By the time you read this you are probably self-isolating after having panic bought bleach and rubber gloves. Personally I’m sticking to beer and Haribo.
It does show the fragility of how we have become so accustomed to convenience. Although I can’t make an objective judgement, it does rather seem that we are lurching from one crisis to another. I mean, I thought the year of Brexit was bad. My conspiracy-theory brain went into overload this month.
For World Book Day we discouraged the normal competitive dressing up. Who would have thought that a project aimed at supporting children to read would have become such a commercial success for fancy dress? Instead we encouraged children to bring in a picture of their ‘hero’. What was so heart-warming was so many children brought in a picture of their mum or dad. When I asked one little girl why she brought in a photo of her dad, she looked at me as if I was slightly dim and just said, ‘He’s my dad, he’s special’, as if (as we sometimes do) I had asked her what colour her T-shirt was. Surely it was obvious?
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