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Always look on the bright side...

1/4/2020

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Let’s look on the bright side of this awful virus.

The good news:
  • Lots of small children now have Mummy and Daddy at home with them all day.
  • AND, lots of Mummies and Daddies have all day every day to play with their children – only interrupted by the need to get some work done. (Ha!)
  • Families have the chance to play together for seven days of the week.
How good is that?

Then there’s:
  • Dogs are getting lots of walks.
  • Petrol is cheaper. (Or it should be). Except we’re not buying as we’re not going anywhere!
  • We are buying what we NEED and not what we WANT.
  • We are saving plastic bags.
  • We are cooking more at home.
  • We are using every speck of every piece of fruit and every vegetable…there is less rubbish.
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(When I say ‘we’ I am assuming that ‘we’ are all doing the right thing!)

  • Home haircuts are free.
  • Kindness is showing in several ways.
  • No matter what we think about how our government has coped (or not), many people are being looked after in one way or another.
  • The roads are quieter.
  • Air pollution is much lower in most urban areas.

AND:
  • Beijing has blue sky – and there have been reports of birds in the Beijing sky.
 
 
BUT, some not-so-good news:
  • Even in Australia we don’t seem to have enough respirators.
  • So many businesses have had to close.
 
  • We are not always remembering how privileged we are to be living in a first world country.
  • WE can self-isolate – some people can’t.
  • WE can stay two metres apart from all others - some people can’t.
  • WE can be a ‘prisoner’ in our own comfortable home – some people don’t have a home at all.
  • WE can go out to replenish food supplies, as long as we are careful about our own well-being. This is often not the case for people in many third world countries.
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I keep saying that I won’t go out to shop anymore. It’s not worth the risk.
BUT yesterday morning I donned a pair of disposable gloves and braved the fruit market just after 7am. There was hardly anyone there. I grabbed a trolley and piled in fruit and vegetables. Picking up a rockmelon (remember, they’re no longer ‘cantaloupes’?) one finger of a rubber glove was torn. Luckily, I had made doubly sure of safety and anointed my hands with sanitiser as well as wearing gloves!

Despite the higher than normal prices, I managed to buy a decent amount of fresh food for just over $50.
Home before 8am.

These are strange times indeed.

We must keep ‘doing the right thing’. Somewhere there is a tiny light at the end of this long and gloomy tunnel and, hopefully, when we reach it, we will all have a new appreciation of what is important.
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Have I mentioned before that, even before COVID-19, I would never, ever, have gone on one of those horrendous cruise ships?
 

Keep safe. Keep well. Wash your hands.
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  • About me
  • Short stories
    • Death in the Desert
    • Secrets
    • Airport Drama
    • Acacia
    • Two Chooks in December
    • A Darned Surprise
    • The Sunset Mermaid
    • Friend or Foe?
    • At Rainbow's End
    • Sisterly Love
    • Good Times to Come
    • Being Famous
    • Something Special for Dinner
    • Walter's Secret
    • The Visitor
  • Children's stories
    • The Red Silk Kite
    • The Singing Tree
    • Beatrice Barnfeather
    • Garth's bath
    • Little Dog Tambo
    • Flowers For a Special Day
  • Non Fiction
    • Letter to a Soldier
    • The Body
    • Autumn Saturday
    • A Year With Billy
    • Lunch
    • Harry's Story
    • 2007 bushfires
    • My Father's Kite
    • Death of a Chook
    • Gentle Heartache
    • Shopping with Sisters
    • When I am Old
    • Matilda
    • Fragments
  • Blog