Travel
Quarantine diary – Day 12
Are these posts becoming tedious yet?I wake up feeling a little lonely and abandoned. Everyone else is busy and getting on with their lives. Of course I'm trying hard to fill my days with purpose but there's no getting away from the fact that the Helath Department's...
Quarantine diary – Day 11
There is better news on the Oscar front today.After yesterday's stress, I woke at 4am this morning and found it difficult to settle again. I'm starting to feel a bit abandoned by the world outside as it continues with its daily life. In any case it's not long before...
Quarantine diary – Day 10
Quite a traumatic day today. Until now I've accepted the constraints of my quarantine, though not agreeing with them, but today I really wished that I was not confined in here.I wake to the news that my beloved Oscar is not well, panting, not wanting to walk or eat...
Quarantine diary – Day 9
Today's main event is another PCR swab test with two jeunes arriving with the grown-up Noo-Noo person purifier.I know the routine by now, and don't sit by the door waiting for them. Instead I prepare chair, bin, HKID card and tissues as instructed and get on with...
Quarantine diary – Day 8
Into the second week of my quarantine, then, and so far the time has gone surprisingly quickly. But time does seem to have a habit of doing that. I can't believe, for instance, that three weeks ago I was just setting out from Toronto on The Canadian; that it's only...
Quarantine diary – Day 7
As you read this, I am at the end of my first quarantine week and halfway through.(Yes, I've always crossed my 7s. I've done it since primary school, charmed by this exotic way of differentiating 7 from 1. It's proof of my early visceral Europeanness.) Hm, well I'm...
Quarantine diary – Day 6
Friday. My favourite day of the week starts early, because I went to bed early (for me) the night before.I ponder how to fill the day. I can't do a workout at 5.30 because it would wake my neighbours. Instead I potter around, tidying. I'm not a congenitally tidy...
Day 60 – Victoria or Aux phoques!
[wpgmza id="2"]A highlight of my trip was my visit to Victoria on Vancouver Island, a short journey away by seaplane, and the prospect of seeing some wildlife.It was the first time I'd ever been in a seaplane and the prospect filled me both with excitement and...