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Think I need to keep doing these so later I can look back and see it was real, not just a terrible nightmare.
The days are starting to run into each other. Neither of us has left the flat for days, not since Ray went to buy bread, milk and try and find the zinc supplement we used to take before all health products with any claim to boosting the immune system vanished off the shelves. Otherwise we don't seem to have shortages, unless you want hand sanitiser and aren't prepared to be at the supermarket when the doors open (which may or may not work).
Woman downstairs stood out on the path and yelled up at Ray for hammering and sawing and Making a Noise. Serious lack of class there, no coming up the stairs and knocking on the door for her. He wasn't even making much noise, unlike a few days ago. At least he's found something to keep him busy. She's probably run out of cigarettes. God, let me never be that person!
Have baked my own bread (nice milk loaf), cooked the hottest peri peri chicken livers I've ever eaten (and paid for it afterwards), and chatted a lot on the phone. Had a video call with the family - Shiloh's hair is almost down to her waist now and Gia climbs on everything and has fallen in love with wearing Shoes! - which left me a little depressed. Michelle started isolating them before we officially locked down, so I haven't seen her or them in weeks.
Covid-19 figures rise here but slowly. The health minister is concerned because we're not fitting the projections but says not to be fooled, we are in the calm before the storm. They are starting widespread testing now they've had a chance to get set up, so we shall see how things look after a few days of that - they're sending out mobile units now, rather than waiting for sick people to come to them.
I don't know if we'll only have three weeks of this, I can see the president adding a few more if the numbers take off. And then I'm not sure how some people will eat. Too many very poor, dependent on unskilled work, of which there is none right now. He looked very tired when he spoke to us on Monday -- he's doing a great job with limited resources and potentially a tsunami bearing down on him. He's proved an unexpectedly good war leader this far - I'd forgotten how it felt to respect a politician. (experience of the past ten years means I had to touch wood when I wrote that).
Thing I have had underlined for me this past week: we need to be kind to one another and kind to ourselves and accept the sometimes odd ways people have of coping. Even family members. Especially family members.
The days are starting to run into each other. Neither of us has left the flat for days, not since Ray went to buy bread, milk and try and find the zinc supplement we used to take before all health products with any claim to boosting the immune system vanished off the shelves. Otherwise we don't seem to have shortages, unless you want hand sanitiser and aren't prepared to be at the supermarket when the doors open (which may or may not work).
Woman downstairs stood out on the path and yelled up at Ray for hammering and sawing and Making a Noise. Serious lack of class there, no coming up the stairs and knocking on the door for her. He wasn't even making much noise, unlike a few days ago. At least he's found something to keep him busy. She's probably run out of cigarettes. God, let me never be that person!
Have baked my own bread (nice milk loaf), cooked the hottest peri peri chicken livers I've ever eaten (and paid for it afterwards), and chatted a lot on the phone. Had a video call with the family - Shiloh's hair is almost down to her waist now and Gia climbs on everything and has fallen in love with wearing Shoes! - which left me a little depressed. Michelle started isolating them before we officially locked down, so I haven't seen her or them in weeks.
Covid-19 figures rise here but slowly. The health minister is concerned because we're not fitting the projections but says not to be fooled, we are in the calm before the storm. They are starting widespread testing now they've had a chance to get set up, so we shall see how things look after a few days of that - they're sending out mobile units now, rather than waiting for sick people to come to them.
I don't know if we'll only have three weeks of this, I can see the president adding a few more if the numbers take off. And then I'm not sure how some people will eat. Too many very poor, dependent on unskilled work, of which there is none right now. He looked very tired when he spoke to us on Monday -- he's doing a great job with limited resources and potentially a tsunami bearing down on him. He's proved an unexpectedly good war leader this far - I'd forgotten how it felt to respect a politician. (experience of the past ten years means I had to touch wood when I wrote that).
Thing I have had underlined for me this past week: we need to be kind to one another and kind to ourselves and accept the sometimes odd ways people have of coping. Even family members. Especially family members.
