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February 2020: month in review

February disappeared in the blink of an eye!
Family: lots of wider family events including a christening for my cousin’s son, and my niece and nephew stayed over for 2 nights during half term. We had a family photo shoot with Mum and Dad and all their grandchildren which was lovely (here are my three looking almost angelic)

Work: completely unexpectedly, I now have 7 jobs! The school where I invigilate exams needed a temporary food technician so I have been enjoying a new experience! Two days after that, one of the schools where I clerk asked me to do some admin office work as I did for them last summer. Busy, busy me!

Days out: oh dear. Apart from the trip to Fleet for the photos and to Chinnor for the christening, we haven’t really been anywhere 🙁 Our weekends have been spent catching up with chores and doing the kids’ homework!
Reviews: huge excitement for Funatic Foam fun at bathtime and UniVerse collectable unicorn surprises.

Books: I managed to equal last month’s total! Click on any of the book covers to read my review:

Food: no experiments or new recipes (except for my winter veg soup which I actually made before Christmas) but I have made my chickpea dhal again as I was craving it.

March 2020: month in review

So January lasted forever, February disappeared in an instant. And March changed the world completely!
Family: excitement at the start of the month as Chris got a new job, but then panic at the end of the month as we try to make sure it is going ahead in May. The biggest change to family life was when schools shut on 20th March and we began home learning.
Work: the month started out quite frantic for me in terms of all my jobs but my two most recent temporary jobs finished when the schools closed. My clerking jobs and my blog are continuing obviously but there will be no exam invigilating this year which makes me sad for all the effort of the staff and children in Year 11.
Days out: nothing! We are home and staying there! Of course, now I bitterly regret that we didn’t go out at the start of the month!
Reviews: the kids got involved in British Science Week with some fun sets from Learning Resources UK.

I enjoyed experimenting with flavours using Power Pods from The Spice Pioneer.

We got in the mood for Easter with cute toys and edible egg slime Yolkies.

Food: I have had more time in the kitchen this month (including a garlic mushroom risotto) and the kids have joined me for biscuits, rice krispie cakes and bolognese!

Books: another bumper crop of fabuous reads!