{"id":465,"date":"2020-04-29T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:16:54","slug":"29th-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/04\/29th-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"29th April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>&nbsp;OK<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ptxofficial.com\/home\">Pentatonix<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:&nbsp;The Great British Sewing Bee<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought I woke up reasonably early (well &#8211;  before 8!) this morning, but D had been up long enough for the cup of tea she&#8217;d made me to be only luke warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids did some cooking today &#8211; bacon sandwiches for lunch and then B made macaroni cheese for tea (with a little help from me). Wednesday is a busy work day for me so didn&#8217;t see as much of everyone else today, especially during the afternoon, but F did some school work (although with less enthusiasm today) and B seems to have settled into a reasonable rhythm with his school work and is getting on with things and keeping on top of everything as far as we can tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both D and I got deliveries today relating to our respective obsessions (I can&#8217;t have enough electronic bits and pieces, and she can&#8217;t have enough stationery). I also got what I assume will be my last birthday present of the year &#8211; a linen bread basket\/keeper from M, L, B &amp; Z &#8211; I just need to bake some bread to put in it (so I&#8217;ve just mixed up some sourdough starter now &#8211; I&#8217;ll bake tomorrow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-800x1067.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Image-from-iOS-9-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also a delivery for the kids today &#8211; we ordered a new swing &amp; climbing set for the <s>library<\/s> garden (as the swing we have is really a bit tired and too small for both of them). I&#8217;m know F will love it and I hope it will be big enough for B as well. I think it might have to wait until the weekend to put it up though (although not sure F can wait that long).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the evening choir for me and D &amp; the kids did a quiz with some of the family on Zoom &#8211; although our kids are obviously hard quiz masters since the top score was 16 out of 30! After the quiz finished both the kids got a bit upset (for no real reason as far as we could make out) &#8211; I guess just the excitement combined with disappointment when it finished perhaps tinged with sadness at not seeing their cousins, aunts and uncles in real life. F got upset again later when it was time to sleep and worked herself into a real state taking ages to get to sleep \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2016\/10\/illustrated-library-26\/\">Polly Faber and Clara Vuillamy&#8217;s stories about Mango and Bambang (a little girl and her tapir) have long been a favourite in our house<\/a> and a few days ago Polly Faber published <a href=\"https:\/\/pollyfaber.com\/mango-and-bambang-in-lockdown-tapir\/\">a special &#8220;lockdown&#8221; story about the characters<\/a> on her website. F was inspired to draw some illustrations and Polly added them into the story which is lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pollyfaber.com\/mango-and-bambang-in-lockdown-tapir\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screenshot_20200428-173321.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screenshot_20200428-173321.png 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/screenshot_20200428-173321-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:&nbsp;OK Listening to:&nbsp;Pentatonix Watching:&nbsp;The Great British Sewing Bee Thought I woke up reasonably early (well &#8211; before 8!) this morning, but D had been up long enough for the cup of tea she&#8217;d made me to be only luke warm. 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