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Life In Lockdown - Day 74 & 75
I awoke on Tuesday (day 74) to yet another glorious day. At just after 6am, I was giving the revamped chests of drawers another coat of varnish in the garden before my daily Wii Fit session and a blog...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 76 & 77
Thursday (day 76) was another overcast, damp and chilly day. When I woke at 6.30am I had to double-check the time, so used to the bedroom being bathed in sunlight, the dark fooled me into thinking it...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 78 & 79
Every weekday morning I wake Jon up with a mug of tea, delivered to the bedside. On weekends he tells me to stay in bed so he can return the favour but, more often than not, I'm awake first and it...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 80 & 81
Lockdown day 80! How on earth did that happen? After my first Wii Fit workout of the week and a blog catch-up, Jon joined me for our fruit & yoghurt breakfast and, as is usual, we had the BBC news...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 82 & 83
Yesterday (day 82) was the furthest we've been for months when we drove twelve miles to the outskirts of Wolverhampton to visit the spectacular Wightwick Manor.Wightwick (pronounced wittick) was gifted...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 84 & 85
When I went into the kitchen on Friday morning (day 84) I did a double-take. Unbeknown to me, Jon had got up in the night and had applied the first coat of paint to the walls. What a difference! The...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 86 & 87
On Saturday night the sky turned a dramatic shade of grey and I rushed outside to take a photo. Within minutes, the thunder & lightning started, the cats dashed inside, snuggled next to Jon on the...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 88 & 89
I woke on Tuesday morning (day 88) to find Frank snuggled up in bed next to Jon, he must have been feeling better. The lads and I went outside and they sniffed around the garden for signs of visiting...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 90 & 91
On Thursday (day 90) I was awoken in the early hours by the sound of the rain beating against the window, despite Stephen's insistence that I get up, I stayed in bed until 6am. When I opened the door...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 92 & 93
On Saturday I was awake first (well, technically it was Stephen who'd been running up and down the bed since before 5am). Miraculously, it was a sunny start to the day so I loaded the washing machine,...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 94 & 95
On Monday (day 94) after my daily Wii Fit session and our fruit & yoghurt breakfast we left the confines of Stonecroft for an adventure. I'd managed to book us in to visit Packwood, a Tudor mansion...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 96 & 97
It was already nudging 20°C when I got up shortly before 6am on Wednesday morning (day 96). The lads & I had a stroll around the garden and discovered that Jacob was already up and waiting for...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 98 & 99
Unable to get comfortable, at 3am on Friday morning Jon decamped to the spare bedroom accompanied by Frank. I stayed in our bed with Stephen Squirrel who, at 5am, decided it was time for me to get up....
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One Hundred (and 101) Days of Solitude
When I called the blog post published on 2nd April Love in A Time of Corona, little did I know that I'd be bastardising the title of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's other masterpiece three months later. For...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 102 & 103
Tuesday morning (day 102) was so dark and dreary that it was nearly 7am before I woke up. After my Wii Fit session, I sat at the PC catching up with comments wrapped up in a cardi as I'd left the front...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 104 & 105
On Thursday (day 104) I was up just after 6am. I caught up with blog comments, did my daily Wii Fit and took a mug of tea upstairs to Jon. The weather couldn't seem to decide what to do. After a fairly...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 106 &107
I was astounded to look over at the alarm clock on Saturday (day 106) and discover that it was after 8am, no wonder the cats were pacing up and down the bed like caged tigers. I blame Huey Morgan for...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 108 & 109
It was a lovely sunny start to Monday (day 108) when I got up at 6.15am, I fed the lads, caught up with the blog world and did my Wii Fit session but by the time I'd taken a mug of tea up to Jon the...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 110 & 111
The rain that arrived at 11am on Tuesday morning was still bucketing down at 6am on Wednesday morning (day 110), Stephen dashed outside and sat watching the mice in the rockery for an hour while Frank...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 112 & 113
It was gloriously sunny when I got up at 6.30am on Friday morning (day 112), after my Wii Fit session I went online and booked another National Trust slot and bought something fabulous that had just...
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