Coronavirus Lockdown: A mum's view on how to cope Week 8

I must be mad, like actually mad to listen to anything Mr Maker says. Find some circles around the house, bottle tops (plenty of those) loo rolls (same) gin bottle stoppers (well he didn’t actually mention this one but hey we have loads) get all the circles, dip them in paint and stamp with them!

The five year old asked me if we could do this and I thought it seemed like a pretty good idea, so the collection of circles commenced. The next day you cannot even begin to imagine the carnage, I had no idea, it got beyond my control. As you can see by the photo, I had to just go with it, they painted themselves, the paper, the floor, me, the door...

I haven’t been able to get the paints out since for fear of it all going wrong again. We have been mainly sticking to crafting and being out in the garden whilst the sun is out. The two year old has turned into actual Makka Pakka too as I found him outside happily washing a pile of stones with a bowl of water and a sponge.

We had an excellent day celebrating for VE day and a fab front garden party with our neighbours, turns out you can social distance and still have (several) drinks and a good old belly laugh with friends. It was definitely one of the best days we’ve had so far.

Another benefit of the lovely sunshine is the BBQ situation, saves on added mess indoors and the husband does all the cooking. Our amazing friends bought us some meat mops so we could channel our inner Gordon Ramsay and this is a game changer. Everyone should order some, honestly the best BBQ I have ever had. Delicious meat from Andrew Hiscox the butchers too with free delivery, top tip if you’re trying to avoid the shops and the queues, they do a range of lovely cheese, butter and eggs too.

The two year old has a gigantic obsession with ‘burgos’ as a result of all this outside cooking and asked to eat one raw. When this was declined he shouted ‘I WANT BURGOS’ at the top of his voice whilst doing a burgo dance til they were done and put on his plate. Silence for all of five minutes til he noticed the sausages...

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