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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 9 of Level 1, 9 October 2021.

October 10, 2021

Saturday 9 October, Day 9 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a beautiful day, starting with good rain, and clearing to a 19C day; for being able to escape Loadshedding at 8h00 by having breakfast with Viv Warby at Zest, loving Chef Evidence’s breakfast, mine a Zest breakfast with scrambled egg and Viv’s Avo and feta on toast with halloumi on the side; for work when I returned, most of my posts being in honour of #PinotageDay today; for a glorious sleep, even though I had a solid 8 hour sleep last night 🙏; for a Bakoven walk; for a good Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 9 of Level 2, 21 September 2021

September 22, 2021

Tuesday 21 September 2021, Day 9 of Level 2 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a busy day, with an early start, having to be at Zest at 9h00 for a breakfast of newkings boutique hotel and Piazza da Luz staff, as a thank you gesture from owner Romao da Luz; for a chat and catch up with Michael MacKenzie who was also breakfasting at Zest, staying in the newkings hotel; for seeing Lynn Matthias, Therese Kallie and Renate Flint, who were attending a birthday lunch of 20 persons at Zest, a number of them being members of the International Women’s Club; for a quick shop at Woolies, and for being able to use the new Woolies NOW NOW Wifi when I Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 25 of Level 1, 15 October 2020.

October 16, 2020

Thursday 15 October 2020, Day 25 of Level 1, Day 203 of Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for another sunny day, at 22C; for another social and eating-out day; for a peaceful day and one of spoiling; for a short surprise visit for tea by Vivian Warby; for discovering Bo-Kaap Deli, now less than half the size of the former Batavia Café, meeting the owner Munier, and being impressed with the canopies erected over the pavements, given the reduced seating space inside; for a lovely catch up lunch with Michael MacKenzie at Oxalis Eatery in Wale Street; for chatting to Rafael and Marta, owners of OpenWine, which they have reopened on Wale Street, and meeting the most stunning Brazilian-South African Miguel there, singing my Blog praises – see the video 😱💙; for a walk through Camps Bay, happy to see that the City of Cape Town has erected safety barriers where the fence came down in the wind storm on Victoria Road, even if it took them two weeks to erect them; for a chat with Law Enforcement Officer Ivor Ramsay, always welcoming me into his office; for being happy for a big operation of removing Homeless structures around Maiden’s Cove and below Camps Bay High today; and for being happy and healthy. 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Gratitude for a wonderful breakaway in McGregor!

February 17, 2018

I spent four days in the village of McGregor last week, last having been there four months ago. I spent such a relaxing and special time there, that I wish to acknowledge with gratitude the contribution which each of the following made to me during my stay: