How are you coping with lockdown? Are you under the harshest restrictions, or will these be relaxed? You may have heard that the whole of South Australia went into strict lockdown for 6 days (effectively ‘house arrest’) due to an outbreak from a quarantine hotel and a ‘cluster’ of positive cases – but after 77,000 Covid tests, with 4,000 in quarantine, ‘they’ decided to relax the restrictions after 3 days, as a hotel worker who doubled up as a pizza bar employee had misled the contact tracers about his involvement…
I’m reading some really good books on iBooks / Kindle: ‘HMS Ulysses’, by Alastair Mclean, about an ill-fated Arctic Convoy in 1942, and I’ve just started ‘The Cruel Sea’, written in 1951 about the Battle of the Atlantic.
Also, ‘The Hiding Place’, by Corrie Ten Boom, an autobiographical account of a watchmaker / clock repair family in Haarlem, Holland, that doubled up as a hideaway for Jews escaping from the Nazis during the WW2 occupation – Corrie ended up spending 6 months in the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp, surviving to tell the tale… An inspirational story and a great read, and easy to access via iBooks.
Summer is now upon us, heading for a couple of 40 degree days at the end of the week – and so, back to bushfire alerts and ‘catastrophic danger’ days… Ah! What a year!