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Saturday 18 July 2020, Day 48 of Level 3, after 66 days of Levels 5 and 4. \ud83d\ude37<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Saturday 18 July 2020, Day 48 of Level 3, after 66 days of Levels 5 and 4. \ud83d\ude37<\/b><\/p>\n
Corona Gratitude \ud83d\ude4f<\/u><\/p>\n
#Grateful for another \u2018summer\u2019 day today, even though a little cooler than the beautiful day yesterday; for a trip to the Southern Suburbs, wanting to check out Quince Restaurant in Diep River; for meeting Facebook Friend Colleen de Villiers for the first time, and Friend Louisa Andrews Stroebel for lunch, chatting away whilst eating healthy salads; for checking out Constantia Emporium for the first time, its brewery restaurant being a member of the Facebook Food Delivery & Collection Group, and for meeting Duane and Anastasia of Beer\u2019d Food Truck, also a Group member, who generously offered me a lovely portion of hake and chips to take home, as a thank you for the work done for the Group, amazing \ud83d\ude4f; for a quick shop for German treats at Hartlief at High Constantia; for a good walk through Camps Bay, for bumping into Lisa Hayden and her dad Jonathan, with an amazing small world of connection between Jonathan and one of my sisters, for bumping into saxy George Sax; for seeing the Camps Bay restaurants doing well this weekend, especially Tigers Milk, and for Ocean Blue having reopened today, having announced its permanent closure previously; for the lovely sunset; for seeing a new set of 10 chicks of the Egyptian Geese family; for shopping at Pick n Pay, so busy that we had to stand in a queue as in pre-Lockdown; for another lovely concert by Daniel Hope of Hope @ Home on Tour from L\u00fcbeck and its Bach ending in particular; for looooong chats with Jenny Stephens at the beginning and end of the day; and for being happy and healthy. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n
The Little Orchard nursery and Quince Restaurant are on the same property in Diep River, and the service at the nursery was really disappointing. I bought strawberries, chives, and some other plants I didn\u2019t know the names of and unmarked, with no planting instructions provided. It looked shabby and unkempt, and no manager\/owner on site. \ud83e\udd75<\/p>\n
I wanted to experience Quince, having seen their offering in their posts on my Facebook Group. We sat outside, at a table next to a family who brought their dogs, leading to a lot of barking at other dogs and at a waiter, not quite what we planned. It was wonderful getting to know bubbly Colleen ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/23E55365-4831-4066-AA3C-B093035CFAC5.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\")
de Villiers and to hear how well Lulu is doing in her commercial rental business. Quince has a two-room restaurant inside and the outside seating, plus a Deli, selling mainly jars of preserves and bottled fruits. I met Rael Abramowitz in the shop and Graham Isaacson who runs the kitchen. It was hard for me to extract information about the newish restaurant from the two owners. They also offer Food Collection and Delivery.<\/p>\n
I hadn\u2019t been to the Constantia Emporium before, predominantly consisting of a Checkers, and smaller shops, including a Woolies Food. I wanted to buy an ice cream at The Creamery, but they wouldn\u2019t take cash, and I finding it silly to pay (an expensive for one scoop) R41 by card! It was great chatting to Black Beer\u2019d Food Truck owner Duane, and fortunately business has been going well for them throughout Lockdown.<\/p>\n
I was surprised to see how very busy it was in Constantia, when I drove past, from Silvermist Vineyards to the circle at Constantia Nek, packed with cars. I couldn\u2019t see what attracted so many persons to the area.<\/p>\n
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On arriving back home, I met the new tenant Rob living in the apartment block until December. I did not hear any noise from his apartment in the past 24 hours, amazing. \ud83d\udc4f. We had a lovely chat, and I shared with him the \u2018cat fights\u2019 in our building, pardon the pun.<\/p>\n
Pick n Pay incorrectly charged three items out of four I bought, the till price being higher than the shelf price. \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n
In thinking back on my day in the South, it concerned me greatly in how non-evident any Corona protocols were. No sanitizing anywhere, alcohol drinking observed, no client register, no temperature taken, and paper menus taken back, hopefully to be destroyed after our use. The only Social Distancing was at Checkers, with a queue to get inside. Outside Restaurant tables at Quince are too close together.<\/p>\n
SA Corona Status: 350879 cases 4248 deaths \ud83d\ude37\ud83d\ude22<\/p>\n
FitBit 10000 steps 7 km \ud83d\udc63<\/p>\n
Lovemylife \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n
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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, and lowered to Level 3 from 1 June, 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.<\/b><\/p>\n