Week 6 of Lockdown

So im heading into my 6th week of lockdown this week.

Saturday 2nd May

Saturday was a lazy productive day!

After last Sunday's pancakes, I started off by making some more chocolate pancakes!

After spending some time with my mum I then headed up to my room to do some more work on my quote project, with some catch up tv in the background.

I watched an episode of James Martin's Islands and Highlands as he was in the Isle of Skye, which is where I visited nearly this time last year.

This is me there last year!

I then moved onto the latest episodes of Zoeys Extraordinary Playlist and Riverdale.

Whilst I was watching tv, and I was doing some final touches to my quote project, I created the below pictures for my niece and nephew. Cooper is a huge superhero fan and Lola likes princesses!

I ended the night by watching a few episodes of Poldark.

Sunday 3rd May 

Sunday was a baking day with my mum. Mum really wanted to make a lemon drizzle, but we settled on lemon butterfly cupcakes with a lemon curd centre and lemon icing and some vanilla and strawberry butterfly cupcakes with a strawberry jam centre and a strawberry icing.

They were quite nice, I preferred the strawberry ones, as the lemon ones were too lemony for me!

Whilst we were baking Barlow sat in the lounge and glared at me!

My sister, brother in law and the kids popped over in the car to drop off some cakes and we gave them some nice cakes and sausage rolls. 

Whilst they were there, I gave them their pictures and I asked if they wanted any more and was asked for another superhero logo from Cooper and an actual drawing of Belle from Beauty and the Beast from Lola! Being wrapped round their little fingers I said yes!

I then spent the remainder of my evening watching a couple of episodes of Poldark and The Last Kingdom.

Monday 4th May

Monday was another morning of watching The Last Kingdom.

In the afternoon  I took Barlow out for another walk, we had a nice wander around the local playing field.

Tuesday 5th May

Its Tuesday, so that meant one thing! Shopping! I needed to nip to tesco to get some stamps to send my friend the quote project, as I didnt have any, I thought I had some but, I didn't!

Whilst I was getting the stamps, I got some blank cards. So that I could send both my nans a card, so that they get some nice post, and know that even though I do shopping for them, I'm thinking of them.

Whilst I was writing out my cards and getting all the post ready for to take to the post box the following day I continued my watch of The Last Kingdom and finished the current season.

I'm hoping this isn't the last season, as I got hooked! Either way I downloaded a sample of the books the show is based on by Bernard Cornwell to my Kindle (like I need more books adding to my library!)

Wednesday 6th May

After yesterdays completion of The Last Kingdom, I really wanted something similar to watch, so I tried to watch Vikings on Amazon Prime (I'd watched the first half of the series a few years ago and enjoyed it). However i just couldnt get into it. So I put Netflix back on and tried Reign. I watched the first episode and was intrigued how they were going to proceed, so thought I'd give it a go.

Towards the later part of the afternoon, I got my letters and took Barlow for a walk to the post box. 

We ended up going on a different walk, but we found our way back to the pond below and Barlow was such a good boy, not even a bark or anything from him when a horse passed us.

Thursday 7th May

Thursday was another TV day! I started off with catching up on Riverdale and watched the film Dangerous Lies.

We then had a lovely visit from my sister and the kids, as they were on their daily walk. I was then asked by Lola, if I'd done their drawings from them, that I'd promised earlier in the week, I hadn't done them, but promised I'd get them done this weekend.

I then spent the remainder of the day watching Reign.

Friday 8th May

Friday was a bank holiday in the UK celebrating VE day.

My mum decorated the front of our house with bunting and flags.

I decided to spend the day doing my drawings for Lola and Cooper.

Here is the drawing of Belle I did for Lola, she looked alright, until I tried to put her eyelashes on and draw her nose on....then she turned a bit weird!

I cant show you Coopers The ATOM logo as I forgot to take a picture of it.

Whilst I was in my drawing mood, I also decided to do a special drawing for my lovely friend Lauren, as she found out earlier in the week that shes having a baby boy in a few months time. 

I'll send this in the post to her on Tuesday when I do my nans shopping.

A lot of our neighbours, my parents included were having socially distanced street parties, I'm not a very sociable person at the best of times, so I stayed in the house, with Barlow 

who was really depressed that he couldn't go outside and sit with mum, that he sat like this instead, waiting for her to come back in!

So that was week 6 of lockdown, its frustrating that I'm now getting used to all of this free time, and dont know how I'll adjust when we get back to a working week!

I hope you're all having a good week and staying safe.

Vanessa.