Friday 21 August 2020, Day 4 of Level 2, Day 148 of Lockdown.😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a lucky spoilt day today, in fact an extension of a fabulous spoil week ❤️❤️❤️; for a beautiful sunny day, our warmest day so far this week at 20C, being able to wear shorts ; for being spared Loadshedding today, but having done all my writing early this morning to accommodate it, which gave me twice the morning time to do other admin tasks as well 🙏; for a quick walk to Bakoven, being short of time, a 2000 step walk compared to the 4000 step Camps Bay one; for a spoil afternoon, starting at Mai Thai Spa in De Waterkant, a wonderful combination facial-massage, with fabulous head and hand massages with strong pressure ❤️; for Krisjan Rossouw from the next door Deepest Darkest Art Gallery waiting for me with a bottle of Bottega Prosecco, taking me next door to show me his photographic portrait art in his gallery, and sharing house purchase disasters; for a quick shop at Spar down the road, not having been there in ages; for dropping in at Pilcrow & Cleaver In Parliament Street to bring owner and Chef Judi Fourie a bottle of ADHARA extra virgin olive oil for Women’s Month, having a glass of silky smooth Doolhof Pinotage, and chatting up a storm with a lawyer sitting there too whilst waiting for my delicious Seafood dinner, which Judi comped 🙏 #thankyou; for dancing to Kfm to get back to my normal step goal; for the good news that my Hermanus house sale deal is watertight now, and that I hand it over to the purchaser in ten days 👏👏👏; for a victory in our block, having two maintenance jobs I requested approved; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙

My Sweet Award today went to TakeaLot, and my Sour Award to Discovery Insure.

Sweet Service Award goes to TakeaLot; Sour Service Award goes to Discovery!

I met Linda of the internationally award-winning Mai Thai Spa and Krisjan of Deepest Darkest Art Gallery at the first Mozambik dinner ten days ago. Linda very kindly invited me to try the Spa, an offer I couldn’t refuse, not having had a facial in years. The therapist was very quiet spoken, and had a firm massage hand, doing the most amazing head massages, more than one, and adding potions and lotions to my skin, what a treat. #Thankyou Linda. Jennifer Morris

I ordered a Seafood dish at Pilcrow & Cleaver, a mix of fried calamari, octopus, baby squid, and white bait, with a potato and saffron dipping sauce…. oh drool. I loved chatting to the lawyer Milton, who looked like one with his black suit, so strange to see anyone in a suit, only the second person I’ve seen wear one during Lockdown. The fabulous escapist massage and glass of bubbly must have gone to my head, asking him why he was so formally dressed on a weekend day… 😱😂. He paid me a fabulous compliment about those who react to my Blogposts with urgent High Court interdicts……. 💙

#Lifeisgood ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

SA Corona Status: 603338 cases 12843 deaths 😷😢

FitBit 11000 steps 7,7 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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