Tag: lockdown

Lockdown lethargy has peaked –
Lisa: Go and brush your teeth.
Isla: What? All of them?

Lisa: I want cake.
Isla: I could make one and call it Food Tech?

She’ll go far, that kid.

What do my freezer and my wardrobe have in common?
They’re both full but I can’t find anything I like inside.

Lisa: I can’t bear seeing your sister’s bedroom in that state!
Eva: I can help with that.
Lisa: Oh, thank you. That’s kind.
Eva: ( Shuts Isla’s bedroom door) There.

Lisa: What are you doing with my handbag?
Isla: I’m doing a rubbing of the leather texture for Art.
Lisa: Put that back, it was expensive. You can use your dad’s forehead.

Glad I installed Life360 to track where the kids are. Sometimes Eva moves from one side of the sofa to the other without checking in.

Home-school has taken an unexpected turn –
Isla: I’ve finished my Art. Do you want to see some frottage?

We’re at the –
Kids: Can we cut our own hair?
Lisa: Yeah, why not?
Stage of lockdown.

John: You know the world’s gone mad when you can only visit the rubbish tip ‘By Appointment’.

Lisa: Get on with tidying your bedroom. At this rate it will take you days!
Eva: And that’s a problem because…?

She makes a good point.

Bad news: The drawstring on my exercise joggers has come out.
Good news: That’s OK, because I’m never going to need to tighten them again.

John: Tuesday – the day excitement and anxiety levels peak. I have to try to work out which bins the Council are taking!