Friends and family have been asking us what Covid’s impacts have been in London. I have to say that it’s really not bad for us. We have been ‘at-home’ – unable to go the office or any public events/spaces – since March. But we have taken the opportunity to do more reading, more brainstorming and planning for who we want to be when we grow up!
We are lucky, because we can work from home. Jordan attends his classes on-line, and we have our groceries delivered. So we really have everything we need. Every weekend, we try to connect with friends and family via Skype or Zoom or Teams … and we hold each other accountable for our good, bad and ugly behavior. See posters below. So far, I’m the only one who has earned a monster!
My home office is quite cozy with a nice view, and a comfy big chair. I usually work upstairs; Donald works at the kitchen table; Alex works from her little cozy bedroom, where she also records music and writes. Jordan does classes from the computer that he built himself during his first year at Dwight. We are often competing for bandwidth!
The biggest challenge to working from home is the constant construction noise from next door. Followers of this blog will remember that we used to live next to a family with a potty-mouth mum, a couple of kids and a newborn baby that cried at night. They moved out about 8 months ago and now our nights are quiet, but our days are very loud. They have gutted the property next door and they are re-building room by room. Many days we compete for the hallway space – a quiet spot in the house – so we can hear our conference calls above the din of jackhammers, sawz-alls, and other wall-cracking construction equipment. We are looking forward to the future, when we don’t share walls with anyone else.
