{"id":15333,"date":"2020-06-18T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15333"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:13:45","slug":"the-isolation-diaries-volume-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/the-isolation-diaries-volume-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isolation Diaries: volume III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hannah Bushell \u2013 Legal Counsel (and mum of two)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m in my home office. I\u2019ve got a coffee, I\u2019ve made a few calls, I\u2019m drafting a letter. Now what\u2019s missing\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s it, MY CHILDREN ARE NOT IN THE HOUSE!!! The little angels (ahem) are at preschool and nursery. No one\u2019s hair is being pulled, no one is eating play-doh and I\u2019ve got a whole day of work to look forward to. Total. Bliss. Now, on what planet did a full day of work sound more appealing than a beachfront cocktail I hear you cry? I\u2019ll tell you the answer: Planet Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of strange things have happened on Planet Covid, some good, some bad, some ugly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good: <\/strong>I\u2019ve started running as an excuse to get out of the house. Anyone that has spent more than five minutes in my presence knows that exercise is not my friend. I\u2019m more likely to be found in a beer garden than a gym, but seeing as neither is currently an option, having a (very brief) jog outside seems like a better idea than staring at the same four walls for the twelfth week in a row. Granted, my self-esteem may have hit an all time low when the four-year-old asked why I was wearing Daddy\u2019s clothes pre-run this morning. Charming. I do own gym clothes; they\u2019ve just been in a storage box since I got married in 2014. Don\u2019t judge\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad:<\/strong> I miss the office environment. Working on your own just isn\u2019t wall-to-wall fun for me! Although being able to put a wash on in between phone calls, and only having to get dressed from the waist up is a definite plus, there are lots of things I miss about going to work in the morning and chatting to colleagues over a coffee. The level of conversation from my two children isn\u2019t up to much – their use of the English language is limited and if I have to pretend to be a sea witch or snowman one more time, I think I\u2019m going to lose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ugly:<\/strong> Where do I start\u2026 maybe with the Babybell wax mushed into my cream carpet? The hamster that my husband panic bought just before lockdown that keeps biting people through its cage? Or with my heinous roots which mean I look like a yellow streaked badger? Bad hair during this pandemic has proved to be my biggest challenge along with desperately trying to stop the embarrassing speeches from my kids across the fence. Today my daughter shouted \u201cWHY IS THE LADY NEXT DOOR SO OLD?\u201d. I did what any respecting parent would do: hid in the shed until it blew over (well, until Judith next door went inside). Fingers crossed the sound of my other child making pig noises drowned it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully with each nursery day, Planet Covid is losing its grip and we\u2019re slowly drifting back to Earth. Who knows, in my next update I might have been into a cafe and maybe to the hairdresser? Dream big everyone! At least the football has started again so my husband has a smile on his face, and I can hide upstairs with the clich\u00e9 lockdown banana bread I made yesterday. Damn it, Planet Covid may be hanging around a little longer yet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch up with volume I<\/a> and volume II<\/a> of Hannah’s blog series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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