Corona and life in general at the mo

So, this is finally recent life now I've caught up.

And life at the moment is crazy! The corona virus I've mentioned previously has become massive..

I wont go into detail about the facts because, to be honest, I've avoided them as it's pretty damn scary! But I'll tell it how I've experienced it.

At first when I heard about it I just heard it was like the flu and lots of people were getting ill and we had to wash our hands more regularly... I have to admit I really didnt take it seriously, I was the one joking with all the memes and singing happy birthday twice whilst washing my hands was as far as I was going.

Well.. then it started to creep up on us, and people here started to die.. you'd here about a death every other day and it started to feel a little more real. Then more and more cases were being reported. I think (from a quick google search) that the first death reported was 13th March in Scotland.. it's not the 8th April and the number of deaths in the UK is 6,159.. so that's how real this thing now is! How terrifying is that..

So it went from a few cases, to schools closing, to pubs and restaurants closing, to everyone working from home, to complete lockdown where we have to follow these rules:

You should only leave the house for very limited purposes:
- Shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible
- One form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle - alone or with members of your household
- Any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid or escape risk of injury or harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person
-Travelling for work purposes, but only where you cannot work from home

How insane is life right now?! All events are being cancelled.. like Adam and Erika's wedding.. I won't have a babyshower, we just cant do anything we'd planned.

My birth will also have different rules.. I am only allowed one birth partner, so just Antony rather than having my mum there as well. Which is devastating. Antony has to leave an hour after the baby is born.. he's not allowed there until i'm officially in labour.. so if I go in to be induced he's not allowed in. And I'm not allowed any visitors at all.. it's really shit to be honest!

BUT.. I moan about these things and then give myself a reality check because we are healthy, we are staying safe.. these rules arent in place because the midwives want to be rubbish or cant be bothered with visitors.. they're all for our own safety. As long as baby if here safely that's all that will matter.

I just hope hope hope with everything I got that Ant will be there for her actual birth. I'd be so sad if he missed it.. but I need to take everyday as it comes because who knows where we'll at the end of May. Fingers crossed the rules will have relaxed but we shall see.

On a lighter note, me and Ant have been working from home together and it's really nice. We are very much a couple that spend all of our time together and dont row or get annoyed with each other.. we're used to each other's company all the time. We have little breaks to dance or sing along to the radio and I dunno.. in all this negativity, its nice to have these positives. Like not having to get ready in the mornings.. being pretty chilled all day ( i was always on my feet at work and getting tired with pregnancy)

Also.. thinking of positives.. if Ant is still working from home when the baby is here we'll have lots more time together than we normally would as he'd be at work so that's nice.

It's just a shame that no-one can come and see my newborn baby! People wot actually meet her until she's grown some.. who knows.

Anyway as you can tell it's very up and down at the moment.. Let's just hope that this whole thing starts to die down soon.. I just want it to be over as I'm sure the whole world does.

Every Thursday everyone stands outside their doors to clap and praise the NHS and the front line workers, it's really nice.

Anyway, some recent pics.

 Bump date at 31 week here..

 Us working from home real hard

 Sums up our lives

 The weather has been so beaut lately, which makes this whole situation a lot more bearable. We are so grateful that we have a garden. We might be in isolation but we are so lucky to have each other, a lovely house with a big garden and our little kits to keep us happy x

Antman's birthday

So Ant's birthday weekend was lots of fun! A bit different to most years as we couldnt go as wild, but we had a really good time.

On the Friday night we went for a few drinks in the pub straight from work (I had a moccha oooo) and Ant did about 3 beers in an hour, easy!

We chinwagged and chatted about the corona virus which was creeping up on us at this time.. I had a surprise planned for the next day and hadnt told Ant about it until now.. I was saying how I'd bought anti-bac wipes to make sure we can clean the golf clubs tomorrow at Top Golf... I didnt even noticed I'd said it and he was laughing like you've just told me what we're doing tomorrow!! OOPS! I was so annoyed and embarrassed...

Anyway, we then headed off to the curry house, oooh I was excited.

On the walk over I could see how drunk Ant was and I thought oohhhh this is going to be fun hahaha!

We arrived and ordered and had such a good laugh. Ant was being a wind up, leaning back on his chair to get stuff from the table behind and making me stress that he was gonna fall off the chair and make a right scene! Then he started singing along to the music loudly and laughed at himself going 'oooops just realised how drunk I am and how loud that was'

We headed home and slobbed in bed.. with Ant continuing to wind me up!

The next day we got up, I made him some brekkie and mooched about a bit. We then went to our first NCT class.. we got stuck in the bloody car park and I had to swap with Ant so he could get us out of the tighted space I've ever been in. It was so hard, Ant scraped my wing mirror on the wall but I didnt care.. get us out! Good start lol!

Anyway, the session was really good. We got to know each other, had a bit of a chinwag and some snacks and then we split off into guys and girls and wrote down what we'd like to learn from NCT. It was funny cos our list was massive and the guys had 3 items on theres.

We then looked at (not real) pictures of the stages of labour and had to put them in the right order. IT was crazy but quite exciting.. even though I know it's going to hurt just a lot.

It was really good and I was really looking forward to the next one.. little did I know that'd be my first and last session due to the corona virus which I've briefly mentioned.

So afterwards we went off to Top Golf. We thought it'd be quite quiet today but we were wrong... we ended up waiting about 2 and a half hours? But it was all good because we had some drinks and some grub and enjoyed each others company.

When it was our turn we went and got our balls and set up to play.. I thought I was gonna be dreadful but I actually beat (thrashed) Antony in the first game! Buuuuut.. the second game not so much, I was dreadful this time.

We had sucha laugh at each other being awful and missing the ball haha. We ordered some drinks.. Ant more beet and me a big fat chocolate milkshake which was delicious!

We then headed home and I cant remember what we did, I reckon we ordered take away and chilled out tbh! We're getting old..

The next day was Ant's actual bday and we didnt do a lot really. We did pressies and brekkie in the morning and then I'm pretty sure we went to Aldi and then Ant played his game and I went through baby clothes.. how times have changed.

Ant forgot (as usual) to take a pic of me so he had to take this at the end when we'd ran out of balls!





Here's a little bumpdate in my painty clothes.. I was gonna write about the house renovations but I think it's just boring.. bascially.. we are painting all the rooms.. got new bathroom and ordered new carpet. Nesting AF!