Elen in Moseley - Part 1
During the January 21 Lockdown, I spent most of my time at home, coercing the kids to complete their "home learning", which frankly nearly broke me. When you have two neurodivergent 9 year old boys are equally distractible, or distracting, it was an absolute nightmare trying to coax them to stay focused. We resorted to having to separate them and have one complete online learning in the morning, the other in the afternoon. My husband was working from home and I felt like my life had been colonised by the kids primary school and my husband's work. No thought or consideration for those of us stuck at home, having lost our support network and with the pressures of "THE SYSTEM" curled up by the fire in your home, whilst you slowly lost the plot. Anyways, that wasn't the point of this.... During this hell, the only time I could escape the house was in the evening after we had all had dinner. So I started going out wandering the streets with my do...