Hi all Hope you’re all tip top again this week. Keep washing those hands, with soap, for at least 20 seconds… and nag everyone in your house to keep doing the same! You have my permission!!

Firstly, I nipped down to see my poor old mum and dad in Chichester yesterday as they had run out of bread. They are from the North of England and bread is very important to northeners. It’s one of our five a day, don’t you know?! It was blimmin’ freezing and I stood in their garden, about 6 metres away from them, trying to have a conversation (not so easy as my dad’s hearing isn’t top notch so I felt I was shouting rather a lot). My husband says that shouting comes naturally to me!! Anyway, I also gave them your letters. I gave them very strict instructions to only open one or two a week. Well, guess what?! By the time I had driven home (trying to defrost my by now very cold hands in the car!!), my mum had sent me a Whatsapp message saying she’d read ALL the letters. Epic fail!! She is always like this. She has no patience at all!! Anyway,here is what she wrote:

Dear Year 6

Thank you for all our lovely letters. We loved hearing about you (and what you think of our daughter!). Yes, we do support Barnsley (well, my husband does!) and yes, Daisy, his mum was indeed called Ida. Her name, before she was married, was actually Ida Lacey Hatton and we have always thought her name sounded as though she was saying ‘I had a lacy hat on’!

Thank you, lovely Year 6 and keep well. We were very touched that you took the time to write to us. And thank you, too, for all the ideas for how to keep us entertained, especially those word searches!

Mrs Powell’s mum ! x

In other news, I attach below a lovely art idea that I came across. All you need is a shadow. Why don’t you give it a try if you get bored some time.

Finally, no blog is complete without the two key characters from our household, deaf white Louis and little black Dot (who, as you know, also responds to the names ‘Baby’ and also, weirdly, ‘Tractor’!) Dot is sniffing her cat nip ball again! Louis, meanwhile, is fast asleep. As he is totally deaf, he seems very aware of light which he hates when he’s trying to sleep. He therefore always covers his eyes like this, to keep the light out!