Like us, some of you are cooped up at home for the duration of the Coronavirus event. I hope you're doing more than watching your various screen devices, but we will all need entertaining things to watch in the coming weeks or months. (Oh, let's hope it's not months!) Anyway, here are a few few suggestions, things we've been watching lately:
1. The Famous Five -- on Youtube. This kids' TV show from the 1970s is just fun and slightly adventurous. They get into scrapes, and then get themselves out.
2. Liziqi -- on Youtube. A young Chinese woman has the most gorgeous channel with so many videos of her farming, building, sewing, gardening, and especially cooking. Relaxing background music, plus meals with her elderly grandma. This is relaxation!
3. James Townsend -- on Youtube. Adam loves this fellow's videos. He's a history buff with elegant shows. He cooks authentic early American food. Adam even bought Townsend's version of Ben Franklin's eyeglasses!
4. What's Cookin'? -- on Youtube. I love this series of cooking-from-around-the-world videos in English. The music is delightful, and the culture is enriching. I may have recommended them before.
5. Jeri Landers of Hopalong Hollow - on Youtube. Do you love felting, richly illustrated children's books, herbs, gardens, and other comforting homey things? Jeri is amazing. You'll find her little art cottage a cozy, comforting place to visit.
6. Dr. Westbury - on Youtube, a lot of videos of gorgeous music sung by Cathedral choirs. Very beautiful, very British.
7. English Heritage - on Youtube. English Heritage has an amazing Youtube channel. Homes Through History, What Was Life Like?, and other great playlists to explore.
8. The Repair Shop - on Netflix. A group of restoration experts welcome challenging projects from Brits, family heirlooms that need tender fixing.
9. If you have yet to see The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie, or read the book, you should probably do it now.
We've watched lots of other things, many of them rather indifferent, and some that I can't remember! But these will give you some interesting choices.
Today, I also:
*cleaned two crystal candle chandeliers that sit atop my piano,
*wrote to our Compassion children in Africa,
*sent a package to a friend in a hard-hit virus city,
*played the piano and sang and made a youtube,
*planted peas
*took a nap
I still plan to:
*make 1/2 of a cake. We don't need a whole cake in the house!
*edit a chapter in my book. Maybe. Maybe not ...
*go into the garden. It's been so rainy!
I hope your time of enforced being-at-home is a joy to you in many ways. See it as an opportunity to enrich your home life, not an opportunity to worry or be frustrated. And for all of you who cannot stay home, who must go out, God go with you and protect you! It's a nasty virus, but still just a virus after all, and many of us will get sick regardless of how careful we are. It's all about how we behave in the middle of it, right?
If staying home saves the life of, or the health of, only a single other person, or assists our healthcare professionals as their work load becomes heavier, then I'm glad to stay home. How thankful I am that I have four acres to walk around on, and not just a balcony in a high rise apartment! And I'm thankful for all of you, dear friends out there. Let's all share our love and comfort in the coming weeks and remember that it's a BIG world, and God is in all of it.
1 comment:
Thanks for posting the suggestions for videos to watch while we stay at home more than normal times. I already have watched so many Jeri Landers ( and love them) and now I have more places to explore.
I stood on a chair and cleaned my dining room chandelier this morning. Some prisms fell off and I had to ask for help in re-attaching them
( son2 helped). It's a fiddly job.
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