Clare is working from home today, the boys are working from home, and I'm still off sick following the cataracts operation. They all did the Joe Wicks workout this morning but are now struggling with everyone working at the same time. The boys are doing English exercises, thing one from his school workbook, and thing two from https://www.twinkl.co.uk as he has finished the workbook school sent home. Thing one says he has finished his school workbook but it seems he has skipped a lot as "the teacher said not to do it". It looks to be comprehension type stuff, which a) he needs practice and b) these are the exercises we've got for him from other sources anyway. He is not happy that I'm overriding what he thinks the teacher told him. Why would he have been told not to do this work? I can't think of a good reason that would apply to him specificically that would make it worse for him to do it than not do it. I hope it's that it was something they've not covered yet, or that wasn't suitable for the whole class, or that they'd come back to later. It can't be that the work is beneath his level.
Apart from that it is going ok. We got a load of free coffee from the National Trust, they had to chuck it out as it was at it's sell by date and they're all closed now so no more is being used. There is a freezer full of ice-cream that is going the same way but it might have melted before it got home. So one day soon we might take a trip there and have the run of the place on our own, eating ice-cream.
Clare has spent ages on the phone to work IT support, trying to get onto the VPN to do her work. I think it's a higher cost number, though probably not premium rate. It's a times like this I'm glad we don't have a landline.
We have moved up to number 9 in the world coronavirus ranking according to worldometers1. 9529 cases, 465 people have died with it, and 135 have recovered so far.
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