Good news after our weekend lock down, it wasn't extended as a lot of people thought, myself included. However, we are required to wear masks if we are inside buildings, not our own of course but offices, shopping centres etc.
Our tax appointment went ahead, we put our masks on just outside their door, we were early and the two office workers were not wearing masks but put them on when they saw us. One thing with wearing masks and glasses, the glasses fog up after awhile. As neither of us needed to read anything, it was easier to remove the glasses.
Tax done in twenty minutes, was told it was a boring return. We have a small amount of shares which don't make any difference to our return but we need to advise ATO of them each time. Working on a way to get rid of them, then tax returns hopefully will be a thing of the past.
I shopped early this morning as Warren had an appointment, I should go early each time, not Too many there and everyone walked in with their masks on. At this stage masks are required until next Friday.
Suddenly on Friday morning our state govt announced a lock down from three days starting from 6pm.
Only allowed to go out for essential services and exercise then needed to wear a mask once out of the front door.
We had had one case of a cleaner at a quarantine hotel testing positive and another case of a woman coming back from overseas, she had tested positive, been in quarantine in Melbourne for ten days, cleared, flew to Brisbane where she tested positive. Both these people have the nasty strain that is hitting the UK at the moment.
I was due to do grocery shopping on Saturday but went Friday lunchtime instead. It seemed many other people thought the same. After I got my trolley, there were only two left, didn't appear to be that many in the actual shops but the queues for the check outs were 20 deep at each aisle. Empty boxes lined the shelves as they were struggling to keep some staples on the shelves. I got everything that I wanted except pumpkin and I grabbed some sweet potato instead.
Warren has taken Lucy out for a walk, I have gone outside to our bins a couple of times. Got some tasks done that have been sitting around for awhile and watched cricket and crochet.
We have an apt to do our tax on Wednesday, we may or may not make that, time will tell. Going to have a nana nap now, with tv and crocheting my eyes are sore.
This was a movie that was recommended to us to watch. Sometimes we find movies books or what have you that other people have watched are not really our cup of tea.
This one however was different.
It tells the story of a small country town and their football team, but it more than that, it touches on family relationships, racial prejudices and community.
I found myself laughing out loud at some of the scenes.
Aussies are known for their bizarre nick names and there were some rippers in here. Some had an explanation and others not. One was Porterhouse, when his name was mentioned, everyone would come back with "well done", he was the chef at the pub.
School shoes was another nick name no idea why. An Aussie movie but we could only recognize two of the actors.
The change of year is not going to make Covid suddenly disappear but hopefully we are getting closer to Covid being less of a threat with the vaccine becoming a lot closer.
We had a quiet night at home and went to bed early as per usual. Before we went to bed, we unpacked the pantry, strange time to do it I know but we discovered a mouse, we assume, was trying to get in there. I had been out in the kitchen and noticed some flakes on the floor, I showed Warren and we decided that a mouse was chewing at the edge of the pantry door, the flakes were paint flakes. Didn't find a mouse but there was a box of noodles on the floor, a couple of packages had holes in them and lots of loose noodles.
We didn't find anything but that and thankfully no mouse droppings so he is not living in there. Our pantry door is usually left open but Warren had closed it when he put the dishwasher on.
Apparently Lucy came into our room around midnight, Warren said he woke and saw
her with her ears up and eyes like saucers. She could hear the fireworks, they didn't last
very long.
Park run was on this morning and Warren run a PB for the year!
Yesterday we went to Dayboro for a few caches and morning tea. There is a great bakery out there and seating on the two sides of the balconey.
It's a nice country drive to get there and we continued on through the town to a small park, where there was a possibilty to collect four caches. The first one was tucked away in the base of a big tree, we had had to walk 150 metres from the carpark and Warren let Lucy of her lead as it was in a quiet area and noone else around. She loves being able to run free but she always keeps us in sight.
Next cache was a puzzle that I had solved months ago and we had to walk under a bridge, the road was above us by about ten metres. Getting close to pylons, I saw a snake skin that had been shed. It was only a small one maybe a foot long and about the size of my thumb. Thankfully the area was quite clear so we could definitely see where we were putting our feet.
Coffee time after all and we sat in the park with Lucy. We grabbed another two caches on the way out of town, there are about ten or eleven puzzles that I have solved to pick up. The geo art makes a heart so once we get them all it will revert to a pretty smilie heart.
The day started early for me, Warren went to tennis and I had asked him to wake me when he went. I love my sleep ins but if it's hot then its really too hot to walk Lucy at 9am.
It was cool when we set out then I did what I wanted/needed to do in the house. A nice coffee and an espiode of Virgin River, a series I have been watching. Damn it appears I have watched all of season two. Hum, it would have to be Jack Irish which is almost an hour long. Watched one, then another Warren came home and got interested and so we watched another while we had lunch.
Between my morning of Netflix and tonight, I finished a pair of gloves. I think I will do more of these, they are easy but the pattern only just fits me. I do have rather large hands but I will add another couple of chains so they fit better.
