Tuesday 12 October 2021, Day 12 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a busy day, having to leave home at 10h00 and spending most of the day at Zest; for welcoming Ward Councillor Nicola Jowell to Zest, where she set up her Mobile Office, to meet Sea Point residents; for working from the restaurant until my very productive Status meeting with newkings boutique hotel this afternoon; for trying my new favorite dish at Zest, a Zest Salad, massive and full of the freshest goodness; for a quick shop at Woolies; for a new change taking place at Piazza da Luz, the lift going up to newkings and Zest being turned around, to be entered from next to Tops, and not behind it anymore; for Minsky coming home in the early hours of the morning after a night out on the town, for the first time in months 😻; for a Bakoven walk; and for being happy, healthy, and free. 🙏💙

My Blogpost today was the Restaurant Review of Gigi Rooftop at Gorgeous George Hotel, where Gary Peterson and I dined on Sunday. Sadly not all gorgeous 😱

Restaurant Week Dinner at Gigi Rooftop, Gorgeous George Hotel, sadly not all gorgeous!

I may have to seek Wifi elsewhere tomorrow as the City of Cape Town is threatening to Loadshed us in Camps Bay from 9h00 – 16h00 tomorrow for urgent maintenance work… as if Loadshedding isn’t bad enough. 😱

Restaurant Week is extending its special restaurant offers to 14 November, Anatoli being one of the participating restaurants.

Ute Hermanus will present her review of dinner at Utopia last night on Good Hope FM at 21h40 this evening. 🙏

SA Corona Status:  2 912 938 cases 88429 deaths 19 461 202 vaccinations

FitBit 7500 steps 5km 👣

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, and returned to Level 1 on 1 October 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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