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. 🙏💙
My Blogpost today was about Anatoli joining Restaurant Week, which was launched today, and running for a month, until 2 May.
It is so sad when a friendship of 62 years just evaporates over a pot of tea, without warning. I’d seen the writing on the wall in the past year of Lockdown, but today was the final chapter! I am grateful for our past friendship, but the verbal abuse and bossiness which I had to endure today was beyond acceptable and reasonable, expressed with judgement, and with no spirituality. Not the way friends treat each other. 🥵
Infusion on Long has new owners, hence the relaunch. Everything is very green inside, not looking appetizing for food at all. I lasted there for half an hour. Barely anyone except I wore masks.
I’m grateful for surviving the past 4 days, crammed with work, including creating the copy and concept for a brand new website, for launching Restaurant Week today, and for getting on to Dineplan for the first time for a client. My head has been spinning this week. But now a wonderful peaceful weekend lies ahead. ❤️❤️❤️
The city centre of Cape Town was very busy, with crazy drivers. I have never hooted so many times in one day, to avoid collisions. And the city is full of KZN and Gauteng cars, who are not sure of where they need to turn or drive. 😱😡
It is so lovely to see how the recent rain has led to the nasturtiums popping up all over the garden again. 💙
SA Corona Status 1 549 551 cases 52897 deaths 😷🥲 269102 vaccinations
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, 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.
Chris von Ulmenstein, WhaleTales Blog: www.whaletalesblog.com www.chrisvonulmenstein.com/blog Tel +27 082 55 11 323 Twitter:@Ulmenstein Facebook: Chris von Ulmenstein, My Cape Town Guide/Mein Kapstadt Guide Instagram: @Chrissy_Ulmenstein @MyCapeTownGuide
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