The Zombie Diaries
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izmeinaThings are looking up in Dursleyville
There are currently no COVID cases in the hospitals and soon they will be resuming elective surgery
Also, there has been only 1 new case in the last 10 days or so. With all this in mind, the state government are relaxing the rules as of Monday
So after 7 weeks, cafes will be opening again for seated customers with an upper limit of 20 people
Restaurants are also covered by the same rules but since their profit margins were pretty thin in BC times, there is simply no way that many of them can afford to reopen with such low numbers. I suspect that this will be the same situation for bars and hotels
The place has been like a ghost town since the big shutdown started at midday on Monday 24th March. Most of the pubs, restaurants and cafes closed down along with libraries, art galleries, museums and pretty much everything. The buses went to a Saturday schedule and the odd time I caught one there was usually only 1 or 2 other passengers.
On Wednesday 29th April, the schools started up again and suddenly it was like almost normal again. Even the Apple Store reopened last week.
Two weeks before that, I finally found a chemist that was not out of stock of masks and hand sanitisers
So now I will be plotting and planning a giant coffee crawl on Monday. Sitting outside at a cafe reading the newspapers is the thing I have missed the most over the last seven weeks. I have got myself access to the digital editions courtesy of my library card but it is just not the same reading a paper on a screen as opposed to outside at a cafe. It is simply too distracting
Unlike nearly most places in the world, I am not worried about being out and about. Due to the closure of the state border and mandatory quarantine for incoming overseas travellers, we are now down to only 5 active Covid cases in the whole state so the odds are very much in our favour
I am expecting the charity shops to start opening in June. It has been so strange to go for a whole seven weeks without buying one single book. Mind you, it's not that I actually need them. I could go for a good 5 years and still not run out on account of the stash in the Lair. Those critters are everywhere. i am not the crazy Cat lady but the crazy BOOK lady
Been using all the extra time at the Lair to do lots of gardening. Planting trees and baby weeds along with garlic and coriander and sitting in the garden just reading or lounging about watching the birds and critters and drinking endless cups of tea which is my main new habit
I did not leave the Lair today and also expecting to lurk here tomorrow too. After all, why bother going anywhere when I can wait till Monday and do everything with coffee. I am also craving for a fix of Malaysian noodles. Been doing a lot of home cooking over the last 7 weeks because I am just not used to eating take away with the single exception of Tokyo Underground Happy Hour sushi. I made that into a ritual. Every Tuesday I went into the city and timed it for Happy Hour at 3pm. It used to be 5pm in BC days. Unlike BC times, I could not sit at a table and read the paper so pottered off to a little area near some other shops with lots of nice wooden seats. All the seating inside the shopping centre at the food court was all fenced off
Now that the 9 state regions have been reduced to 4, I can also make the most of this in between period before the charity shops open to do some day trips by train to some country towns
There are currently no COVID cases in the hospitals and soon they will be resuming elective surgery
Also, there has been only 1 new case in the last 10 days or so. With all this in mind, the state government are relaxing the rules as of Monday
So after 7 weeks, cafes will be opening again for seated customers with an upper limit of 20 people
Restaurants are also covered by the same rules but since their profit margins were pretty thin in BC times, there is simply no way that many of them can afford to reopen with such low numbers. I suspect that this will be the same situation for bars and hotels
The place has been like a ghost town since the big shutdown started at midday on Monday 24th March. Most of the pubs, restaurants and cafes closed down along with libraries, art galleries, museums and pretty much everything. The buses went to a Saturday schedule and the odd time I caught one there was usually only 1 or 2 other passengers.
On Wednesday 29th April, the schools started up again and suddenly it was like almost normal again. Even the Apple Store reopened last week.
Two weeks before that, I finally found a chemist that was not out of stock of masks and hand sanitisers
So now I will be plotting and planning a giant coffee crawl on Monday. Sitting outside at a cafe reading the newspapers is the thing I have missed the most over the last seven weeks. I have got myself access to the digital editions courtesy of my library card but it is just not the same reading a paper on a screen as opposed to outside at a cafe. It is simply too distracting
Unlike nearly most places in the world, I am not worried about being out and about. Due to the closure of the state border and mandatory quarantine for incoming overseas travellers, we are now down to only 5 active Covid cases in the whole state so the odds are very much in our favour
I am expecting the charity shops to start opening in June. It has been so strange to go for a whole seven weeks without buying one single book. Mind you, it's not that I actually need them. I could go for a good 5 years and still not run out on account of the stash in the Lair. Those critters are everywhere. i am not the crazy Cat lady but the crazy BOOK lady
Been using all the extra time at the Lair to do lots of gardening. Planting trees and baby weeds along with garlic and coriander and sitting in the garden just reading or lounging about watching the birds and critters and drinking endless cups of tea which is my main new habit
I did not leave the Lair today and also expecting to lurk here tomorrow too. After all, why bother going anywhere when I can wait till Monday and do everything with coffee. I am also craving for a fix of Malaysian noodles. Been doing a lot of home cooking over the last 7 weeks because I am just not used to eating take away with the single exception of Tokyo Underground Happy Hour sushi. I made that into a ritual. Every Tuesday I went into the city and timed it for Happy Hour at 3pm. It used to be 5pm in BC days. Unlike BC times, I could not sit at a table and read the paper so pottered off to a little area near some other shops with lots of nice wooden seats. All the seating inside the shopping centre at the food court was all fenced off
Now that the 9 state regions have been reduced to 4, I can also make the most of this in between period before the charity shops open to do some day trips by train to some country towns
