BIT OF THIS, BIT OF THAT...

Well... it's the start of Stew's 2nd week on 'holiday', but he has to take a conference call at 9 am.

We think it will be about closing the office, well all the offices throughout the country in fact.
He works for a Government company, so it won't come as a surprise if it is that.

I'll let ya know once we know.  It won't affect him too much right now, as he is ON HOLIDAY. Once he's back to work they can do a lot of their work from home, so life will go on.

ABOVE:  Unlike Wally, who has nowhere to hide now that the crowds have gone home!  It was too funny not to share.

My pie from last night came out just lovely:

ABOVE:  Pulled pork and tomato, delicious.

ABOVE:  This would be our view this morning ... if we had managed to get to my Mum's house in Coffs Harbour.  Fantastic day there yesterday.  I hear talk that Australia is going to close the Victoria and New South Wales borders... kinda glad we didn't get there now!
We would be stuck there for sure.

And now... I will leave you with the latest photo of Steve, taken yesterday after he had a shave:

ABOVE: Without the bushy facial hair, you can see very clearly his weight loss.  I hope he gains back the weight soon... and is back to being his normal smart arse self ... fast.


ABOVE:  Another little video I took yesterday, might as well share it.


ONWARD...

10.19 am: And ... Stew's business has closed it's doors to the public, and most of them will be working from home. As we expected.  Of course, Stew is still on holiday, so he isn't really affected until he gets back after April 14th.

For now, I think he will do 'some' work from home, just keeping up with emails, and anything that he really has to have a hand in.

Lacy is away right now, up north visiting friends.  I've told her if/when she comes back she has to be prepared to stay home and not go out unless absolutely necessary.  It's going to be tough... cos she likes to get out and about, and also, she risks death by MOTHER.

LOL... I'm sure she can find a way to not annoy the f#*k out of me every 5 minutes.

OH yeah... there's always the windows.  Every single window in this house needs cleaning.  We held off doing them when we moved in because of all the dust we created with putting the pool in ... but now?  No reason not to get on to them.

10.45 am: UPDATE ON STEVE:  Another good night!  So relieved.  Gosh it will be awesome if he is truly on the road to recovery.

ABOVE: And there ya go... washing done and hung in the sun room.  We have a wet day again, which is wonderful.  So nice and cool.

Happy to report Steve and Bex are pulling the kids out of school and kindy to safeguard all of them, but in particular Steve, who's immunity is severely compromised due to the medication he is on, and his current health status.

Our country is awaiting a broadcast from our Prime Minister right now... quite possible they will be closing down all schools anyway.

And there ya go.  The country as a whole is going into lockdown.  Everything is closing in 48 hours.

Everyone must self isolate.  EVERYONE.

This is a scary new world we are living in right now.

All our FBG walks are cancelled for the foreseeable future.
That doesn't mean we can't go for a walk, it just has to be on our own.

4.29 pm:  And for the first time ever?  Stew has gone to bed with a headache!  Not sure why, but I think it could be down to him not sleeping well.

I know we both toss and turn on our bed... but I simply don't want to buy a new one right now.  
As I said the other day, we don't want to run up any debt now that we actually have NONE, except our mortgage.

That was the whole reason for moving here, drop our mortgage and clear all debt.  Which we did. 

7.35 pm:  Dinner tonight was chicken drumsticks on top of rice.  It was just OK.  I don't have any sauces to add to the baking dish.  I'll try and get some next time we venture out to the supermarket.

ABOVE:  I'm knitting.  More on that ... tomorrow.

Signing off now... it's going to be a very quiet evening.