Canberra has escaped relatively unscathed from COVID-19 (so far). We had a spate of cases right in the beginning, but almost all of them were from returning overseas travellers and their close contacts. There was a single case in June from a diplomat returning from overseas. And in July there was a few linked to a family returning from Melbourne during their spike in cases.
Life for us hasn't changed too much. As I said at the beginning, for us it just meant seeing less of our friends and not eating out as much. As those restrictions were lifted some months ago, we have been able to catch up with friends more often, and we've been out for meals more often.
We're mostly doing our shopping fortnightly so we don't need to go to the shops as often. We've done some shopping at the markets and I get most of our milk and orange juice (and beer!) from Chris's. And our last two big Coles shops have been delivered, so we haven't set foot in Coles in over two months.
I think I'm about the same weight as pre covid. I would normally eat lunches at the food court every day so that hasn't been happening, but I would also get quite a bit more walking in. I'm still going for a short walk at lunch every day and seeing three or four groups of magpies. Lunches are either leftovers or noodles or toast or whatever. Not terribly healthy.
Our work drinks are still closed, although that may change soon. During the six months of the lock down we drank through eight cases of Corona beer. In the last couple of months the guys that have been in the office have gone up to the Pot Belly for Thursday drinks. While it's good and all, it's *very* expensive compared to drinking at home, or even at work.
We've been encouraged to come into work to work more often. Which is a shame because I could happily work from home and *never* go into the office. But they won't let us do that. So on Thursday I went into work - for only the third time since March - and exactly six months to the day that I started working from home. I'll probably go in once a week to start with, unless we get an outbreak here.
Travelwise, the trip to Europe with Mum got postponed two years. I found it somewhat ironic that the whole reason the Passion Play in Oberammergau came to be was because of a plague. And this year they had to cancel (postpone). Because of a plague.
Our cruise next year has finally been called off. But again this one has been postponed a year. Let's just hope there's a vaccine developed in the next year otherwise even then things will be in doubt.
We missed out on going to Tasmania for Stu's 50th, but did have a nice long weekend in Tumut which was really nice.
How's everyone else's lockdowns going?
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