First of all, happy new year everyone and hopefull 2021 is good to everyone, and looking forward to an end to this pandemic at some point this year... fingers crossed! The majority of blog updates from last year were prefixed with "Coronavirus Lockdown" but decided to avoid that for this year, and hopefully if all goes well that'll be all behind us before the end of the year, so just naming these future posts by their month names from now on :)

This year we started off with the first few days around the house and in the log cabin. On that first weekend we drove over to Greenwich Park for a wander around there and some time playing in the bandstand, followed by a visit to Peckham Rye Park on the Sunday for a walk around the lake until the rain starting to come down pretty hard so decided to rush back to the car and head on home.

Towards the end of last year, we had decided if COVID cases in the area were super high at the start of January, we would keep Ellen at home for at least the first week. So I took the first two days of January off and Una took the Wednesday off. On the Tuesday, Lockdown 3 was announced which was a national lockdown (again), one step futher than the Tier 4 restrictions that London was already under. Thankfully, nurseries weren't affected by it, so they would stay open, but still pleased we kept her at home for the first week. At least my first day back to work on the Wednesday wasn't as much of a hassle with only a few steps commute to the "office" at home instead of the trek through in the chilly January weather :)

The next weekend we spent most of it at home, with a brief visit up to Telegraph Hill Park on the Sunday for a bit of a run around and some fresh outdoor air. We're pretty limited where we can go and what we can do, but good to get out when we can. That Friday was my birthday and we had originally planned to go away for the weekend, but when Lockdown was announced, we postponed it to later in the year when hopefully we do get to go. But we had a nice day at home, with hot stone raclette for dinner that night - as good as any restaurant meal :) That weekend was another one spent mostly at home, with it being pretty cold outside, but did mange a visit up to Telgraph Hill Park for a walk around and a bit of time on the playground.

Last weekend was fairly sunny on the Saturday morning, so not to waste a nice day, we headed over to Nunhead Cemetery for an easy walk around there, and on the Sunday we had our first bit of snow fall, more than I expected to fall, so after the first part of the morning at home watching it come down, we took a walk over to St. Mary's Frobisher Park for a bit of play in the snow and some very small snowman building, which Ellen really seemed to enjoy!

Yesterday was a miserable rainy day here, so had a lazy indoors day at home all day. Then today, with it being nice and sunny, we decided to head into Tower Bridge and walk over towards St Katharine Docks.

It was super windy and cold, so after our walk over the bridge and around the Marina, we decided to return to the car and head on back to a nice warm home :)