Is it only two days since Wednesday?

The positive side of this current malarkey is that I’m spending much more time with my son. The unfortunate effect, though, is that I’m starting to see my home as a place of work, and therefore finding it hard to relax and switch into family mode. That might be why my insomnia has come back to say ‘Hello’ over the past couple of nights. It does love a change in routine.

I imagine we’re all having moments when we feel overwhelmed, confused and scared. I’m doing quite a good job of managing those thoughts and feelings but believe me when I tell you that it’s very difficult not to indulge them when it’s 4am and you’ve been lying awake for three hours.

Distraction is the answer. So in the early hours of today I started watching ‘Upstart Crow’ on BBC iPlayer. Bits of it are all right, but most of the time it feels like someone has lazily written a new version of Blackadder, borrowing a couple of characters from ‘The Office’ along the way.  Doubly disappointing when the person who wrote Blackadder – surely the finest historically-set comedy ever? – also wrote this. I smiled a couple of times, but that was all. It didn’t inspire me enough to want to watch the rest of the series, so tonight (assuming I am unable to drop off to sleep) I am going to have a look at ‘Ghosts.’ Philippa watched it when it was first broadcast and says it was very silly and very enjoyable.

Silly and enjoyable sounds like just what we all need right now, so I’ve lined that up for a look.

Love and good wishes, all.

RC 3-4-20