Owen Skinner
Owen is enjoying a lie-in, not having to catch the coach into school which saves him two hours a day, although he says he used to start his homework on the way home. Not so easy, due to bad behaviour of some boys.
His schooling has continued with online and exams.
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Owen has taken up cooking, making cakes with Karen and toasties for lunch with their new sandwich toaster - mozzarella is his favourite.
He has moved into his new, bigger bedroom which has room for a desk with laptop although he usually does his schoolwork in the loft.
He misses going to the Pauline Quirk Academy of Performing Arts in Amersham on Saturday mornings with some of his friends.
Schooling on line can be difficult and more time consuming, he says, not having the teacher at hand to explain things, and no chemistry experiments. His favourite subject is design technology (DT). 'The school has an amazing DT building which we aren't benefitting from now'.
His present homework includes designing a chassis for a dragster car using computer assisted design (CAD) on the computer.
Working independently takes longer which means working later in the evening.
Another big miss is holidays. 'We were due to have a 'family adventure' holiday to the Scottish island of Barra last month, including a plane landing and taking off from the beach - the world's only scheduled beach airport. Even worse, our holiday to Disney in August has been cancelled but we hope to go to Tenby for a week in August.'
Celyn Ferris
Lockdown has been a very strange experience, says Celyn. 'I never thought it would happen and laughed at people at work who were preparing for it back in January. I thought it would be another bird or swine flue scare which seemed to come to nothing in Britain.
'When we started making contingency plans at work it was a bit more real but I still thought it would never happen. How wrong I was!
'The thing I have enjoyed most is spending more time with my house mates. We all have busy lives and our own interests, so normally we would only spend one or two evenings but now it is great. It's brought us all a lot closer.
'The other good thing has been working from home. I'm lucky to have a boss who's allowed me to work very flexibly and been relaxed about work so I don't have to log on and work 9 to 5 as in the office.
It has not been all good, working at home, Celyn adds,
'Our house is quite small and the dining table doubles as a desk.The living/dining room is one space so we can't shut the office off and relax, You are are totally at work or totally at home. The worst thing is not being able to go and see my family and friends. I go to see Mum and Dad at least once a fortnight but sneakily - twice since lockdown and that was over the garden wall.
'I haven't seen Bethan since February.
'I am not sure that life will ever go back to what it used to be - we're all so aware now how easily illness can spread and have a devastating effect. I'm just hoping that nothing like this ever happens again.'
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