Tuesday 9 February 2021, Day 45 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 340 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a beautiful day, warm, but windy now, making it hard to walk back home; for my housekeeper Portia doing a monthly spring clean, I doing so too on my desk, getting my admin work up to date; for Jared of Camps Bay Hardware delivering a new pool blanket, after the previous one disintegrated, at about one third of the cost of one bought via a pool company 🙏; for soon no longer being a contract client of Vodacom, receiving information about how to go about it; for a visit to CitiVet in Camps Bay, for Mr Grey’s vaccinations, driving with me in the car without a carrier, so well behaved there too; for a Camps Bay only walk, not feeling as energetic at the end of the day; for an uneventful shop at Pick n Pay, Camps Bay being quiet today with little litter; and for being happy and healthy . 🙏💙

My Blogpost today was the review of the new ëlgr. restaurant at which Gary Peterson, Thomas Hohnke, and I ate last week.

Restaurant Review: New ëlgr. has most complex restaurant name, a breath of fresh air, food light and multi-cultural!

I have to renew my German passport, so decided to make an early start. I will have to persevere with nerves of steel to deal with the bureaucracy and rules in getting this done, starting with proving that I am still a German citizen, and then bring endless documents. One has to make an appointment to bring the documents, but it is like finding a needle in the hay stack to find out where the link is hidden, only to find that they have run out of new appointment dates, and that one has to keep trying to get an appointment. Oh boy, patience will be needed. Luckily a fabulous receptionist helped me to find the link over the phone.

I had one good operator and one terrible one in trying to divorce Vodacom today. I’m so keen to get them out of my life that I will pay what they say is still due. 😡😡😡

I wrote a proposal this afternoon and am holding thumbs…. 💙

So sad to read about the passing of TV producer Anne Myers. May she RIP. 😷

SA Corona Status 1 479 253 cases 46869 deaths 😷😢

FitBit 10000 steps 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, 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, and extended but relaxed on 1 February, 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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