Lockdown 3 – Gav’s School

For four afternoons a week for a month two boys came to our flat for ‘Gav’s School’. During lesson times I could overhear what was going on from the safety of my cupboard/office and it was a joy to hear a six & seven year old get so excited by learning. They learned spelling, maths, telling the time, all sorts of interesting science and nature facts and they made a plasticine stop annimation film. In between every class there was a ten minute break and I joined in pillow fights, hide & seek and ‘home taping is killing music’.

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Lockdown 3 – Mogwai in our living room

Mogwai played an online gig in our living room. It was our first online gig. It was great. We got the screen and projector out for it and hooked up the sound to the stereo. In between each song I clapped and Gav whooped.

the pros of online gigs – no one talked through it, no queue for the bar or toilets, I wore my PJs, no journey home afterwards.
the cons of online gigs – the atmospehere wasn’t as great and it wasn’t as loud as it should be (I’ve got upstairs neighbours so can’t put the sound on as loud as a usual Mogwai concert)

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Glastonbury

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I’m a bit late putting this one up… my favourite Glastonbury for years.

21st May – 1st June

21 May: Foggy on Shetland, it was difficult to see which was a puffin and which was a seagull (Gav kept calling them pigeons)

22 May: Pyjamas and cleaning day followed by a bad choice of film (i’m barred from picking a film for a while)

23 May: Woke up to good news!

24 May: A Very British Eid.

25 May: Gardening Day

26 May: Everyone is angry about Dominic Cummings, Gove says that he’s also gone for a drive to test his eyesight. Does anyone believe that our government is doing a good job?

27 May: Surely NO ONE can still believe that Johnson is a good leader?

28 May: Doctors protest outside Downing Street while the Tory MPs who have shafted them ‘clap for the NHS’. The new ‘Track & Trace’ app is launched, but doesn’t work. Matt Hancock laughs on TV.

29 May: The final Trunk Of Punk from Craig Charles on 6 Music

30 May: A rocket went to space and I didn’t do pilates.

31 May: Sushi!

1 June: Lockown eases. The end of this Corona Diary. The book has run out of pages.

11th – 20th May

11 May: We watched Dirty Dancing and decided that we should practice our dirty dancing moves in case they ever made a follow up film and needed some new stars for the film. We were not feeling Alert, but we tried to Stay Alert.

12 May: Gav had the lockdown blues, Damaged Goods did a mail out about the Rabies Babies record, which was sort of sad because I am really missing having gigs and band practices. We went to bed early and listened to Gideon Coe’s show on 6music.

13 May: Work stuff.

14 May: I had to cycle in to work to take my back up.

15 & 16 May: ill again

17 May: A bit better, did cleaning (of me and the flat) and we tested out the inks for the screenprinted sleeve for the Rabies Babies record.

18 May: Slow internet and social distancing visitors.

19 May: Puffins!

20 May: The contrails are back ruining the sky.

Lockdown Shopping Bingo

How to play:
1. Write a list of things that you would like to buy, things that are usually always in the shops.
2. Go shopping.
3. See how many you can buy off the list.

I played with Gav. We both wrote lists and he went out to the shops. We both scored 8 out of 11 items.

CORONA LOCK DOWN DIARY

Sunday to Wednesday. I had a wobble on Tuesday. I read on Twitter that we are not working from home, we are at home in a crisis, trying to work.
On Wednesday we invented Lockdown Shopping Bingo, which makes shopping more fun.