The new year has begun to a busy start.
At home, a new lockdown that has shut schools and made learning remote, means a packed home schedule now. I am stumped by how hard school teachers work, all the more when managing unruly kids via an online medium. But all are learning - the kids, the teachers and the parents.
The kiddo has started reading books actively. Both her mum and I are secretly hoping she will turn into a book worm. Like us. That said, she also read Harry Potter 2, and got scared of the notion of a monstrous snake hiding behind walls; which resulted in many a sleepless night.
At work, a flurry of global announcements easing up crypto markets for banking access has everyone is preparing for an institutional rush. That means a packed work schedule. Thankfully, I am lucky to have an uplifting start to this year. There is much to be grateful for.
Vaccine rollouts for covid have begun in the UK, and globally. The start seems slow, but the governments seem to be working hard to increase the pace. The third lockdown, as is currently ongoing, seems to have moved everyone into a post-fatigue state. There is fatigue from nearly a year of lockdowns, but also hope for a semblance of normality as vaccines rollout.
Also the last month of the Trump Presidency in the US. The attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol at the time of the certification has defined the end of a crazy tenure. Everyone is just happy for the tide to be turning with the Biden Presidency - and he seems to have kicked-off putting a hold on most of his predecessors shenanigans across covid responses, climate change and immigration.
Weather wise, we saw the first snow in London, since we arrived here 18 months back. Ah, what a delight. Making snowmen is fun. Even if they melt away the next day.
