Social distance photo shoot interrupted

Here at Jacwicks we like to be helpful. 
​With all these new social distancing (SD) rules which seem to change on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis it's not surprising to be a bit confused.  Just for fun, I'm going to share ways of measuring safe social distancing when you're out and about without a tape measure. 

When you're out and about with your trusty Perch and you need to practice SD, remember each perch is a certain size which can be used to measure distance.   

Take the Pocket Perch this is 40cm wide, if the SD rule is 2m just take the Pocket, mark your starting point flip the Pocket over 5 times and you have 2m.  If the SD goes down to 1m that 2.5 flips.  The handy quilting marks help with .5 measuring. 

If you have a PIxy Perch at 30cm wide, the flip rate is 7 for a just over 2m distance. Or 3.5 for a 1m distance. 

The Poly and Pet Perch’s are 80cm in length,so that’s only a 2.5 flip rate. 
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We had a day on the moors taking photos to illustrate this, (you may have seen the photos on the Jacwicks Facebook page).  We were getting on quite nicely with the sheep and lambs, when out of the corner of my eye I could see a large black cow coming towards me.  Cows are fairly intelligent and communicate with each other and I think she wanted to see what all the fuss was about to report back to the others.   I was half way through the photo shoot but duly retreated, in the hope she would lose interest and mooove on.  No such luck, she decided we were so interesting she called all her mates over to see.  Photo shoot was quickly abandoned and we left them to their munching on the lush grass.  

Note to self, always check for wildlife. 

For some it’s so lovely to be able to see loved ones and friends again in the bubble environment and its times like these it can really bring home what's truly important.  My deepest sympathy goes out to those who have lost someone to this and many other dreadful diseases, for you these are the most testing of times.  Through dark days I find a walk in the country really does heal the soul and can be an item in the toolkit to better times.   

In the meantime hug those you can and dream of the day when you will eventually be able to hug those further away.  I can't wait until the day I can hug my gorgeous sons again. 

Until the next time, stay safe and happy perching,

Ruth x