It's just too grim for my daughters (together with millions of other children) to have to spend the best part of 24 hours alone in their rooms, either online-learning or sleeping. So, as we had to get internet into the shed for the security cams (to keep an eye on the piggies), they've now set up a rota and take turns to work in there. The shed had been converted into my study long ago (without internet) but the piggies chucked me and my desk out soon after their arrival. Now their run has been made slightly smaller to fit in a little round table. I don't think it is very comfortable but whereas my younger used to scowl at me and hiss, I'm on a google meet, when I would pop my head around her bedroom door, this morning in the shed she looked up and smiled whilst mouthing it. And the piggies have been joining in, wheeking their way loudly through a meet yesterday 
I'm glad it's made their home learning easier!
My elder packed her school bag yesterday morning before going off to the shed, as if she were going to school ... I don't think they are supposed to have the meets in their bedrooms anyway, but where else can they go? (We don't have the space downstairs and so they do put a google-meet background to hide their rooms.) So now they're working to the accompaniment of wheeks and rattly loud drinking! (Ophelia drinks so much -- it is as though it is her go-to activity when bored. What shall I do now? I've done a stint of eating hay. Oh, I know, I can trot off to have another drink.) I should think the piggies really like the company as well 
and the dog (he just barges his way onto camera and interrupts). He's just been entertaining my students in the middle of a lecture 
) chairing our work meeting when we first went into lockdown last year 
The promise of a guinea pig or a dog helps get my students to their classes!
And a bit of beautiful Jezzy floof always extra good too! 
