Category Archives: Coronavirus/Covid-19/pandemic

Blog 139 – 5.3.21. I’m not anti-anybody…

Posted on Mar 5, 2021 by aintwegotitmade

You know me….I like to be positive. I still have plenty of food, a lovely house, a job, a great husband and a beautiful cat called Millie. There is a plentiful supply of vaccines and no doubt I will rise … Continue reading →

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Blog 138 – 25.12.20 – Meal deal for 2…

Posted on Dec 25, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

I have a theory (actually it’s not my theory), that all pain and suffering and even slight irritations have a purpose…and that purpose is education. There is something to be learnt. My covid lessons have taught me, primarily, how to … Continue reading →

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Blog 137 – 4.11.20 … riding the covid bucking bronco…

Posted on Nov 4, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

brrrmmmm…..brrrmmm (presses sewing machine pedal)…whoooosh….snip. clip. damn needle..can’t see the hole…brrrmmm….brrrrmmmm I have no time to write a blog….I’ve got on the face covering skateboard and I can’t get off. The charity I volunteer for needs the dosh…plus it feels … Continue reading →

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Blog 135 – 26.7.20…doing the hippy hippy make..

Posted on Jul 26, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

Nothing is normal of course, but husband and I had a relatively normal garden meet-up with an ex-neighbour and her twenty-something daughter, M, taking a break from her pure physics PhD up in Glasgow. M had just had a paper … Continue reading →

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Blog 134 – 2.6.20. Have I gone a bit….Stepford…?

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

It looks like lockdown has turned me into a 1950s housewife. So what’s wrong with a 1950s housewife? Nothing of course, if that’s what you want to be…..

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Blog 133 – 13.5.20 …ploughing our own furlough..

Posted on May 13, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

The (socially distant) WWII Victory in Europe (V.E) day celebration on 8th May gave neighbours in my street a chance to ‘meet’, 6 feet apart (or thereabouts…it was very easy to forget).. in front gardens, have tea and cakes, and … Continue reading →

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Blog 132 – 2.5.20. It doesn’t have to be a fairy tale….

Posted on May 2, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

At the end of 2019, I quipped in Blog 125 (https://aintwegotitmade.wordpress.com/2019/12/14/blog-125-14-12-19-over-to-you-god/), that the new year might bring us some 20/20 vision… little did I know what was ahead..

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Blog 131 – 22.4.20…Always in the soup

Posted on Apr 22, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

Does anyone know how to preserve fresh coriander? The bunches and packs they come in are far too big to use all at once. Today I had to use up my tired bag of coriander before it got beyond its … Continue reading →

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Blog 130 – 20.4.20. Suppose this is a… miracle…

Posted on Apr 20, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

Dunno about you, but weirdly, I’m finding these lockdown days racing by….this is a real surprise.

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Blog 129 – 1.4.20. Food, glorious food…

Posted on Apr 1, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

It’s niece H’s 26th birthday. I sent her a birthday card with an Edward Hopper painting on the front. Hopper is fantastically good at painting silence and isolation…yet somehow, to me, his paintings aren’t sad, exactly. I think they somehow … Continue reading →

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