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April 5, 2020 helenlouisechandler

Guest blog: William in lockdown

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Home Sweet Home? – Day Ten

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Home Sweet Home? – Day 3

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Home Sweet Home? – Day Two

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Home, sweet home? – Day One

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We had the most enormous white cabbage in our @oddboxldn last week. I have already served slaw as a side to quesadillas and tuna lasagne, and on jacket potatoes for lunch, and it's back on the menu again tonight. I have now managed to use approximately 1/3 of The Monster Cabbage. Luckily I adore coleslaw, but is there anything else I can do with it? #slaw #coleslaw #homemade #wastenotwantnot #lockdown
Husband is intercepting the children so I can lock myself away and do some work, but we hadn't reckoned on Henry Cat's pathological jealousy of my laptop. Hard enough trying to corral my brain cells and focus at the moment, without a possessive tabby on my keyboard. #catsofinstagram #tabbycatsofinstagram #jealousofmylaptop #tryingtowork #iamwriting
Beautiful morning for my government approved exercise walk today. This could be a country village. #walthamstowinisolation #walthamstowvillage #springisstillspringing #walthamstowinspring #blossom #tulips
Another day, another bake from the 11yo. Fresh flatbreads for lunch. And I made houmous out of a tin of chickpeas and a jar of roast peppers to go with them. #juniorbaker #homemadeflatbread #storecupboardcooking #loveinthetimeofcorona
I popped the teepee up in the garden, along with the other bits and bobs I have put out for the homeschool play area, and Henry Cat instantly made himself right at home! Both children currently in there playing theoretically educational games on the 11yo's new laptop. #tabbycatsofinstagram #homeschool2020 #loveinthetimeofcorona #thankgodforourgarden
There were some tears today, but some wins as well. Including these lovely #rainbows to go in our window. One of the pieces of work school set for the 11yo was to create a positive propaganda poster, and she came up with this rainbow theme 'We're all in it together. Just two metres apart.' And they both worked on a rainbow collage out of cut up magazines. 🌈🌈🌈 And then at 3.15 I had a mini breakdown and told my WAH husband that he had to take over for a bit as I was broken. Teachers really earn their money! #windowsofwalthamstow #rainbowwindows #stayinghomesaveslives #stayinghome #homeschool2020

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