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    Scottish lockdown day 24ish A beautiful sunny and Scottish lockdown day 24ish

A beautiful sunny and icy walk up Black Hill today, with snow and wrap-around views at the top, and even an admission or two that we should do this walk again - high praise indeed.

Home for a relaxing afternoon including delicious and well-earned cinnamon buns. 

Ben

#scottishborders #lockdown2021 #cinnamonbuns #panorama
    If only because rioting is definitely not social-d If only because rioting is definitely not social-distancing-compliant. 

Truth be told, this week has been better than the last two. This is still our best tea towel though. 

#lockdown2021 #teatowels #riotact
    Work, study, walk round the river. Eat, sleep, re Work, study, walk round the river.  Eat, sleep, repeat. 
Occasional flare ups, occasional good moments, too many screens and not enough exercise for all of us. 
Lots of cake.
(Aurora still has spaces for customers who want home baking in return for charitable donations). 
Beautiful day today though. 

#lockdown2021 #visitkelso #scottishborders #lovewhereyoulive #wintersun
    Scottish Lockdown day yesterday+1. A day full of Scottish Lockdown day yesterday+1.

A day full of exercise starting with #teamsportif judo exercises for Sophie and Lucy, then a walk along the Tweed from Sprouston and back along the old railway.

Aurora found a puddle to kung-fu while Sophie decided she was a bit tired on the way home. (I probably carried her for all of a minute...)

Also today: a run, a haircut (after the photos), cooking, a jigsaw, baking, jam-making, calling friends and family, and overall a more peaceful day, before taking up the yoke of home school, 2 jobs and a Masters tomorrow. Watch this space ...

Good luck to you all, Ben

#lockdown2021 #scotland #rivertweed #treesofinstagram #lovewhereyoulive
    Hey it's Sophie :) Scottish lockdown day 12 (we Hey it's Sophie :) 

Scottish lockdown day 12 (we think).

Today we got woken up at 11 :( so we could clean the whole house! So after about two hours we finished so Aurora and I went and jumped onto my clean made bed and messed it up :) afterwards we all had lunch then went on a walk up at Bowmont forest which was beautiful 🌅  Afterwards we spent most the time on our phones and I did a new post :) 
I almost forgot 😅 that mummy dyed her hair she tried to do it brownish but.... it kinda turned orange like you can see in the 4th photo :)) 
So that was our not every exciting day I hope your day was better!
Sophie xx
    Scottish lockdown day x+1 So today we completed a Scottish lockdown day x+1

So today we completed a whole week of lockdown school!
Said week has been extremely slow... the school really need to get their act together to engage pupils. I think the main problem is that each teacher releases their tasks at a different point making it hard to keep track of everything we have to do. However I got through it with no tears which was good.

In other news Aurora made cupcakes for our very lovely neighbours (to find out more about Aurora baking for those in Kelso see our earlier post on Facebook) and on our daily walk up by Broomlands, we got slightly lost.

Hope everyone is surviving lockdown.

Lucy

#lockdown #lockdown2021 #homeschooling
#onlineschool #homeschool #baking #winterwalk #winterywalk #frosty #frostywalk
    Scottish lockdown day 9 Sup peeps it's your boy Scottish lockdown day 9 

Sup peeps it's your boy Magnus and today. We woke up did our school work 😕 and then we had lunch. After that we went on a walk to the bowmont forest 🌲. Then we came back and I went on Netflix while Aurora (@aur.oracampbell ) cooked THE BEST SUPPER EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😋🤤. It was lamb koftas and sticky toffee pudding! Basically all the photos are of sticky toffee pudding. It was amazing 🥳🥳. BOOM byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee BOOM 💥 

