Second week of the Easter school holidays and it seems to have flown by. Youngest son began working in the bakery department at Coles this week. It seems odd to think that all of my children are not really children anymore. Easter weekend was spent quietly enjoying each other’s company with chocolate, plenty of other food, Pims (for me at least), and hot chocolate laced with a drop of Baileys (for all). There was also a lot of Scrabble. Mid week we changed to Monopoly, The Walking Dead version, and it turns out youngest son is a Monopoly master, beating me at my own game. He’s become addicted to the power now!
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Joke of the week comes to you courtesy of my youngest son who set this up and then pranked me by telling me the toilet was smoking. I had visions of vapour and rising sewerage as I raced up the hallway:
The Smoking Toilet
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What I’ve been watching:
Inevitably, there was going to be more TV than usual. I watched both seasons of Jamestown and am now eagerly awaiting season 3 to air in Australia. It’s currently only on US Prime.
And then I watched this:
I may never recover…
Most of the book and the original film had clearly been blocked from my memory on account of the terror. And now I remember… 😱
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Book of the week:
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Other stuff:
It took a long time and was not without frustration, but I have finished uploading all of our photos from the last 18 years to ‘the cloud’. It is nice having much easier access to these memories, plus of course, that extra ‘back up’.
I’ve also been enjoying quite a few online literary events. How good was watching The Stella Prize online? The literary community are doing brilliantly to adapt so well to the current way of life. It can’t be easy organising things in such a different way, but hats off to all who are working to bring events to life online.
And I made a list. A post about it went up earlier today, but here is the fixed page on my blog with the list of books I feel a need to read (at some stage).
https://theresasmithwrites.com/the-isolation-lucky-dip-reading-list/
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One more joke for the road:
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What I’m reading right now:
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Until next week… 😊📚☕
Theresa Smith Writes 
I like your son’s sense of humor!
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He really had me going! The seriousness in his voice! 😂
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Your book of the week is the ONLY book I have left from my April TBR pile! Think I’ll pick it up today. This is something of a new record for me…..I quite often have a book or 2 that I don’t get to in the month, from that pile. And I’ve never been finished (if I finish this one today) this early in the month before! Ever!
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I’m certain you’ll like it. I read it in an afternoon, which is a bit unusual for me.
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Sounds like the fun never stops at your place 🙂
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It’s all happening on rotation! 😂
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You are braver than I am! I don’t think I would be watching Pet Sematary!
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I am haunted by it now! Goodness, it was terrifying.
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Love your son’s joke.
I’m also enjoying insight into life of isolation with children/young people versus mine with elder care. I was at the doctor’s three times this week (although, admittedly, one of them was for all four of us to have our flu jabs) but the other two were to take the parents. It’s exciting times, being in isolation here!!
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I hope the parents are well, Sue?
Week before last I was back and forth to the doctors as well on account of the son’s glandular fever but thankfully he no longer needs medical attention, just a lot of rest.
My teens all do their own thing and are quite adept at amusing themselves but every now and again I see the ‘boredom’ weighing on my youngest. He’s the most active and sporty, so he’s missing his rugby league. Fortunately he’s taken to Scrabble and Monopoly with enthusiasm. And the dogs are certainly basking under his attentions.
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I reckon dogs and toddlers are among the big winners in all this!
I’m so glad your son is on the mend. He does need to take the rest seriously I understand?
Thanks for asking re my parents, Theresa. They are as well as can be expected, but it’s really day-by-day. Every day nothing happens us a good day!
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Yes, the doctor has said that for six weeks (which we are only at the half way mark) he needs to be careful of his spleen. So nothing really physical at all. He gets very tired. He pretends he’s fine but then goes to bed for 18 hours.
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Such a perfect time for a young man to have to rest isn’t it… If that was going to happen to you, then now is good (unless of course you got the virus).
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I do keep thinking that! The silver lining…which, as you know, I’m adept at picking!
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That smoking toilet is literally the best thing I’ve seen all day. I can’t stop laughing!!! Your son is a comedic genius!!!
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Glad to have brightened your day! 😂
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