Covid Blog 7

6 Apr

Gosh how time flies when you are having fun!!!

Yes it is now a week since I started this blog and it has been an interesting journey of witnessing and participating in the sudden stop of the world we once knew and adapting to the new normal of living at home!

Today was a lovely Autumn day with a cool breeze and lovely sun at various times. The temps were in the mid teens.

After catching up with the news on Sky in the morning it was time to look after the grandchildren for the morning with Robyn. Chris and Neats kids who are living with us whilst renovating their home, seem to have adapted well to being restricted to home.

The news of the morning was terrible for those in Europe and the US and I thought I should put in a call to a friend from my AECOM days, Paul Schwartz. He is located in NYC which is going through a terrible time with the pandemic. Paul and his family are ok thankfully and he appreciated the check in from his mate in Australia

After the obligatory takeaway coffee from Zimt I bought bread and treats for lunch and proceeded on my ride along the Koonung and Anniversary trails

There was a lot of families out enjoying the weather, walking or riding bikes and gaining some well earned exercise away from their homes

After the ride it was off to IKEA to but some new bench stools for the kitchen... as I said yesterday the IKEA shop is not easy with navigation required to find the items to be purchased... I found the stools and picked up the flat packs. The number of shoppers at IKEA were less than yesterday thankfully!

Arriving home it was time to take Cooper and Mykala on a walk around the streets near home looking for teddy bears in the front windows of houses in our neighbourhood

There was delight for the kids seeing several houses with bears in the windows... a successful trip all around.

At home again it was time to open the flat packs and assemble the stools... if there is one ting that I hate it’s assembling furniture like this. First unpacking the articles from all the cardboard and plastic.... then trying to understand the instructions ( always seem to be in a foreign language) ... then using those silly Allen keys to tighten the bolts and screws

Anyway this seemed to work well and in no time the stools were de boxed and assembled ready for use for dinner.... a success!!!

All in all it was a good day of success and it seems that we are all contributing to the social distancing which is a good defensive strategy for Covid

Now for the photos

A view of a park with closed play equipment