Saturday 21 August 2021, Day 26 of Level 3 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for another fabulous day, with a number of firsts; for seeing so many heart clouds and a stone, collecting the latter a passion I share with Heidi Klum Gala reported today; for getting my work done in good time this morning, allowing me to be out and about all day; for tea with Rose Klein and Hans-Werner Klein; for a tea treat at Tryn Restaurant at Steenberg, dropping off the Adhara olive oil prize to Chef Kerry Kilpin, one of our 2021 Top 10 Women Chefs; for an amazing exhilarating walk with Rose from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay and back, 11000 steps in total, walking directly alongside the ocean, seeing beautiful marine murals at St James Tidal Pool, my first visit there, only ever having driven past it; for tea, and shared carrot cake and scone at Ohana, a cafe with tables and chairs on beach sand, with the Hawaiian name for ‘family; for celebratory ice creams at Bootlegger Muizenberg; for great Kfm Blokparty music tonight; and for being happy, healthy, and free.🙏💙

My Blogpost today was an introduction to Isabella Niehaus, another of our 2021 Top 10 Women Chefs. 👏👏👏

Meet Chef Isabella Niehaus of Langtafel: 2021 Top 10 Woman Chef!

I highly recommend the walk from Muizenberg to Kalk Bay, something completely different, only half of it being on the pavement. I loved the sea smell and marine murals. 👣👣👣

A massively loud party is brewing in our building tonight.

SA Corona Status : 2 680 225 cases 79251 deaths 10 499 974 vaccination

FitBit 13000 steps 9,5 km 👣

Lovemylife❤️

 

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, and returned to Level 3 on 26 July, 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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