So Grandson has entered the building hes been isolatting with his mum for the duration , not sure how long its for but he wasnt wanted back at school yet as there primary is quite a large modern eco building that doesnt have the space to have all the kids there at once , so he will probably get his rota days sometime soon . At which point common sense dictates we wont see him again . Though Lincolnshire schools that have opened are already facing problems with staff testing positive for Covid and many have shut again . The kids seem to have no symptoms but are wiping out the teachers and support staff .
The ongoing problem at the moment is that theres also a nasty snot cold virus doing the rounds , so its scaring folks to death , if you have no transport theres no way of getting tested easily or quickly and the GPs have barricaded themselves in and pulled up the drawbridge . I suspect they will never know who has had Covid in rural areas around the country, but there has been no deaths for several days here , but quite a lot of new infections .
Now that a lot of the older folk and disabled are venturing out theres big gaps in the shelves again as they all stock up , seen quite a lot of folks on disabled scooters lugging bags of compost home from the little garage laden up . It seems that in a lot of cases lifes settling back to a new normal just with gloves and masks .
Just hoping the sun breaks out a little later it would be a great day for planting after the rain and ive loads of sprouts and sweetcorn to pop in with grandsons help. I do like the no dig method so much i just lift up the carpet , burn off any weeds remaining and chuck the compost bin contents down pop in the plants then a few organic slug pellets down and mulch with grass clippings . The ~Potatoes are looking really well under much the same method , havent done many potatoes this year , planting much more squash and beans because thats what we use most of plus theyre easy to store and grow , kale and savoy cabbages because thyre another easy crop . If youve lived anywhere for a few years you get to realise what never thrives for you , cauliflowers have never grown here , flea beetle devastates carrots and other root crops plus the grounds like concrete because its an old river bank . this years weird fail is rhubarb but it will recover and appear again at some stage , to much sunshine as it emerged sent it all straight to seed this year despite taking off the seed heads
The school thing is worrying - for many kids its a safe reliable the same place and now it isn't. Goodness knows how they'll catch up
ReplyDeleteMy daughter us struggling to get her eldest to do him homework. He us in secondary school and it will be September before he returns. He needs school and the discipline. It's a hard call! I wish we had rain, fed up with the tiny showers and no real rain.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter's a teacher at a secondary school. She's been advised there'll be no school until September, then she'll have a Year 10 "bubble" - likely ongoing until a vaccine is available.
ReplyDeleteEarlier in the year hubby covered part of the veg garden in black plastic , when he took it off he said how easy it was to dig and all the weeds had died off , he has now moved the plastic to another part of the garden .
ReplyDeleteRhubarb turned to seed very quickly here too. Might have been the hot dry Spring
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