Weeknote 21/2020
It’s Bank Holiday weekend. Today, we travelled the furthest we’ve been in the last nine weeks to go for a walk along part of Hadrian’s Wall. It was wonderful.
I took Friday off to ensure I could have a longer weekend to spend with my family. That means I worked Monday and Tuesday for Moodle, and Wednesday and Thursday for We Are Open Co-op.
We’re so close to getting out the v1.0 beta of MoodleNet now, as I showed in a screencast at the bottom of an article I wrote for Thought Shrapnel. The team is looking forward to getting finished the small changes required in the next week orso.
On the co-op front, we’ve been getting ready to start some work with 10 charities, funded by Catalyst and the UK’s Social Justice Commission, which need some help in pivoting their face-to-face programmes to online provision.
Whereas many people in my life have been less busy over the last nine weeks, it’s been the opposite for me. I’ve finally found my bearings again, and feel like I’m getting back on track.
Usually, working from home is great so long as it’s interspersed with travel. The lack of it, as well as the stresses and strains of having the children around, has affected my levels of energy and motivation.
Now that we can see ourselves coming out of the lockdown in the next few months, it’s easier to plan, to have horizons, to think about what comes next. And what comes next is not more of what went before.
Next week I’m off on Monday, then working for Moodle on Tuesday and Friday, and the co-op as usual on Wednesday and Thursday.
Photo of tree at Sycamore Gap, near Twice Brewed, Northumberland.
