Day 65 - Eurovision

Saturdays always start with the parkrun Global Quiz. Me and Mum both did it from bed this morning, and I got a pretty dismal seven out of fifteen this week! Doing the quiz in bed is a nice way to gradually get used to the idea of getting up.

After this, me and Fiona did our running session. This felt great this morning, and my legs felt nice and energetic, compared to the tiredness that’s been in them for a good few days up until now. On my way home, I spotted a sign outside the Cork Waterworks tourist attraction. It said that, due to coronavirus, the building would remain closed until March 29th. That got me remembering those days in March when we all thought that we were going to be shut down for about two weeks or so. I even remember, at a staff meeting around the 10th March, discussing whether we should do laboratory work or not when the students came back in April! We really had no idea what was ahead!

RTÉ and TG4 are showing past sporting events, to make up for the complete absence of sport on TV these days. The Ireland vs Romania match from the 1990 World Cup was on television, and I put it on for a while. Peter remembered so much detail about this match, including the players, the score and a lot about what happened during it!

Pretty much the whole of today was spent adding Peters recordings and video to our lockdown orchestra project. We had a good laugh making his video part - he’s gotten surprisingly into this project!

In the evening, the Eurovision was on. During the show, they played a thirty second clip from each of the entries, and interviewed previous winners etc. It was an unexpectedly emotional watch, and I ended up going to bed earlier than I was planning because I was tired from the emotion of the programme! Czytaj więcej