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

 

Thursday 1 April 2021, 32 Days of Level 1 ๐Ÿ˜ท

Corona Gratitude ๐Ÿ™

#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!๐Ÿฅต; 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 ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ™; for a weird relaunch of Infusions on Long, each tapas dish containing cannabis ๐Ÿ˜ฑ, 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. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’™ Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 73 of Level 1, 2 December 2020.

 

Wednesday 2 December 2020, Day 73 of Level 1, Day 252 of Lockdown ๐Ÿ˜ท

Corona Gratitude ๐Ÿ™

#Grateful to all of you for your care and concern in KitKat having been taken away yesterday ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ฟ; for the luck of having pre-planned a lunch today with Hanlie Theron and Johnny Nortje, which distracted me from my sadness, and got me out of my home; for a lovely sunny day, but the wind now blowing strongly; for the request by my Canadian tour operator to
produce a โ€˜Christmas in Cape Townโ€™ video, what a fabulous challenge; for having my Community Cleaning team doing a deep clean with me this afternoon; for attending the celebration of the new showroom of Boutique Haute Horologie in the Waterfront; for Brian Van Hansen spontaneously saying yes to doing the Christmas video, with 15 minutes notice; for two Discovery Vitality Gameboard plays; and for being healthy. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’™ Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 55 of Level 3, 25 July 2020.

 

Saturday 25 July 2020, Day 55 of Level 3, after 66 days at Levels 5 and 4. ๐Ÿ˜ท

Corona Gratitude ๐Ÿ™

#Grateful for a sunny day, cooler at 18C, getting ready for rain tonight, with clouds moving in now; for having Joel to help me clean up Camps Bay, the two of us doing a deep clean; for bumping into David Smith twice in 24 hours, he teaching a German to SUP on the Tidal Pool, not having seen each other in about 10 years, last in my Camps Bay guest house days; for bumping into Lynne Gordon and Linda Gawronsky at the Tidal Pool again, and taking a pic of them with the SUPers in the background; for a short sun snooze on the terrace; for a trip back to town, putting in petrol proactively and fetching a slice of the Peppertree Cafรฉ Lemon Chiffon cake, they not having it yesterday, and baking it especially, because I love it so much ๐Ÿ™,; for enjoying a bottle of Durban Poison beer, just having a sudden craving for a beer, not drinking it often; for listening to Hope@Home on Tour, with beautiful baroque music by Concerto Melante from Potsdam; and for being happy and healthy. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’™ Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 40 of Level 3, 10 July 2020.

 


Friday 10 July 2020, Day 40 of Level 3, after 66 days of Levels 5 and 4 ๐Ÿ˜ท

Corona Gratitude ๐Ÿ™

#Grateful for the wonderful rain since yesterday, my pool water level climbing beautifully, and our new plants being very happy for all the water; for the breaks in the rain today, so that I could do a walk through Camps Bay, and twice through Bakoven, not getting wet at all; for the good timing of our Loadshedding, from 16h00; for a morning call with Janet Pillai, and a looong evening one with Jenny Stephens; for a little nap during Loadshedding; for dancing ๐Ÿ’ƒ to Kfm; and for being happy and healthy ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’™ Continue reading →