Weird Science

One of the plus sides of being in isolation, is that I have had time to watch things I had recorded but never got around to watching. Weird Science was one. I am sure that I had watched most of it when younger, but I honestly do not think that I had watched it all.  

I see no point in showing this to my children who have grown up in a different time to me, but my wife and I enjoyed the film. By the standards of today, it has a predictable plot, but at the time, this was an awesome film. Basically, if you grew up during the 1980’s, you will probably appreciate the film. I am very glad that I have finally got round to watching it, but I do wonder what happened to the grandparents! 

Happy Valley

I am feeling a bit better than yesterday, but still feel awful. I have a lot more sympathy for my son who has had to isolate twice, but I have the company of my wife while he had none. 

Yesterday my wife and I watched all of Happy Valley which was the plus side of feeling so unwell. Although I do feel sorry for myself, I could be worse, one of the doctors where I work got COVID before me and she is short of breath going up the stairs.

Also, to make me feel even more down, Arsenal lost yesterday. This morning, I watched the highlights of the expected loss to the Team That Rhymes With City. I think it is unfair to blame just Takehiro Tomiyasu for the first goal as there was a header which had been lost first, but it was interesting to see that they would play Route One Football when needed and the highlights did not show Arsenal doing the same. 

Anyway, we have two children again today. My daughter was at a sleepover on Tuesday night and did not get home till the afternoon and then was out again in the evening. My son made a great meal last night from Gousto but Leia has found it very stressful as she knows we are locked away and keeps whining at our door to let her in. This happens less when both children are about but is more of an issue if there is just one child here. I feel sorry that the half term week which we had hoped to spend time with them has now resulted in them looking after us. We will make it up to them later.

Hopefully I will be feeling a bit better tomorrow. That and I hope we beat Aston Villa on Saturday when we visit the home of our former manager, Unai Emery.   

Down with the plague

I tested positive today to the plague.  The bright side of this is that I have spent Valentines day with my wife, the downside for her is that she has spent it with me.  While unwell, I have been well enough to work from home, something which has meant that she is not able to rest as much as she would like.

My daughter is out at friends and my son is enjoying his freedom to play his music as loud as he wants downstairs...

The plague (again)

My wife tested positive for the plague last night. She has been out on Friday night to a book club and had been to a work meeting last week as well.

This means that the rest of us are probably going to get it was we went to London yesterday. As you can see, Leia found the Cat Café to be fascinating. My daughter said her being in there would be like a cage fight, which made me laugh and my wife despair! We did not get to spend long in London as we had to return as my wife felt unwell and also because my daughter needed to help a friend so had a great coffee before we left.

The downside of this is that my daughter may have infected her friend, assuming she was not the source of the infection anyway.  I have got back from work. My wife is isolating in her bedroom and the kids have been looking after her. Tomorrow they plan to meet up with friends, so long as they feel well. They say tomorrow is another day, we shall see. 

Staying alive

 I am shattered. I was meant to have CPR training last year, but due to a few reasons I missed it. So today I travelled to Norfolk to have it. Unfortunately I was tired, yesterday was busy and when I got home late, the children, who were beginning their half term holiday, had not taken Leia for her walk. Which meant that my day was even more tiring. Training was tiring but I got some rest on the way back when I charged my car.

Getting back, everyone was kind to me as I also picked up the takeaway order that was our dinner and later 

Anyway, I am both sad and glad after watching Match of the Day as Arsenal dropped two points against Brentford. To be fair, from the highlights, we appear to have been lucky to be a goal ahead as Brentford. They have had a good run and it is surprising that they are not in a better league position. However, the Brentford goal does look offside and we know need Aston Villa to do us a favour tomorrow as our goal difference is not enough and I really fear our mid week game.

PMQ's yesterday

My son found out yesterday that his maths mock exam was to include subjects that he had yet to learn while he was sitting it.  My wife and I disagreed with the usefulness of this, but he did not seem to be too fazed as many in his class had the same issues.  

My daughter did the cooking.  I had intended to do this, but I had some bad news about the holidays I had requested and was not quite in the right frame.  To be honest, she made dinner better than I could so it was great that I was not able to cook!

PMQ's yesterday was quite tame.  The main questions from Starmer were to show unity for the view of the President of Ukraine.  The SNP instead tried to take over the role of the opposition and failed miserably when it came to bringing up the claims of Liz Truss that she was not to blame for the economic crash which took place under her watch.  As Sunak had said when he took office, mistakes had been made.  I did not get to listen/watch it live as I had a meeting when it was on, but I caught up with this on the dog walk that took place later in the day.  

Young and beautiful

My son said his mock exams went okay, by that he said his mock exam was bad for everyone. My daughter is complaining about the attention the wrong type of boys are giving her. However she did have a moment of glee when she took a photo of the bald spot that I had not realised that I had. I have known my hair is thinning at the front, that and coming out of my ears and nose. I had not realised that I had lost hair at the crown of my head, let alone so much. 

Needless to say this was the subject of much mirth in the house. 

Lynn is staying over night today, the children expressing no surprise when I said that she is not a morally pure auntie who wags her finger at them. 

Anyway, I am going to finish this happy day by watching The Last Of Us.