Fun Things to Do While In Lockdown

Throughout lockdown Brentwood and Ongar's fine youth organisation leaders have been keeping Scouts, Guides, Brownies, Cubs, Beavers, Sea Scouts and Air Cadets running through the medium of Zoom.

The Great Get Together is inspired by Jo Cox, who was killed on the 16th of June 2016. In her first speech in Parliament, Jo said, ”We have more in common than that which divides us”.

It feels very much as though lockdown has caused Christmas to come early in certain households. I noticed a great many households rigging up their festive lights before the 1 December watershed this year. And given what everyone’s had to contend with, why not?

The BBC have announced that BBC Bitesize will soon be available on the CBBC Channel.

Zara Lee, Communications Advisor, BBC Public Affairs, said:

It’s been a strange and unsettling year for all of us, but for school-age children the coronavirus pandemic has caused them to miss months of school and be separated from their friends and teachers for lengthy periods.

Alex Burghart is inviting everyone in Brentwood and Ongar to get involved in UK Parliament Week and join a UK-wide conversation about our democracy, people power and making change happen.

I am a great fan of a nicely turned out allotment, and we are fortunate in Brentwood and Ongar to have some fine sites on which many people grow vegetables, fruit and flowers each year.

News Release from Essex County Council - Final re-opening plans for Essex Libraries published

Some of the facilities most missed during the current lockdown limitations have been the wide open Spaces of Essex County Council's country parks especially, for us here in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency, Thorndon North, Thorndon South and South Weald. 

The beginning of this summer term comes in radiant sunshine and yet under a grim cloud. Pupils remain home for the foreseeable future. Schools, however, remain open.