Sorry you are out of sorts Snuggly. I feel it a bit too. There’s just no end in sight. And it’s going to be hard keeping little DC occupied all through the winter with no indoor entertainment options. I hope you get your mojo back a bit - will half term help?
The reading nook was what I was drawn too too Pumpkin - very cute rooms.
Hope DD gets with the sleep Programme soon Em.
I am also about to have a madly busy work week, my diary is jammed most days, I am behind with paper writing (late nights beckon!), I’m on site on Wednesday and I’ve got a Zoom school governor meeting in the evening. I’m going to be wrecked by Friday and the DCs are off school as half term starts from then. Ug. I might try to book an extra day AL next week to get through half term.
My DSises came over today for birthday beef stew, dumpling, mash and veg and then Victoria sponge. i feel I’ve done justice to the 1950s (I’d say to my granny, but she was an awful cook 
) . We sat in the garden, which was fine, not too cold, but we tried the fire pit for coziness and then had to sit miles away as the smoke was overpowering! We were burning logs sold for fire pits - what am I doing wrong?!
We’re supposed to be going to see PILs in a couple of weeks but I don’t think we can have lunch at theirs now (we are tier 2, they are tier 1). But BIL and SIL (also London tier 2) think it’s fine and are going up next weekend for lunch. It is confusing but I’m sure that’s not allowed (I mean, they can do what they want in the end, I’m just trying to understand the guidance). I think MIL is a bit annoyed that we’re inclined to stick to the rules since BIL and SIL are prepared to be ‘flexible‘. I sense they think I am being unnecessarily square but honestly, I just don’t want to make anyone ill 
. Being ‘flexible’ is starting to feel like the prevailing mood of the country - god knows what will happen if that becomes the norm.
Also, DS’s class WhatsApp group has been exciting tonight. One mum posted a video about covid being a conspiracy theory - same person who posted some anti-vaxxer crap a couple of weeks ago and was politely told it’s not the place. She was asked again to keep the group chat to school-related matters and came back with a rude comment , followed (after another polite protest) by a very rude picture indeed (F you - in extremely graphic cartoon form 
). I am so shocked anyone would speak to another person like that, let alone a group of school parents! I did lodge my protest. I imagine she’ll be kicked off if there’s a repeat of it. I await developments with interest... makes you look at people in quite a new light though!