Quarantine!

 So little Dexter was sent home from nursery because he coughed. He'd had a runny nose for several days and actually had a cough for months last winter, so no biggie. His (very sharp) mum got him a test the same day and, big surprise, the next day the results came back positive. (At time of writing we're 4 days on and he isn't any more poorly and none of us have symptoms.)

Now nowhere on the gov.uk Covid guidelines does it say that people in a childcare bubble have to isolate if a contact has a positive test. (This was definitely the case, anyway, on the evening of 29 October.) Both gov.uk and the NHS Covid web guidelines said that those in a support bubble (clearly defined on gov.uk as applying to support for single people and single parents) do have to isolate; childcare bubbles are not mentioned on the NHS pages.

But it is clearly in the spirt of the guidelines that if you're in close contact with someone who has a positive test then you isolate for 2 weeks so that's what we're doing.

Faced with the horror of 2 weeks stuck at home one's first thought, obviously, is "do we have enough chocolate in the house?" and second "how are we going to work off the calories from that chocolate?".

Then the questions come thick and fast! How will C survive without her daily newspaper? Can we stand each other's sole company for two whole weeks? What  happens when we run out of fresh food? Will C finally agree to watching season 8 of Game of Thrones?