{"id":1105,"date":"2020-09-18T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T22:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T22:14:12","slug":"18th-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/09\/18th-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"18th September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-7acea447-2c55-43e2-9891-2520bc6001c3\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0Good<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Lost in the woods \/ Country Roads \/ There she goes<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Terminator: Dark fate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A reasonably standard Friday overall. There have been several colleges and schools affected by COVID-19 cases, including B&#8217;s school, but so far no direct impact on us. Meanwhile nationally the talk is of a two week &#8220;circuit breaker&#8221; (don&#8217;t call it a lockdown!) to try to get the rising numbers back under control (although around 15% of the UK population is already under additional local restrictions of some sort).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be a bit more cheery, after her online session with Explore this week, F decided that the online learning games they had were no good (she says the animations are no good, and the questions and\/or answers are sometimes wrong). So F decided to build her own online learning games using the <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\">Scratch<\/a> programming language &#8211; she has big plans for a full set of animal themed games covering all areas of the curriculum, but is currently working on &#8220;Spelling Shark&#8217;s Memorising Mouse&#8221; spelling game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"462\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-22.58.30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1107\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-22.58.30.png 462w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-22.58.30-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>F is showing the same kind of tendencies as me and B when it comes to programming &#8211; by which I mean once she is working on a problem it&#8217;s hard to drag her away  &#8211; we were almost late for school this morning as she tried to fix something!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weather this week has been so nice, and we enjoyed our Saturday morning walk at Charlecote so much last week, we thought we&#8217;d better book another National Trust property for a walk first thing tomorrow &#8211; so we are booked in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/packwood-house\">Packwood House<\/a> at 9am (and have an order for breakfast pastries in at <a href=\"http:\/\/haddieandtrilby.com\/\">Haddie and Trilby<\/a> as well &#8211; so hopefully we can pick those up on the way.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Heavenly Blue continues to bloom and even this late in the year is attracting bees (picture by D).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1108\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-1024x820.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-768x615.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-1536x1231.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b-800x641.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ab77334e-0475-415d-9e0d-b7b832dbd26b.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0Good Listening to:\u00a0Lost in the woods \/ Country Roads \/ There she goes Watching:\u00a0Terminator: Dark fate A reasonably standard Friday overall. 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