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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 134 of Level 1, 11 February 2022

 

Friday 11 February 2022, Day 134 of Level 1 đŸ˜·

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a busy day, and for goals achieved, with good time-keeping; for posting for my clients this morning and this afternoon; for getting photocopies of documents made at Wizards in Gardens (very slow service), having them stamped at the Cape Town Central police station (far more efficient than I expected), and for being very luck today be allowed to enter the Dept of Home Affairs at 15h05, with hundreds of people in the queue outside, to drop off all my paperwork at the Citizenship Department, the letter I’m needing to be able to renew my German passport likely to take 3 – 6 Continue reading →

Sweet Service Award goes to Labotessa Café; Sour Service Award goes to Department of Home Affairs!

 

The Sweet Service Award goes to Labotessa CafĂ© in the Hotel with the same name, and its owner Johan du Plessis.  The CafĂ© serves the most delicious Dutch-style apple tart and cream, and has become a special hide-away break on Church Square in the City.  On a former visit to the CafĂ© I had shared with Johan how wonderful the Dyptique shampoo which he had gifted me is for my hair. As I left the CafĂ©, his assistant handed me a packet with more Dyptique shampoo and conditioner. Yesterday I popped in for another slice of tart after a client meeting, and Johan and I had a long conversation in the cosy Dutch-inspired CafĂ©. He refused to accept my payment for the tart. Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 3 of Level 3, 18 June 2021.

 

Friday 18 June 2021, Day 3 of Level 3 đŸ˜·

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a glorious day, sunny again after the rain yesterday, so warm that I wore a sleeveless top; for getting most of my work done early this morning so that I could get to Somerset Hospital by 10h00ish, for my vaccination; for celebrating the vaccination with a tea and apple tart treat at Labotessa, spoilt rotten there with a gift of their lovely French shampoo and conditioner; for a shop pop in at Fideli’s Deli; for getting into Home Affairs easily but a wasted effort đŸ˜±; for an energetic walk in my secret Bakoven lanes; and for being happy, healthy and free. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 45 of Level 3 Adjusted, 9 February 2021.

 

Tuesday 9 February 2021, Day 45 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 340 of Lockdown đŸ˜·

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a beautiful day, warm, but windy now, making it hard to walk back home; for my housekeeper Portia doing a monthly spring clean, I doing so too on my desk, getting my admin work up to date; for Jared of Camps Bay Hardware delivering a new pool blanket, after the previous one disintegrated, at about one third of the cost of one bought via a pool company 🙏; for soon no longer being a contract client of Vodacom, receiving information about how to go about it; for a visit to CitiVet in Camps Bay, for Mr Grey’s vaccinations, driving with me in the car without a carrier, so well behaved there too; for a Camps Bay only walk, not feeling as energetic at the end of the day; for an uneventful shop at Pick n Pay, Camps Bay being quiet today with little litter; and for being happy and healthy . 🙏💙 Continue reading →