Day 2 in isolation

It’s Saturday, so no work today. However, to facilitate an ordered mind for working from home on Monday, I’ve decided to deep clean the house.

I hoovered and cleaned the floors in every room, wiped all surfaces with antibacterial spray, cleaned all bathrooms and rearranged some furniture. I’m feeling very happy and relaxed now that the place is in such good order, and our workspace is neat!

I gave Peter a list of things to do, as he was keen to help out, but the list didn’t end up exactly as I remember writing it (see photo below)!

At about 4pm, I managed to get out, between rain showers, for a thirty minute run. I jogged up to our local pharmacy, to buy a thermometer, and then jogged back again (we’ve been checking our body temperatures every day but I broke our previous thermometer by washing it in hot water)! The roads were very quiet, the paths were very quiet and there were very few people up around our local shops. People do seem to be staying at home.

Peter has a bit of a cough, but no temperature, so we think and hope it’s probably just a regular cold. We’ll keep an eye on it with our new thermometer!

This evening, I found newspapers that mum bought two weeks ago (28th Feb) when she came down to visit. Their headlines cover the first coronavirus case found on the island of Ireland. That seems like an absolute world away now. Tonight on the news, they described thirty nine new cases in Ireland and one new death.Read more