Title
My Community Choir in Lockdown
Subject
Health and wellness
Description
Experience
I'm working from home, and have been since March 10th 2020. Working from home actually means sitting at one end of the kitchen table, and managing my 10-year old's homeschooling at the other. My partner is working from home downstairs, and our nearly-teenage daughter has converted the guest bedroom into a home study to do schoolwork with her friends. So I'm not doing much 'fun' work (research); but just about keeping on top of the transition to new ways of working, teaching graduate students and examining.
We have been in lockdown before - when one of our children was immunocompromised for 3 years during treatment for childhood leukaemia, so perhaps we were more ready to make the adjustment. To keep sane (then, and now), I sing in a community choir in Oxford. This singing time is the only fixed point of my week and has been for 7 years now. The video I am sharing is a video we created and shared widely, for fun, and it captures the creativity and inventiveness of coping with staying at home.
About the picture(s)
One picture from my garden - peonies, that haven't flowered like this for a decade. Or perhaps they did, but I was too busy working to see? And a local art project - boats of hope - decorating the railway bridge, which is on my daily walk to Port Meadow.
I'm working from home, and have been since March 10th 2020. Working from home actually means sitting at one end of the kitchen table, and managing my 10-year old's homeschooling at the other. My partner is working from home downstairs, and our nearly-teenage daughter has converted the guest bedroom into a home study to do schoolwork with her friends. So I'm not doing much 'fun' work (research); but just about keeping on top of the transition to new ways of working, teaching graduate students and examining.
We have been in lockdown before - when one of our children was immunocompromised for 3 years during treatment for childhood leukaemia, so perhaps we were more ready to make the adjustment. To keep sane (then, and now), I sing in a community choir in Oxford. This singing time is the only fixed point of my week and has been for 7 years now. The video I am sharing is a video we created and shared widely, for fun, and it captures the creativity and inventiveness of coping with staying at home.
About the picture(s)
One picture from my garden - peonies, that haven't flowered like this for a decade. Or perhaps they did, but I was too busy working to see? And a local art project - boats of hope - decorating the railway bridge, which is on my daily walk to Port Meadow.
Date
May 2020
Contributor
David
Publisher
Museum of Oxford
Creator
David
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