{"id":688,"date":"2020-06-19T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T23:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T23:32:53","slug":"19th-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/2020\/06\/19th-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"19th June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Feeling:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tired but OK<\/li><li><strong>Listening to:<\/strong>\u00a0Happy music<\/li><li><strong>Watching<\/strong>:\u00a0Vagrant Queen (until I fell asleep)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is (I think) the 90th day I&#8217;ve written a post since I started writing about our experience of quarantine (initially) and then lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was up early (6:30) to get some work done before a meeting at 10. No school for F today because they close the school to deep-clean on a Friday. She had her Friday morning session with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrscteachesme.com\">Liz<\/a> which seemed to go well as always (although I didn&#8217;t hear it as I was in my meeting at the same time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I&#8217;d done with my meeting I found it more difficult to settle to work for the rest of the morning (which caused a bit of friction with D as I was looking for distractions while she was trying to work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At lunchtime I got some bread going ready for a planned picnic with my Mum tomorrow. We&#8217;ll still be socially distancing (Mum is part of a bubble with E and family as they live 5 minutes walk away from each other), but it will be lovely to see her and for the kids and D to see her &#8211; and hopefully have a nice walk in the countryside and a picnic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-689\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5952-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Picnic baguettes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>B had been planning to make a lemon meringue tart all week, and so with his schoolwork all done by lunchtime he decided he should make it this afternoon &#8211; his first attempt (as far as I know) at pastry. He had a Mary Berry recipe (I have to admit I&#8217;m not that keen on her recipes &#8211; they always seem a little off to me) and started well getting the pastry together &#8211; getting the flour and butter to breadcrumbs in the food processor without any help. But after adding the sugar and eggs it all went a bit wrong (I think it was probably a mistake to carry on with the food processor when adding the liquid to be honest &#8211; mixing by hand would have been the safer bet) &#8211; and ended up with a past instead of the promised (by the recipe) ball of dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I was better at helping B at these moments rather than just taking over &#8211; but whatever my failings at teaching I did manage to rescue the pastry and we got a reasonable ball of dough to chill for a bit. It was still incredibly delicate when it came to roll it out &#8211; and again I had to help and we ended up doing a bit of patching once it was in the tart case &#8211; but it went better than I expected to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the recipe B got on with pretty well &#8211; although he needed reassurance from me several times he was able to make the lemon filling and the meringue pretty much by himself (he was remarkably patient while zesting 6 lemons which seemed to take hours!), and the result was pretty damn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5953-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>B isn&#8217;t the tidiest of cooks, and I felt like I spent the whole afternoon tidying up after him &#8211; but he did show willing and he&#8217;s getting better at doing these things for himself, or at least realising that he does need to wash things up or put them in the dishwasher!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was trying to work alongside all the cooking, but my back was aching and I decided to stop a bit early and rest it a bit. We ate late (because of the ongoing lemon meringue tart baking) and after the kids were in bed I pretty quickly nodded off on the sofa and didn&#8217;t wake until after 10pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need to be up reasonably early tomorrow to pick up some bakery treats before we head over to Mum&#8217;s, so time to sleep (again) now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay safe, stay strong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling:\u00a0 Tired but OK Listening to:\u00a0Happy music Watching:\u00a0Vagrant Queen (until I fell asleep) This is (I think) the 90th day I&#8217;ve written a post since I started writing about our experience of quarantine (initially) and then lockdown. I was up early (6:30) to get some work done before a meeting at 10. 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