Archives for March 2020

Stepping through the doorway.

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 31 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 31 March 2020

Lockdown means coffee

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 31 March 2020

Making sure the box hedge stays nice and clean!

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 29 March 2020

> Cutlery on the table. Aiddy, 2020

I did warn you.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 29 March 2020

Doing a lot of Skype recently.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

A ride with Finn. Our exercise for the day...

> You should only leave the house for very limited purposes: > * shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible. > * one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household. > * any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid or escape risk of injury or harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person. > * travelling for work purposes, but only where you cannot work from home. > >These reasons are exceptions - even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household. > >These measures must be followed by everyone.

Guidance: Staying at home and away from others (social distancing), UK Government Cabinet Office, Published 23 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

Following the advice for fresh air and exercise every day.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

After the wood came the lawn. Helping keep nature at bay for our lovely neighbours.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

> Bath Mat at Rest, Aiddy, 2020.

Get ready for more abstract object studies of stuff around the home. A lot more.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

More in the Working-from-Garden series.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 28 March 2020

The queue at Waitrose with 4m spacing protocol. Shopping success with supplies for us and 4 other folks who are advised to stay home.

Posted by Fay on Sat 28 March 2020

An illustration for working backwards training for the team. Working from home means a lack of conference rooms to illustrate the concept of leaving an empty chair to represent the customer.

Posted by Aiddy on Thu 26 March 2020

Weather is nice, so working from garden rather than working from home.

Posted by Aiddy on Thu 26 March 2020

In the UK, today is day 53. 8,077 cases, 422 deaths. Twelve days since I was last in the office. Four days since the schools shut. Six days since H came home from university. One day since the government said "shutdown".

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 24 March 2020

We had some wild lawn turf left over, so we added a patch in the front.

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 23 March 2020

Privilege comes in many forms. Today, it is being able to work from home. Even though the various gremlins in the VPN'd internet connection conspired to make that harder than usual.

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 23 March 2020

Awesome skies for plane spotting today. Very, very few planes to spot.

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 23 March 2020

H. Splitting wood for Doug and Susie.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 22 March 2020

A stroll rather than a walk.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 22 March 2020

The bitter-sweet moment of passing your exams without taking your exams.

There's a book all about "when" that advises against endings like this.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 22 March 2020

The boys experimenting with coping strategies today. It's (very) early days, but I think they may have this one sorted.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 22 March 2020

Fay, Julia, Jessica. Awesome mums. Thank you!

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 22 March 2020

First in a long running championship. Fay won the first round.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 21 March 2020

Finished a book all about timing. Well timed.

Posted by Aiddy on Sat 21 March 2020

There is something wrong with this. Very wrong.

Posted by Aiddy on Wed 18 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 17 March 2020

There might be space for a comma somewhere in "Ewok watching".

Posted by Aiddy on Tue 17 March 2020

Three views over three days. Empty space. Increased social distances.

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 16 March 2020

Tidying. Fay found these. One of us had more hair then.

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 16 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 16 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Mon 16 March 2020

A little project for a wet Sunday. RFID tagged cassette tapes trigger playback of songs, albums or playlists via mopidy on a Raspberry PI through NwAvGuy's oDAC and a BOSE Soundlink II.

> NwAvGuy: The Audio Genius Who Vanished

In IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb 2014.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

H came home for the weekend to catch up with friends, eat eggs...

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

A gathering. Not a party.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

The water meadows doing what they do. Again.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

Dog walk number N in an ∞ series.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

Yogi is NOT happy about the thought of self-isolation.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

I don't think we'll be going.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

There's a low-frequency pattern to these types of walks.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

"They're more muddy than mine" said Yogi.

"That's from winning in the quarter-final" said Ewok.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

From which I learnt that there are two styles of 20's fancy dress. Upper class and me.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

Comfort level++

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

A glimpse of the snapchat "my morning view is better than your's" battle between H and I. H usually wins.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

A towel is always useful after a wet ride to the station. Keeps the seat dry for future passengers. Thanks Douglas.

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020

Posted by Aiddy on Sun 15 March 2020