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Leila doesn’t recall anything exciting happening in the morning other than work. Alex made a bit potato-filled baguette for lunch using the Ethiopian curry leftovers. He then headed upstairs to join the Harvard remotee catch-up he had set up on Zoom which was really nice, especially as it was at a more friendly hour forContinue reading “Day 85: Dog walks and Friends”

Leila woke up early so she could finish off watching the brown-eyed / blue-eyed classroom exercise on discrimination before starting work. She was due to send out an email to the wider team to encourage them to watch this before their diversity session the following week so needed to watch it before hitting send. SheContinue reading “Day 84: Southwark and Spaghetti”

Leila woke better, as she’d slept a decentish night in the big bed. We worked together in the dining room and made coffee, it was super nice and we sat outside together and wrote the blog in the sun. It was one of the last sunny days of the week. Alex found a cat, andContinue reading “Day 83: Barnet”

L hadn’t slept well and when they woke up, A had to go find her and they went into work together quite demotivated. L looked a bit like a zombie again, and A was worried, she kept stopping working because she was tired. They didn’t do much in the morning except work. A had aContinue reading “Day 82: Injera and work”

L woke up early having not slept that well…. again. She started reading her sci fi book quietly downstairs which was peaceful. A had a little lie in and came down feeling fresh at 10.30am. They got dressed and headed for their usual Sunday walk – Korean supermarket, Greek pastry place, Wholefoods for papaya, andContinue reading “Day 81: Fighting Pigeons”

Alarm was set at 8.30am for a prompt departure for Chiswick at 10am. L and A both put on real clothes for the first time in a while, with A wearing his new linen white shirt which L made him iron. A made L a coffee and himself an avo toast and they packed theContinue reading “Day 80: Around Kings Cross in 80 days”

Leila headed down first and Hadn’t slept again, she’d had a dream about racism in Instagram form, it sounded super intense. She made coffee and started work while A changed. At 9.50, Liyana arrived having dropped her car. She was wearing 2 sets of clothes so that she could change out when she got toContinue reading “Day 79: Zombie”

Thursday, we were having quite an overloaded day, Leil hadn’t slept Well in the night again And they had loads of work too do. The protests had only increased and Alex had heard the previous day that all his lectures were to be 100% virtual for the fall. Leila didn’t eat breakfast and then hadContinue reading “Day 78: Overload”

A found L upstairs this time in the morn, and cuddled up with her as she’d retreated in the night to another room. We were worried it was hay fever in the night and thought that we should have kept the downstairs window shut. We resolved to wash all the sheets to make sure theyContinue reading “Day 77: TurKish MArket(XX)”

The day started as per normal with L & A working downstairs in the kitchen. It was one of the last nice days of sun so they had planned to be outside for at least some of it. The news and social media was focussed on the frustration, anger and sadness of the Black populationContinue reading “Day 76: George Floyd”