{"id":24460,"date":"2020-08-12T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24460"},"modified":"2023-05-30T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:51:29","slug":"starting-lessons-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24460","title":{"rendered":"Starting Lessons Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crossed_fingers.png\" alt=\"Crossed fingers\" class=\"wp-image-41872 lazyload\" width=\"697\" height=\"305\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crossed_fingers.png 524w, https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/crossed_fingers-300x131.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 697px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 697\/305;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is an old article dating from the end of the first Covid lockdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I\u2019m on the cusp of starting teaching again. I\u2019ve held back because I am carer to my elderly parents, but I have bills to pay and need to start generating income \u2013 albeit definitely less than usual for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they don\u2019t make it easy when you\u2019re concerned about COVID-19. I have three new starters lined up, two of which are referrals. I spoke with one today who couldn\u2019t take my initial call\u2026 because she was at the hairdressers. One of my existing pupils has a test booked for early September\u2026 and she\u2019s off to Greece this week. To be fair to both of them, they fully understand my predicament and and have said they will let me know if there are any risks. The one who\u2019s going to Greece is going to isolate for two weeks before taking lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roll on a vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old article dating from the end of the first Covid lockdown. Well, I\u2019m on the cusp of starting teaching again. I\u2019ve held back because I am carer to my elderly parents, but I have bills to pay and need to start generating income \u2013 albeit definitely less than usual for the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-covid-19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}