Here we are at the start of Week 10 of lockdown, on another glorious sunny spring day here in England.
Emma attended a very successful birthday party on Friday evening. There is a pub up the street from us that specializes in homemade pizza which does make-your-own pizzas-at-home every Friday night. The birthday girl and her mother cycled to our house and dropped on our doorstep two balls of dough, pizza sauce, and cheese, as well as a piece of birthday cake. There were seven girls who were invited and all seven got the same ingredients. The girls met on Zoom at 6 pm and had a virtual pizza-making party, which turned out to be a lot of fun. And the pizza was really delicious, too.
So that's a birthday party for a nine-year-old in the age of Covid-19. Emma is still hopeful that her birthday might include a sleepover. We'll see.
As usual we went for a walk this weekend, this time a bit further afield now that some restrictions have been eased. We drove about 30 minutes away to Thetford Forest, "the largest lowland pine forest in Britain." It was planted just after WWI, as a way of increasing timber supplies and providing employment opportunities in poor rural areas. It is large -- 47,000 acres -- and it's quite a different landscape for England, which is lacking in large forests. It made for a great day out.
It's come to my attention that people are trying to make comments which are not being posted. Blogger is an older blogging platform and is not as user-friendly as it could be. At Richard's suggestion I've disabled the comments section. If you have a comment you can just email it to me personally. I'd love to read it!
Emma attended a very successful birthday party on Friday evening. There is a pub up the street from us that specializes in homemade pizza which does make-your-own pizzas-at-home every Friday night. The birthday girl and her mother cycled to our house and dropped on our doorstep two balls of dough, pizza sauce, and cheese, as well as a piece of birthday cake. There were seven girls who were invited and all seven got the same ingredients. The girls met on Zoom at 6 pm and had a virtual pizza-making party, which turned out to be a lot of fun. And the pizza was really delicious, too.
So that's a birthday party for a nine-year-old in the age of Covid-19. Emma is still hopeful that her birthday might include a sleepover. We'll see.
As usual we went for a walk this weekend, this time a bit further afield now that some restrictions have been eased. We drove about 30 minutes away to Thetford Forest, "the largest lowland pine forest in Britain." It was planted just after WWI, as a way of increasing timber supplies and providing employment opportunities in poor rural areas. It is large -- 47,000 acres -- and it's quite a different landscape for England, which is lacking in large forests. It made for a great day out.
It's come to my attention that people are trying to make comments which are not being posted. Blogger is an older blogging platform and is not as user-friendly as it could be. At Richard's suggestion I've disabled the comments section. If you have a comment you can just email it to me personally. I'd love to read it!
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