Corona Virus

I hate my hair getting over the top of my ears even, so I'm going to buy some clippers online and buzz myself at number 3. Have already shaved off my 20 year old beard, health hazard see? Children were quite discomobulated, they'd ever seen my face before.

Leaf passed MOT recently, Civic is up late August. Hopefully there'll be a garage open before then....but it would be great if the government announced a temporary amnesty.

There go the schools.

Funny Al's beard going. I stop shaving the day I arrived here (week last Sunday). I'm not so hirsute, but just wanted to see how long it got before I embarked on a plane to go home. It could be by my knees at this rate.

Daughter is disraught at school closing. She is a good student; not particularly clever but tries her best. She will miss the interaction and the challenge. Pity I am not home to help her. Any suggestions for on-line learning for Year 10?

Thinking about the cars but I think the first car due an MoT and service is the Daihatsu in June but it is not being driven at the moment anyway. So I think that I will SORN it and worry about MoT and insurance when I get home or the country opens for business again.

The UK ambassador to Israel is in 14 day self-isolation as is one my acquaintances who is Israeli, but works at the Embassy. They both came into contact with a known virus carrier about a week ago... Just waiting for someone I know well to come down with it.

Also discovering the effect of the virus on people who haven't got it. A friend's sister has a condition which requires a short term dose of tablets which can damage the body if taken for too long, and then surgery. She was meant to have an operation next week, but has been told it's off and 'keep taking the tablets'. If she dies, she won't be in the virus statistics but a person would have died as a direct result of the virus. Horrible.

After several days of taking dad to medical appointments each day I am looking forward to day tomorrow I can spend without going anywhere. But the weather is poor so I can't even sit on the balcony, I cleaned so beautifully earlier in the week. I'll have to do some work...

My Year 7 daughter is the same.  She came home in tears last night.  She absolutely adores her new school, after hating the previous one (well, the other children attending it, mainly).  Again, not hugely gifted but so conscientious and such a hard worker.  It would be tragic if this knocks it out of her.  Our school is well set up for distance learning and will be briefing the children on what will happen in the coming weeks, and how, over the next 2 days before closure.  My indolent older son (Year 10) just thinks it's a massive laugh and imagines he's going to be putting his feet up until September.  Wrong.  He has a very mild asthma diagnosis and thinks that is reason for him to self-isolate for 3 months at least.  Well, they'll be home for at least a month now, let's see how much cabin fever he gets.  Incredible how different 2 children from the same place can be.

You look like someone. Most probably yourself of course. But you know what I mean.

A younger Timothy West maybe.

Had you just emerged from a broom cupboard?