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Corona Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 174 of Level 1, 23 March 2022

 

Wednesday 23 March 2022, Day 174 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a cool start to the day, with rain and a thunderstorm at 5h00 this morning; for preparing for client status meetings; for Minsky coming back home after her longest overnight gallivanting, being away from home for more than 24 hours, so worried about her 😻; for good meetings with newkings boutique hotel and Zest Restaurant Cape Town, with exciting projects lying ahead; for a shop at Woolies and Spar in Piazza da Luz; for the kind optometrist in the Point Mall Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 97 of Level 1, 5 January 2021

 

Wednesday 5 January 2022, Day 97 of Level 1 😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for a lovely day, combining work with leisure; for a longer sleep than usual, just over 7 hours; for getting my client work completed; for meeting Gary at the newly opened Cabo Beach Club , the former Shimmy, having been so badly destroyed that its interior was completely redone, but it still looks familiar, having a second birthday lunch, Gary Peterson insisting that I should be spoilt with such a generous treat 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏; for a shorter meeting today, only meeting with Zest as my newkings hotel client was ill; for fabulous service from Jared of Camps Bay Hardware, having a Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 85 of Level 1, 24 December 2021

 

Friday 24 December 2021, Day 85 of Level 1, Christmas Eve 🎄😷

Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for no enhanced Lockdown restrictions over the Festive days 🙏; for the excellent news that the USA is dropping its travel ban from 31 December, and that Belgium too has reduced its restrictions relative to the southern African countries; for getting up early to finish most of my work by lunchtime; for a Bakoven walk; for taking Henry for Christmas Lunch at Zest, his first visit there, my Christmas Feast for today, and lucky to be served by the bubbly Josie Milner 🌹 ; for the efficient Continue reading →

Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 28 of Level 1, 28 October 2021.

 

Thursday 28 October 2021, Day 28 of Level 1 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#grateful for making the best of today, with 5 hours of my working day being affected by Loadshedding, using some of it to catch up on sleep, a walk in Bakoven, and shopping at Ultra (looking very different) and Spar (looks like a mini-Ultra when you walk in); for getting my Dinkel rolls and free range eggs; for doing a large part of my writing after the first Loadshedding this morning, at 2h30 😱; for a good meeting for Utopia and Anatoli, with a spoil of biscuits for tea, I joking with my client that they were to celebrate my first anniversary of working on the Utopia Continue reading →