Category Archives: vaccinations

President Ramaphosa keeps SA at Level 1, selected mandatory vaccinations coming!

 

In a speech to the nation this evening President Ramaphosa announced a number of measures to prevent the spread of the new Omicron variant.  Thankfully regulations remain at Level 1, it was announced by the President.

The President opened his Speech talking about the new Omicron variant, praising our South African scientists for their dedicated work in identifying this new variant.  He said that the variant has more mutations than the other variants, it can be detected by tests, it differs from other variants and is not related Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 57 of Level 1, 26 November 2021

 

Friday 26 November 2021, Day 57 of Level 1, #BlackFriday 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a day of extreme contrasts, waking up to the dreadful news of the UK putting us back on the Red List, with the rest of the world (or so it seems) banning flights from our country, the UK, Germany, and the USA bans hitting our tourism industry particularly hard, my clients and tourism players devastated today, but we’ve been through tough times before and we will survive; for a wonderful 7 hour continuous sleep, and then firing away with the work which needed to be done this morning; for the rain holding off when I was in town to attend a Brand talk hosted by Tania Olivier, meeting such lovely marketing girls sitting next to me, exchanging restaurant news, especially about Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 49 of Level 1, 18 November 2021

 

Thursday 18 November 2021, Day 49 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a Thursday with a difference, my Thursday Status meetings moved to tomorrow, Utopia doing extremely well in being fully booked until the end of Monday; for Cape Town having a new Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, the youngest City Mayor ever at 34, and for all our Councillors being inaugurated today; for the weeds having been removed from ‘my’ stream at the Tidal Pool by the City Parks department, after my request to Nicola Jowell; for an uninterrupted day of client work, with no Ebbtide maintenance issues to attend to 🙏; for a walk to Bakoven and to the Tidal Pool; for a warm Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 22 of Level 1, 22 October 2021

 

Friday 22 October 2021, Day 22 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a cold wintry day, with rain threatening, but only a few drops have fallen so far; for making it easy to do my client posting this morning; for the surprise call from Viv, meeting at Bootlegger Bakoven, for a catch up lunch meet, having to leave when the first drops of rain started falling, so excited for her good news 👏; for finishing my Bakoven walk steps, but needing more dance steps to get to a minimum of 5000 steps today; for my three city clients fully booked tonight Continue reading →