Coronavirus: How do I juggle my job, the kids, a dog and an elderly dad?

Charlotte Cripps is panic buying for her 87-year-old dad and wondering whether he should move in with her. It puts her in mind of the time her dad met Alex

(Amara May)

I’m a single mum, navigating coronavirus with two kids, a dog and an elderly dad. The logistics are impossible to work out: how will I leave my kids to care for my 87-year-old father if he needs me? I’ve been panic buying for him but got into deep water when all his frozen food was delivered to my place: I only have a three-drawer freezer. Do I get my dad to move in with me if we are all on lockdown?

The two-bedroom flat is barely big enough for me, the kids and Roseanna, the nanny, let alone him. But I can’t leave him alone off the Upper Richmond Road West. He still works in his accountancy firm and travels on the bus to work. How is he going to cope with self-isolating?

If only Alex was here, we would be living in a bigger house by now, and I could offer my dad a room. But I can’t imagine my dad and Alex under the same roof – even if there was an emergency.