Sunday 16 May 2021, Day 77 of Level 1 😷🥲

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a quiet and peaceful me-day, being proactive in writing three Blogposts for the week ahead, as well as an afternoon nap; for the fabulous peace and quiet in our building, with only one tenant left; for missing out on Loadshedding tonight, and planning around that for the next two days; for a lovely refreshing two hour walk, up the 100 Houghton Steps, fetching the two McWilliam brothers who are helping me clean up Camps Bay for their Rondebosch Boys High Community Service project, finding litter in bushes left by homeless persons; and for being happy, healthy, and free 🙏💙

I’m having a mild panic attack about the Special Levy threatening at my apartment block to fund the crazy Maintenance quote of around R1 million. If anyone has experience in how to deal with this as an owner I would appreciate your advice.

At one of the places we cleaned up today, sometimes a homeless sleeping place under a bush, we found the weirdest litter, it intriguing the learners, with a medicine chest of various tablets, an asthma pump, specs, flip flops, gloves, socks, and more. 😱

SA Corona Status: 1 613 728 cases 55210 deaths 😷🥲 478433 vaccinations

FitBit 8000 steps 6 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, extended but relaxed on 1 February, and relaxed back to Level 1 on 1 March 2021, 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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