I am shooting a series of portraits of residents of Victoria St in #burystedmunds to put together a small local record of this challenging time. Ross & Gemma have lived on Victoria Street for 6 years with their son Sebastian. These are Ross’s thoughts on lockdown…
“Being furloughed has allowed me time to focus on areas away from work that I wouldn’t normally have time for.
For 6 years, we have been living in a house that has a cellar. For that time it’s pretty much been a dumping ground, but now I’ve had the time to convert it into a usable room which is now both a games room and classroom.
Being able to teach my son has been a fantastic opportunity whilst my partner continues with work (although I am not so sure my son will agree). It has been tough at times but we have found an element of compromise which is showing signs of success. I can say that I have learned a thing or two over the past few weeks from Key Stage 1 English!
What a saviour technology is with many platforms to communicate, share information, ask questions and of course, ensure that children do not miss out completely on their education. I am lucky to have the fantastic support from the School and only having one child really helps. I know many other families are not so lucky to be able to focus their complete attention to their children during school hours.
Sadly we had to break the news to Seb that he couldn’t have a birthday party this year. As you can imagine it didn’t go down very well. It’s difficult for a 5/6 year old to grasp what’s going on.
Let’s hope we are about to see the final furlong of this crazy crisis and return back to as close to normal as possible. I wish to say goodbye to the ‘virus days’ as my son likes to put it… real soon!”
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