WEEK 51 CORONAVIRUS: PRIMARY ONE, TWO AND THREE RETURN TO SCHOOL

With the infection rate falling and number of people needing hospitalisation there are now plans to start easing restrictions.  It will start with certain years of the primary schools going back, then the older secondary school students who have to do labs and project work.

That means Harriet aged 7 in Primary 3 and Ellie aged 6 in Primary 2  go back today. 

After school preparing focaccia. Ellie is the baker; Harriet is being a pest. 

The lovely rosemary Ellie is chopping is from the garden.

Indy aged 10 in California is to be off as, indeed, are Ish (14) and Alastair (13).

We continue to have Quiz Nights every Sunday using Google Meeting facility.  I do my presentation in the Google Slide Show which is amazingly good, i.e. idiot-proof.

While I try to compose it of questions for the children I also try to include news topics which are important.  This week it was the landing of 'Perseverance' on Mars. Having seen the landing of Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969 I can clearly recall the place and circumstances where we watched it live on TV.  It was in Evanston, Chicago when we lived there.  We did not  own a TV (out of choice).. "Ya don't even have ONE Tv?!!?".... so joined a neighbour in the apartment block.

Apparently the parachute fabric was made by a company in Devon, UK.

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We look forward to restrictions starting the ease.  In the meantime when asked "When?" the answer from all interviewed continues to be: "We will be driven by the data, not the dates."