{"id":1096,"date":"2020-09-16T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:36:55","slug":"16th-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/09\/16th-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"16th September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-7acea447-2c55-43e2-9891-2520bc6001c3\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0OK<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Country Roads \/ Gilmore &amp; Roberts<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Miracle Workers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>First post since the weekend. Since the kids went back to school, and D went back to work, my days have become very routine all of a sudden &#8211; whereas all through lock down it felt there was almost always something that had happened of interest during the day, now it feels like the days are just very &#8220;normal&#8221; with nothing of note happening &#8211; so it barely seems worth posting about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Sunday at Bs school the whole of Year 9 has been asked to stay at home after a Y9 student tested positive for covid-19. The communication from the school was good I thought &#8211; we got an email explaining what had happened and what action the school had taken\/was taking. However, while Y9 students have to stay at home, siblings of Y9 students should still attend school &#8211; I can see the logic (you only isolate the direct contacts of the confirmed case not the &#8220;contacts of contacts&#8221;) but it feels like this means it is only a matter of time before there are more cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D was working at home today &#8211; I was happy to have the company, and D was happy to be able to spend a day without having to put a mask on \ud83d\ude42 Unfortunately I had a rather busy afternoon with lots of calls, so I wasn&#8217;t the most sociable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This evening we had our first choir sectional (baritones) rehearsal of the new season. This was on zoom, but was quite good fun &#8211; the first song is an arrangement of &#8220;Take me home, country roads&#8221; . A group of six had got together in a garden (socially distanced obviously) to join the Zoom call and it looked like that worked well &#8211; so I think we&#8217;ll have some more &#8220;small groups&#8221; together through the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the garden a plant (Calyopteris x Clandonensis &#8216;Heavenly Blue&#8217; &#8211; aka Bluebeard) that Mum bought us in remembrance of Dad is coming into bloom &#8211; it&#8217;s a lovely plant with slightly silvered leaves and small blue flowers. It was really nice to see it out this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6481-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1098\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6481-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?attachment_id=1098#main\" class=\"wp-image-1098\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6481-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6481-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_6481-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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It was a great set, and recommended if you are looking for a nice mix of modern folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0OK Listening to:\u00a0Country Roads \/ Gilmore &amp; Roberts Watching:\u00a0Miracle Workers First post since the weekend. Since the kids went back to school, and D went back to work, my days have become very routine all of a sudden &#8211; whereas all through lock down it felt there was almost always something that had happened of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[19,31],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-covid19","tag-easing_lockdown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}