Recent Travels
Working from home
So, Miguel, Salma and I are all very lucky to have jobs that allow us to work from home. We all sporadically work from home anyway, so the adjustment during lockdown wasn’t as big as I imagine it was for others. However, living in a small London apartment and having...
Mira and Branko
While life at 113 has been fun and eventful, a great deal of comic relief has been provided by none other than my mum and dad. There has been the odd case of “laughing with them”, although the strong majority of cases were definitely “laughing at them”, and their...
Everyday lockdown shenanigans
The remainder of April had no other major events. We still had our Friday night fun, but the rest of the time we spent just like everyone else; not doing much. At that point I hadn’t even been bullied into writing my blog (not for lack of trying), so the productivity...
Easter and the search for flowers
After Iranian New Year, the next set of official lockdown celebrations were the Easter weekends (first the Catholic one and then the Orthodox one). The Catholic one was pretty uneventful, as the only real Catholic in the flat is theoretically Miguel, although if...
Nowruz and the birth of the Triple D
As we settled into our lockdown lives, I realised that, while fun, binge watching Netflix every day was not going to be a very healthy approach to lockdown. We had to be creative and bring some alternative new ways to have fun into our lives. One of our greatest...
Neftlix and chilling – addendum
Ok I have a couple of addenda to my previous blog about Netflix due to readership feedback. Firstly, as my friend Andrej rightly pointed out, amongst all the shitty murder shows and reality Tv launched on Netflix, there has been one show which is amazing and has me as...
Netflix and chilling
One of the things that I did as a result of the early lockdown panic was that I started religiously following the news; News at 10, Newsnight, random corona updates, etc. I knew almost as much as my mother about what was going on, and from the looks of it at the time...
Stockpiling
The first couple of weeks for us were presumably the same as for everyone- summed up in one word; ‘panic’. Mild panic by Bosnian standards (I live with one of the most relaxed men on earth so he semi cancels me out), but panic all the same. I remember reading a meme...
The lead-up to lock-down
Our first week of lockdown was quite abrupt, stressful and unexpected. MigueI and I went into lockdown in our household on the 16th March (7 weeks ago today but who’s counting). Salma, our flatmate had been skiing 3 weeks earlier and couldn’t shake off this cold/fever...
Bullied into a corona blog
So I’m not sure how this is going to pan out, or why I’m even doing this at all. To be honest, I would love to say that I’ve been inspired because of the large amount of free time that I have to finally get a chance to do something I love. In theory that is totally...