Last night was one of those yucky sleepless nights. So very tired yet all I could muster was probably 40 minutes sleep. Annoyingly those 40 minutes came right at the end of the night and was brought to an all to abrupt ending with the morning homeschooling alarm.

During those zombie like hours I started writing a list of things to do this week. After getting stuck on item 1 for far too long, the list morphed into a more fruitful

What have I learned about myself during the last few weeks of this rather odd period in our history.

So here goes with my early morning facts

1. I’m crap at writing To Do lists,
2. Late at night I have a habit or writing LIST so that it looks like LUST,
3. I can’t sleep properly,
4. My old mobile phone has never worked better since it got machine washed with my clothes,
5. My phone has a surprisingly good camera however it has the most annoying panorama function. The photo above took hours to do,
6. I am so lucky to have that view from the garden. But what would I give for either a mountain or the sea in the distance,
7. I quite enjoy most of this home schooling lark,
8. Homeschooling and work are never going to be a good fit for me,
9. Homeschooling and long distance running are never going to be a good fit for me,
10. Homeschooling and my bank balance are never going to be a good fit for me,
11. Homeschooling, my bank balance and holidays are never going to be a good for me,
12. High petrol prices are not an issue when you don’t drive your car for 6 weeks,
13. I can now make my own pizza bases as long as they are square shaped. Round is beyond me,
14. I can fill a freezer up real quick when I start saving leftover food,
15. A dairy and gluten free diet is a pain in the arse when the shops sell out of specialist diet ranges,
16. I miss football on the telly,
17. I miss alpine sports on the telly,
18. I hate the news now. I miss the days of moaning about Brexit,
19. I’m a barnpot yet I would do a better job of running our country than the clowns currently in charge. Apparently it’s ok for a Prime Minister to miss FIVE emergency meetings and have weekends off during a national emergency,
20. My Son knows more than I do,
21. Receiving a parcel from Amazon now feels as dangerous as trying to change a fuel rod in a nuclear reactor,
22. Not being able to get Sons favourite Soup, Beans, Skinless Sausages and Pasta is one of the most stressful things in the world,
23. I must be really vexing to live with,
24. Cheap tea bags taste the same regardless of how many times I reuse them,
25. Using Yorkshire Slang Words gets me put on the Spam Naughty List,
26. At some stage I might have to physically talk to someone else than our son. I’m dreading that thought,
27. You can still get colds if you are isolating from the outside world,
28. When I’m carefully stood in my designated 2m queuing area why can’t I stop thinking about how long virus particles stay airborne for,
29. I get so excited when I see an aeroplane now that I must rush to check where it’s flying to,
30. I haven’t combed my hair in 6 weeks,
31. Where does all the so called spare time disappear when I’m on lockdown,
32. The more I learn German the less I can remember of French. It’s as if for every new German word entering my brain, a French one has to pop out to make space,
33. I will even talk to slugs these days,
34. Don’t set up a darts challenge with your son then at the last minute realise you don’t have a dartboard or darts,
35. The Government and Chief Executives of major companies only email me when there is a pandemic going on,
36. I still hate U2,
37. I want to live in Switzerland
38. I’m still a widow. Or as my Predictive Text tries to type – I am still a window,
39. These days it really doesn’t matter if I put my pants on back to front.