And we have reached the weekend and it's Happy Stitch Day...626...so it's June the 26th and Stitch is experiment 626...make sense now?! Sorry just had to start with a bit of Disney geekness!
It was a simple day with a steady start and then it was time to take Molly to her guitar lesson, but today it was her turn to drive. We are making the most of whatever opportunities we get to let her drive and yet again she did amazingly, both there and back. While Molly 'rocked out' at her guitar lesson we partook of a drive thru' coffee and put the world to rights. We are currently reading the Laura Dodsworth book 'A State of Fear' which is both interesting and at the same time rather scary and disturbing.
After a quick spot of lunch Simon and I spent the rest of the day in the garage! We had a move around of the cupboards that we'd built and once we had settled on a position for them we attached them to the wall to keep them secure. We also put up some brackets ready for shelves as well as attaching a section of the old shelving unit to the wall as this makes an ideal work bench and somewhere for Simon to house his tools and vice. We were then able to start putting things 'away'; finding new ways to store things; housing things in boxes to keep them clean; making sure we prioritised where things went for ease of access and by 6pm we decided to stop. We still have lots to do and there was no way it was all going to get completed today...wonder what we will be doing tomorrow?!
And then the big news of the day is that the health secretary Matt Hancock has resigned following photos and video of him getting frisky with a colleague. He is a married man with three children, the woman he was caught with is also a married woman and to be honest what they get up to is their business...I don't agree with it but I accept that this is what happens and how they handle it is up to them. Personally, I think it's bang out of order and I hope his wife kicks him out and makes him pay for it. But to be caught up close and personal with a work colleague while telling the rest of the UK to keep your distance, don't hug anyone, don't even be in the same room as your loved ones is quite simply hypocritical and makes a mockery of what we were (and are) being asked to do. We were told hugging those we care about could kill them yet he was 'hugging' someone not in his household while we had people in care homes not able to see their relatives let alone hug them.
I remember going back to work last June and seeing my work colleagues for the first time in months and who I have known for a lot of years and are friends as much as they are colleagues and we could not give each other a hug or even a friendly pat on the shoulder. I remember trying to keep our distance from each other as much as possible and giving each other space as we went in and out of rooms. I remember inviting the children who were leaving us for big school to come and visit us. We had to meet them outdoors in small groups and each child and parent (we only allowed one parent) had to be sat 'socially distanced' from each other and from us as staff. The staff were all sat 'socially distanced' from each other and as we handed out leavers gifts and chatted with each child and parent we had to stand back and were not able to shake a parents hand or give a child a cuddle. These were children who we'd looked after for up to two years, who we had formed a bond with and we could not give them a cuddle to say goodbye...it was heartbreaking. Yet if you're someone in goverment you can snog your work colleague - double standards would be an understatement!
See you tomorrow.
xx
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