DAY EIGHT - QUARANTINE IN AUSTRALIA

Dante has been getting bullied at school by one particular boy.

Steve and Bex have talked to the school about it, and hopefully it is getting sorted.

BUT... in the meantime, apparently Bex told Dante he should confront the boy involved and ask him to stop what he was doing.

Dante took it one step further.  The bully's mother is a teacher at the school, and seems our Dante walked up to her and said:  "Hello, my name is Dante.  Your son is bullying me and I would like you to talk to him about it"!  That kid has balls.  Very proud of him.

Oh and the teacher said she would indeed be talking to her son, and thanked Dante for bringing it to her attention. 😇😊

Next, another rather funny story:  Dante was driving Bex nuts so she said to him "Stop that or I will smack your arse", to which Dante replied:

 "I'm sorry, my arse is not available for that right now". 

 OMG that boy is so damn quick. And funny.

Just so ya all know, threatening to smack his arse was an empty threat, as she does not smack them.  

I may be thousands of miles away from the family right now... but because of video chatting and texts, instant messages etc, I really don't feel like I am.

It's just wonderful being able to keep in touch so easily, and to see and talk to them all.

I had a wonderful chat with Stew last night, it was almost like sitting next to him in the family room!  Except when he swung his phone around to show me Brylee, sitting in MY CHAIR looking like she owned it!  Grrrr!

Just wait till I get home, your butt is gunna be off my chair so fast young lady!

She cooked dinner last night.  They had sausages, mashed potatoes, veges and GRAVY.  Brylee would live on spaghetti, mashed potatoes and gravy if she could!

Now.  What's on my agenda today, besides waiting to critique food?

The building!

ABOVE: This is an aerial photo of the new building in relation to where I'm staying.  It's a virtual photo of the building obviously as it's not finished yet.  But still, I think it's neat.  

ABOVE: I watched in horror late yesterday afternoon as they craned up huge machines, and took down huge dumpsters full of rubbish!  Over rush hour traffic too.  Scary.

Righty ho... I'm off to start my traffic spotting, human spotting, food critiquing day!

ONWARD...

7.30 am:  Breakfast arrived.

My heart sank.

ABOVE:  Ummm... at least it was warm?

No fruit.  No croissant. No cereal bar.  NOTHING BUT THAT.

Just as well I have my cornflakes.

So, how about we give this 1/10... cos it was warm!

I've been awake since 4.30 am (again).  I did manage to fall back to sleep for a moment, until some twats in NZ rang me.  Time difference people!

We are 2 hours BEHIND here.  But yeah, it's still nice to see ya, talk to ya bla bla bla.

I've been shopping!

With Lacy and Brylee.

For glasses for Lacy.

Now by shopping I do mean via Messenger chat!

But it's as good as it gets right now.

Yesterday Lacy chose these ones:

But I said HELL NO!  They are far too big for your face.  Go back and try on more.

So she did this morning.

I got to critique the choices:

ABOVE:  After much ado... she finally found some that we all liked:

ABOVE: They fit her face much better, are nice and discrete on her and of course, they are PURPLE.  She's happy.  I'm happy.

Now she just has to wait 6 weeks to get them. 

10.21 am:  And the highlight of my day so far?

FRESH LINEN being delivered.

So I got to make my bed with fresh sheets.  I thought about spacing it out ... ya know.  Put the bottom sheet on.... and admire it for half an hour, then put on the top sheet and so on.

But 😖... I couldn't do it.  So, me bed's all made and looking beautiful again.

Next ... lunch in two hours or so.

I'm playing Patience.  So far I'm on a losing streak. 

ABOVE:  Help me out here.  I've not played Solitaire with actual CARDS in 20+ years!  Am I correct in thinking the only card that can fill a blank space is a KING?  So, if ya don't turn up a King on a third card... you can't do anything with those spaces?

12.05 pm:  Lunch arrived.

ABOVE:  It clearly states on the bag "No spices, no curries"  ... correct?

So, we have chilli homous AND in the little red pottle in the Chicken bowl is CHILLI SAUCE ... I dipped my finger in it thinking it might be tomato sauce.  OMG burnt me damn tongue!

At least adding the CHILLI to my food was optional.

The salad is actually delicious, once you take out the pumpkin.

I vomit if I eat pumpkin.  Not a good look.

So, even though they clearly cannot READ, I rate lunch a semi-OK  6/10.

4.06 pm:  I got a bit of a headache after lunch, so lay on the bed and tried to have a nap.  It's just NOT HAPPENIG.

Obviously I'm not physically tired enough to sleep during the day.

So I just lay there and listened to music.  And the traffic.  And the person next door jogging or doing star jumps or something!  Thump thump thump.  

ABOVE:  The traffic is building up ... peeps going home.  Endless traffic.  The only time those roads are quiet is between 2 am and 4.30 am.  Otherwise, it's either steady, or really, really busy.

Adrian from the Catering Company phoned me just before.  He asked me what I thought of last night's dinner.  Of course I told him it was amazing.

But... get this.  He said he would order that for me again for Friday night's dinner.

Hmmmm.... does that mean tonight's dinner will be the usual shit?

Time will tell I suppose.

I literally don't care any more.  I'm just fucking over this place.  Starting to feel really BLAH.

The daily nurse rang. "Good afternoon.  Do you have any Covid symptoms?  No, ok then thank you".  End of conversation.

Every day. Same phone call.

Never mind that we are all stuck in our rooms with virtually nothing to do but look at the TV or our computer screens.

Shit what if you didn't have a computer?

6.07 pm:  And you guessed it, dinner arrived:

ABOVE: In the left cardboard pot is mixed salad leaves and a tiny bit of shaved cheese.

  

In the right pot is two huge mushrooms, some aubergine, capsicum and onion.  It was warm.  It was quite nice.  

But, (I'm really NOT complaining)... I'm not actually a vegetarian.

There was no meat at all.

At least it wasn't a stew I suppose. I'm going to have some sliced ham from my stash in the fridge to add to that lot.

It was nice to get some fruit, first for the day.

Dinner tonight gets an average 6/10. 

I'm going to wrap up the day here and go have my dinner before it gets cold.

Catch ya tomorrow.