Monday 24 January 2022, Day 116 of level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a relatively cooler day, with a South Easter blustering this afternoon; for a very busy writing morning, posting for clients and a newsletter deadline coming up; for my visit to the dentist to remove a broken implant turning out to be better than I feared, he not getting the implant out but able to add a new one as well as a new bridge, without any pain, and no bill; for a scrambled egg and toast treat at the WCafe at the Waterfront, both the egg and service not being as good as usual 😱; for a Camps Bay Beachfront walk with a Gibson’s vanilla cone; for being lured into The 41 where Emma offered me a Pink Gin, just what I needed after a rough ten days🍹💙! ; and for being happy, healthy and free. 🙏💙

Alex and Patryk were lucky that Patryk’s coat in the boot of the rental car was not stolen when it was broken into whilst parked at Platteklip Gorge when they hiked up Table Mountain. .But Alex lost his sunglasses, powerbank and cash.

SA Corona Status: 3,582,691 cases 94625 deaths  29,452,653 vaccinations 

FitBit 5000 steps 3 km 👣

LovemylifeandloveGaryslife 💙❤️

The Corona Virus Lockdown (Level 5), announced by our President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier to commence on 27 March 2020 and to continue until 16 April, subsequently extended to 30 April, lowered to Level 4 from 1 May, lowered to Level 3 from 1 June, lowered to Level 2 from 18 August, lowered to Level 1 from 21 September, and moved back to Adjusted Level 3 from 29 December,  extended to 15 February on 11 January 2021, extended but relaxed on 1 February, and relaxed back to Level 1 on 1 March 2021, moved back to Adjusted Level 2 on 31 May, moved back to level 3 on 16 June, and moved back to Adjusted Level 4 on 28 June, extended by two weeks on 11 July,  returned to Level 3 on 26 July, returned to Level 2 on 13 September, returned to Level 1 on 1 October,  and the Curfew Curfew lifted on 30 December 2021 is an unprecedented event in my lifetime. I am posting my daily Facebook post to journal this Corona Lockdown Journey, perhaps to serve as material for a future Book.

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