Day 63 of lockdown... Today was a relatively long day... I admit I was pushing the boundaries slightly by trying to stay out absolutely as long as I could as my next time out shopping legally is only on Monday. Sounds like I'm serving jail time if I put it like that... To be honest... It does feel like that at times. Being punished for all the sins I've committed in my life I suppose... I wonder if saying I'm sorry will get me out of lockdown? 🤔
Photo 1 is of the dead quiet La Croisette Grand Baie center where I do most of my shopping. It always gets to me.. Coming up the escalator expecting throngs of people and then seeing NOT even one. Apart from the police that is.
Before going shopping I took a long drive.... This is where it took me... Ask no questions hear no lies. 🤐😉
Photos 4 and 5 my friend's husband sent me of the deserted @V& Waterfront in Cape Town.
These 2 photos was taken by a friend. I have his permission to use them.
It's so eerie, i visited in December, it's one of my all time favorite places to go to and I've NEVER NOT seen people there. 🙄 It's very disconcerting to see this, I'm not sure how I would have felt experiencing it in person. This will go down in the history books, the ones our grandchildren will learn from. The time of Covid-19. 🤐
On a more personal level, I've been battling a severely strained wrist today with absolutely no idea how I hurt it.
I had a friend fixing a pain plaster on it to help me cope with the pain but if it doesn't get better I'll have to see the doctor. Hoping it will be better by Monday. In the meantime I'll try and nurse it and not do anything to make it worse. 🙏
On my rounds I splurged a tiny bit. Firstly when at another friend's business I found these gorgeous and fabulously breathable face masks...
Heaven knows.. If someone told me 6 months ago I would be singing the praises of a face mask on FB I would have thought you batshit crazy.. 😂 (excuse the french) Now however.... Having /being forced by law to wear one when leaving home I may just as well wear a pretty and functional one rather than just functional.. I am a girl after all. 😂 Try their website http://www.tulipandlace.co.za/ to get your mask.
Secondly I succumbed after almost 2 years and bought a little tiny travel hairdryer. Seeing that it's cooler at night these days but still sleeping with the fan on for the mozzies I'm so over sleeping with wet hair. 😂
I've not used a hairdryer in almost 18 months. Not even when i was in SA on holiday that's how used I now am to wash and wear.. Another heavens forbid something that I had to forgo due to the heat and humidity here. Well.. One seems to get used to the weirdest things these days. 😏
Absolute last thought for the day.... Standing strong these days aren't always that easy. But seeing the humor in things does help.
Goodnight and sleep tight everyone! ❤️
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