Social Distancing Socially....

These are strange times indeed. Working from home or not working at all... eating in all of the time. Fighting off boredom, panic, fear... As an extrovert social distancing is terrifying! So what can we do?

Well strange times require strange measures so here's the plan!

Make a daily schedule. Here's what mine looks like:

8:30am Socially distanced walk through ravine with neighbour/friends. We chat, watch squirrels chase each other, try not to face-plant in the mud on the embankment and make our way around the hood all the while maintaining our distance from each other.

9:30 am Breakfast and phone calls. I have elderly parents who require checking up on. So I call George and Effie and find out what's on tap for dinner and find out how my aunts/uncles are doing and then I'm told off for not feeding my son properly... the usual.

10:00 am I trek upstairs to the "office" which I share with my husband who is stressed to the gills and I remind him to use his "Breathe App" which is brilliant BTW. Here's the link:
it's a new thing - share work space with him. It is unusual and won't last. I claim the kitchen table for myself. We each now have our own offices: one on each floor respectively.

11:30 Make and each lunch

12:00 Go for a cycle into valley and through hood (if not too cold or raining)

1:00 Stretch

1:20 Laundry

2:30 Email/Blog again

3:30 socially distanced walk

4:30 tutor online

5:30 make dinner

6:15 eat it

6:30 watch news - Ewww

9pm Crash - why am I going to be sooooooooo early???????

REPEAT

The only variables are - binge Netflix instead of news and walking twice a day seems to be my go to.

Boredom has been kept at bay but only just....

What ru going to keep it together?

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