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After twelve weeks of literally going nowhere except to work or to buy groceries, I have now cautiously been planning agreeable appointments for my weekends again (in accordance with the precepts of my guru Marjorie Hillis, author of 'Live Alone And Like It').
Last weekend I had a friend over for tea on the Saturday, and another friend over for lunch on the Sunday. The weekend before that, I visited an artist's studio with a friend, and had a really interesting chat, and also went to my dressmaker with another friend (support for a local SME!) and ordered some new outfits both for myself and for my housekeeper. The weekend before that, I did more local SME-supporting, and bought some masks from a social enterprise making handwoven fabrics.
Today I went a step further, and explored a nearby shopping-centre that I had hitherto mostly ignored, and found a Korean butchery (very high quality meat, not cheap, though not as expensive as Japanese), and a shop selling Indian spices and food products, from which I bought several substantial packs of different beans, bean flour, fennel seed, cardamom etc. There was also a bakery that sells extremely nice meat pies, one of which I had for lunch.
Then I went out and bought two little lacquer tea caddies, which fit nicely into the spaces left in an old wooden tea caddy that I found in a flea-market some years ago. Its two compartments had lost their original tin linings, and I had been looking for some way to make it usable again, but couldn't find a tinsmith able to do such small-scale and fiddly work on an antique. So getting standalone tea-caddies and putting them inside seemed a reasonable compromise.
I am feeling mildly adventurous, though still with a tendency to twitch nervously when people get too close.
Everyone is supposed to be wearing a mask outdoors, and they all seem to be, at least in this part of town, which is reassuring. People are generally being careful about distance too.
I'm worried about my relatives in Melbourne, which has a big resurgence of COVID-19 cases, and now also apparently has many people refusing to be tested for COVID-19 because they think it's a conspiracy of some sort. Luckily my relatives are all sensible people, but who knows about the other people they might come into contact with? Denial and psychological upset over a very difficult situation are real things, but they cannot be allowed to wilfully endanger the whole community. People have to get over themselves and accept their responsibility to the common good. Or no more holidays in Bali for the next decade or two.
Last weekend I had a friend over for tea on the Saturday, and another friend over for lunch on the Sunday. The weekend before that, I visited an artist's studio with a friend, and had a really interesting chat, and also went to my dressmaker with another friend (support for a local SME!) and ordered some new outfits both for myself and for my housekeeper. The weekend before that, I did more local SME-supporting, and bought some masks from a social enterprise making handwoven fabrics.
Today I went a step further, and explored a nearby shopping-centre that I had hitherto mostly ignored, and found a Korean butchery (very high quality meat, not cheap, though not as expensive as Japanese), and a shop selling Indian spices and food products, from which I bought several substantial packs of different beans, bean flour, fennel seed, cardamom etc. There was also a bakery that sells extremely nice meat pies, one of which I had for lunch.
Then I went out and bought two little lacquer tea caddies, which fit nicely into the spaces left in an old wooden tea caddy that I found in a flea-market some years ago. Its two compartments had lost their original tin linings, and I had been looking for some way to make it usable again, but couldn't find a tinsmith able to do such small-scale and fiddly work on an antique. So getting standalone tea-caddies and putting them inside seemed a reasonable compromise.
I am feeling mildly adventurous, though still with a tendency to twitch nervously when people get too close.
Everyone is supposed to be wearing a mask outdoors, and they all seem to be, at least in this part of town, which is reassuring. People are generally being careful about distance too.
I'm worried about my relatives in Melbourne, which has a big resurgence of COVID-19 cases, and now also apparently has many people refusing to be tested for COVID-19 because they think it's a conspiracy of some sort. Luckily my relatives are all sensible people, but who knows about the other people they might come into contact with? Denial and psychological upset over a very difficult situation are real things, but they cannot be allowed to wilfully endanger the whole community. People have to get over themselves and accept their responsibility to the common good. Or no more holidays in Bali for the next decade or two.
