An ice-cream favourite farewelled, a baby to welcome and feeling invisible: the latest installment in our Lockdown Diaries series.
I’m submitting my first entry at 2am. The deadline for our diary entries is 11am, but I haven’t been able to get out of bed before 11:30am since lockdown began, and that’s with the help of my four-time lockdown buddy and housemate Nic, who’s no longer around.Up at night is part of the lockdown routine.I’ve gone for a midnight walk to clear my mind. Beats lying in bed for hours daydreaming about tomorrow’s numbers being minus-1000 and the government announcing a free statewide holiday to Bali.
The fragility of the financial state of my business, managing next week’s orders, trying to give staff shift hours if possible, trying to find the right balance with customers to be upbeat but also portraying how things are hitting us during lockdown, trying to find our feet in a takeaway only world.
Then visited one of our wards to chat with the nurses about the COVID and flu vaccination campaigns and PPE requirements as this is currently a moving feast with guidelines changing to keep pace with the COVID spread. My sister Catherine was dancing around and shoving her fingers in my face. She was ignoring my Yia Yia who was telling her to get off the iPad and sit down and stop being annoying.We didn’t have any lunch at home so we walked to Under the Sea fish and chip shop in Yarraville. We never normally have fish and chips for lunch. We also bought cream and eggs to make scones for girl guides because we had to make an English food. I got some of the scone dough on my hands and started eating it.
The good thing was I wrote a really awesome snapshot about Cedar Glen, a farm stay in Queensland. We were supposed to go last year but it was cancelled because of COVID.Michelle Topple - Michelle is an ICU nurse, a daughter, a sister, a partner, an aunty and a friend who is a keen snowboarder, wanna-be surfer and the ultimate slow runner!
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