#lockdown #homeschooling #stickytoffeepudding
    Lockdown day: 8 helloo aurora here :) today woke Lockdown day: 8 
helloo aurora here :)
today woke up for the 2nd day for home schooling not liking it at all so far! (Though it's better than being actually at school). Did loads of work loads is a exageration but felt like so so much, then I had my first facetime class science which was boring ❤. then more work :( then we went on a walk i wanted to go down to the river because it would have a nice sunset 🌇 which would be good for my instagram follow it @aur.oracampbell :)) then got home chilled for a wee bit I finished Ackley Bridge 😭 (a tv show I have been watching) I honestly was in tears just because it had ended! (for the people who have watched it who's your favourite Corey or Jordan? comment!!) Then we had supper quorn mince and rice cooked by Magnus! And now we are about to watch a movie! Imma go now bye hope you're all well stay safe! bye bye
    Scottish lockdown day 7 No post yesterday, partly Scottish lockdown day 7

No post yesterday, partly because there are six of us and partly because for me (Harriet) at least, the last few days have been very difficult.  Job plus course plus kids plus dealing with my father's estate, plus usual house/life admin, plus imminent home schooling all combined to make me feel as though I was failing at everything. 

And at points it was all just too much.

Some of that is objectively true: I have had some exceptionally poor parenting moments, I got a disappointing mark (by my own standards) for my first masters' assignment and home schooling is going to be really, really hard and is not brilliantly organised. 

But also objectively it hasn't been all bad.  I have wonderful supportive friends (and husband), my employers are hugely understanding (I have taken this week as holiday to try get into some kind of routine), and the kids have, all told, been pretty amazing too. 

So here's a picture of home schooling as it should (but probably won't always) be.  And some beautiful cakes that Aurora made.  We're calling it home economics...

Long post, I know.  But sometimes you need to be open about stuff.  So here's some of mine. 

#lockdown2021 #sometimesitsalltoomuch #homeschool #homebaking #kidswhobake
    Scottish Lockdown day 5 Sup dudes it's MAGNUS TH Scottish Lockdown day 5 

Sup dudes it's MAGNUS THE AWESOME 🙃 Today we woke up and had breakfast and then we cleaned the house and then had yummy fish finger sandwiches for  lunch they were SO GOOD 😋. Then we went on a walk. Then we watched the news and now Daddy is cooking supper. I also got a ender dragon teddy that is SO CUTE 😍. Yesterday I built a lego tank / bulldozer /tractor /forklift that can be controlled by an app it literally moves by ITSELF. Byee. 

#minecraft #lockdown #lego #legoboost
    Scottish lockdown day 4 Hey it's Sophie Today I' Scottish lockdown day 4

Hey it's Sophie 
Today I've spent mostly asleep haha. I got woken up at 11.30 for a Covid test which I had! We are having weekly tests for a government survey which we get paid for:) I really dislike Covid tests it makes me cry whenever I have something up my nose like a flu vaccine or a Covid test! After lunch  we went on a walk with a twist. Yesterday we went on a walk up at Bowmont Forest. It was snowy and instagrammable so Aurora and I decided to go back and do an instagram photoshoot.  I got dressed into a reddish pink long flowy dress and we took Mummy's big camera and in the snow we had a mini photo shoot. The pictures are some of my favourites! And we went on that walk about half an hour ago so after it we edited and looked at the photos and that all leads me to now where I'm sitting in the kitchen writing this.

#lockdown2021 #snowday #photoshoot
#scottishborders
#familytravel #snowywalk #bowmontforest #visitkelso #pinkdress #notdressedfortheweather #nofilter
    Scottish lockdown day 3 One of the ways in which Scottish lockdown day 3

One of the ways in which we were so fortunate with our French lockdown was that we weren't (unlike lots of our heroic friends) trying to juggle jobs and home-schooling at the same time. 

Now, though, we're really feeling it.  And school hasn't even started yet. 

But we do still have good walks.  A ten minute journey in the car, and an additional about 75m of elevation turned sleety Kelso into magical Bowmont forest.  The change in my mood was almost as dramatic.

Oh, and a bonus video.  Because everyone loves jumping up and down in muddy puddles.  Vox pop: are they teens or toddlers? 

#lockdown2021 #scotland
#scottishborders #kelso #bowmontforest #snowday #winterwonderland #familywalk #familytravel #muddywalks
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