I have been recording our Lockdown time in our diary to help us look back at this crazy time, how it was? what happened? how did we feel? what did we do? With the kids and Boo at home dealing with Homeschooling and home life, and me who is at work as a key worker, observing people and trying to help.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 7+8

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 7+8

With Lockdown in full force I have been writing a diary of what’s been happening, our thoughts, what we’ve been doing etc as a way of looking back in years to come and thinking what it was like, how we got on etc. This is week 7 and 8 as I’ve have combined both weeks together this time, mainly because I’ve been busy but also because not a lot has been happening.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 6

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 6

Our weekly review of what’s been happening in Lockdown for us, its a diary so in months and years to come we can look back and what we were doing and whats our thoughts, The family is Lockdown with Boo only able to venture out for a small amount of the time, where I’m a key worker, dealing with the public and venturing out there.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 5

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 5

This is the weekly diary of our lockdown experiences that i am doing so we can look back in months and years to come to see what happened and how we were feeling, its such a different time and experiences for us all. This weeks big change was the kids were back on there home schooling.… View Post

Family Games Night

Family Games Night

Over the years the kids have been brought up on Family Games Night and having a variety of board games, puzzles, family games in the house, often they are learning-based ones, working up to more fun and mess around ones, these have often been bought at Xmas and birthday, or when we have looked for bargains, there also something that the kids tend to look at shops to swat up what they want.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 4

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 4

I’m documenting our lockdown weeks so in the future we can look back and know what happened, and what we were doing during this time as our memories can get a bit lost looking back, so this week is the 4th week we are on lockdown, I’m still a key worker, whereas the rest of the family are at home.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 3

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 3

This is the continuation of the diary of our lockdown, with the kids and Boo at home, myself at work serving the elderly, dependant and people who just need some shopping. This week was a little calmer as everyone is seemingly settling down into this, with also it being Easter and lovely weather.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 2

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 2

So we complete week 2 of COVID 19 lockdown, as I recap this week ill try not to rant about people too much this week, however, there has more ongoings with work. The others though have been staying at home with the exception of boo who managed to escape for a couple of hours!… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 1

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | week 1

With everything that has happened in the last month, this week was the first of Lockdown so I thought I would keep a rough diary of what’s going on. I can hopefully look back in time and think wow, remember all that! What happened?! why? etc…with this potentially going on for a while it will be difficult to remember everything.… View Post

When do you think about your kid’s …

When do you think about your kid’s Careers?

In life, we all want what’s best for our kids, and will be happy as long as they are happy, whether it be in career, life, family, hobbies whatever…But with our 4 kids growing up and them being three different age groups I ponder to myself when and what do I think their careers will be? can I see it in them now?… View Post

Valentines 2020!

Valentines 2020!

This year’s valentines like other things recently is a bit disjointed and slightly delayed, but like every other year it’s just Boo and i at home as we have the kiddies. This means we have focused on what we are going to eat together, this is our only expense as we have decided not to buy presents, cards gifts etc…to save money, ultimately we have a Wedding Anniversary that’s much more important, but we wanted to see what meals we can do at home for it.… View Post