Feest Isolation Days – 8 September
Schools back! Kids are heading back to their places of learning. And teachers have quite a task ahead of them. It didn’t take long for youngsters to forget all about school and develop new habits. Apparently rather a lot of them spent days on end playing games on their handheld devices.
Sleeping patterns for many went straight out the window. Instead, they played and got what one teacher calls “twitching fingers”. They sit in their classroom unable to be still for long without moving their fingers. They have become so used to using them as they spend hours playing games. The teachers take them outside and get them to run around and get rid of their pent-up energy. Older kid’s heads hit the desk in the middle of the afternoon and they fall asleep. They aren’t used to routines anymore. Where were their parents? I suppose they were working, and trying to do their best. Poor families! Not easy. Poor teachers. Let’s hope normal happens soon for these folks.
Normal is going to be a while yet. Will we ever get back to normal? Will we remember what it is when we get there? Travel? Dinners out? Coffee inside in a café sitting close enough to someone else you can smell their perfume? Who knows when this will be? Not yet.
The government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme was such a total success that now they are trying to do the same sort of thing for Theatres and Sporting events. The differences are huge though. I want to get back into theatres and concert halls as much as anyone, but it needs to be safe. Seat Out to Help Out is in the pipeline. We will watch this space and hope that something becomes possible soon. Concerts! Theatre! Sports! We all so want to be back surrounded by others and cheering or clapping away.
Actually, I really am a bit of a rugby fan (!!) I am delighted that the players are getting back to it and look forward to the Six Nations. Last year’s Six Nations results have yet to be declared as Italy and England never happened. The plan is that they will play in October. One person who is unlikely to be playing is Captain Owen Farrell. Someone needs to take that young man aside and explain to him the high tackle rules. This weekend he was playing for his team Saracens and a dangerous and shocking high tackle cost him a red card. Come on Farrell, you are the Captain! There’s no teacher around to take you outside and get you to run off your pent-up energy. You are the person who ought to be doing that for others. Shame on you. Wasps went on to win the game and Farrell is sitting on a bench. The naughty chair!
Covid 19 hasn’t yet got its red card and is still very much around. The numbers are going up. Be careful. Stay safe. Distance, hand wash and mask up. It isn’t much to ask really is it?
Enjoy!
With love
Kathy x