Friday 4 September 2020, Day 18 of Level 2, Day 162 of Lockdown 😷
Corona Gratitude 🙏
#Grateful for a very successful and well organized day, having written my Blogpost for the day last night already; for getting my head together in writing a summary of issues relating to overcharging by Sandak-Lewin in numerous respects, needed for a meeting with my lawyer this afternoon; for not having Loadshedding at 12h00, giving me extra time to complete my summary, and to do a walk through Camps Bay, so excited to see Firefly open today, only serving beverages this weekend, and food from Monday onwards; for a quick pop in at Dinkel Bakery to get my favourite poppy seed roll; for fetching my restrung pearl bracelets from FreeRange; for a very productive meeting about Sandak-Lewin with my lawyer, finding it hilarious that they are managing agents for the Keerom Street building in which my lawyer has her chambers too, and she had little nice to say about them as well; for a shop in the Garden’s Centre; for a second Camps Bay walk, seeing The 41 and Mantra Café having reopened today; for being invited to The 41 by Marius Blanc as I walked past, not only offered an Aperol Spritz but also gifted a brightly designed mask; for a lovely sunset, taking photographs at the Tidal Pool; for a lovely 18C sunny day; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙
My Sweet & Sour Service Awards went to Woolworths Camps Bay and to LandsCape Art Garden Centre, respectively.
For the past week I’ve been collecting information about payments made to Sandak-Lewin, discovering that I’ve been paying for BnB expenses too. I found how the Bnb affects Body Corporate electricity usage in our building (three out of 4 apartments), it being sky high in the summer months when their apartments are full. And I discovered that the UIF deducted from the salary of our Building Manager has not been paid over to the Department of Labour in the past two years, because of the hassle of getting him registered, I was told. My lawyer described this as ‘thievery’ 🥵🥵🥵
Hartlief at the Garden Centre has done away with its Covid testing, no temperature measurement or sanitizing. 😱😷
Loadshedding is about to happen, so I’ll dance the rest of my steps to my playlist by candlelight. 💃💃
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Oh wow, one very quick hour of Loadshedding and the lights are back on 💡👏👏👏👏👏
SA Corona Status 635078 cases 14678 deaths 😷😥
FitBit 14000 steps 10 km 👣
Lovemylife❤️
The Corona Virus Lockdown (Level 5), announced by our President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier to commence on 27 March 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, and lowered to Level 2 from 18 August, 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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