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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 42 of Level 1, 11 April 2021

 

Sunday 11 April 2021, Day 42 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a very relaxed and calm day; for getting work finished, addressing a feedback email which needed diplomacy; for having my cats sharing my bed when I write in it, Minsky being lights out after another late night of gallivanting; for a sleep catch up; for a snooze on the terrace on a lovely sunny 23 C day; for a power walk that I didn’t think I’d have the energy for, tackling the 100 steps of Houghton steps, and incorporating the Camps Bay Promenade, very busy, DJs at Mynt, Caprice, The 41 and Tigers Milk trying to compete for the loudest and best music 😱; for earning 300 Discovery points; for a beautiful sunset; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 39 of Level 1, 8 April 2021

 

Thursday 8 April 2021, Day 39 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a calm and peaceful day, well-organized, with a little time squeeze around midday, but it all worked out perfectly; for another special beautiful day, at 23C; for getting my writing work done in good time; for a power walk on my secret Bakoven path, getting 300 Discovery points, just a few steps away from my halfway goal; for collecting my rolls at Dinkel, and some cold meats at the Continental Butchery on Kloof Street, making it to my meeting on time; everything is up to date at Utopia, and I am very excited to have just doubled Utopia’s Instagram followers since I took over the Utopia marketing less than 5 months ago; for a visit to the Waterfront, excited to buy a new iPad Air at Apple, five generations ahead of my very outdated one, the one on which I do all my writing 😱; for a shop at Woolies Waterfront; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙

My Blogpost today was about the opening of Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen’s Restaurant KLEIN JAN at Tswalu Private Game Reserve Kalahari, owned by the Oppenheimer family. Amazing reader interest in this Blogpost.

Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen finally opens his Restaurant KLEIN JAN in the Kalahari, most expensive restaurant in SA!

I start my day with a read of my Sag Horoscope. Bizarre how yesterday it referred to a woman in business, and the phrase ‘out of the blue’. Could not have been more apt, and how amazing! Referring to Diane Armstrong of Out of the Blue!

SA Corona Status: 1 554 975 cases 53173 deaths 😷🥲 283629 vaccinations

FitBit 9000 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, 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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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 35 of Level 1, 4 April 2021

 

Sunday 4 April 2021, Easter Sunday, Day 35 of Level 1. 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for Minsky coming back home, very worried, 11h00 being the latest homecoming ever 🙀😻, she exhausted and sleeping all day; for a few drops of rain, making the Cape Town tradition of the start of winter being over Easter true, very overcast all morning, but clearing this afternoon; for Banele coming to clean Camps Bay and Bakoven with me; for playing Easter Bunny by handing out Easter eggs to the Camps Bay CSI car guards; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 32 of Level 1, 1 April 2021

 

Thursday 1 April 2021, 32 Days of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Gratitude for a well organized day, using a do-list, ahead of the Easter weekend; for getting my work done in good time ahead of my client meeting; for a good cardio workout on my secret Bakoven walk before I left for town, receiving 300 Discovery points; for putting in petrol, using more than a tank of petrol this past month, fueling up at BP on Regent Road, with Oupa offering excellent service, not deserving this name in his youthful age; for dropping off my Bedlinen at the Laundry next door; for fetching my Dinkel poppyseed rolls; for collecting an order from Lazari in Gardens; for playing Ms Easter Bunny, hopping about town doing deliveries; for an unusual but good client status meeting at Utopia; for being proud of my self-love, in walking out of a tea/coffee meet with my longest standing friend, when she disparaged me and tried to play Taurus mother to me in telling me what to do – one such Taurean mother in a lifetime was enough!🥵; for a royal treat by Chef Judi Fourie of Pilcrow & Cleaver, offering me a glass of Mooiplaas vino, with which I ordered a cheese board, with Brie, figs and unusual cumin shortbread 💙🙏; for a weird relaunch of Infusions on Long, each tapas dish containing cannabis 😱, for a lovely letting-go walk on the Mouille Point Promenade; for Minsky waiting for me at the door when I got home; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →