Hello Rufus - re the cruise ships, they were still coming into Burnie well after they weren't allowed into Asia and Tasmanians were really concerned about this. Being a small island with a small population it would not take much to wipe a great many of us out.
Terrible to read today that two young nurses in England have died from the virus, both leaving behind young children.
This is my personal nightmare, that my family could die from this virus, both working in supermarkets, still no protective gear as none is available.
They are obviously very frightened.
Wet again here today but meant to fine up later in the week.Must remember to put the clocks back but I don't suppose it would matter much if I forgot!
No seaweed gathering again, plenty of police patrols so they would maybe have to taser me and drag me from the shore
When you mentioned Nevil Shute the other day I remembered I had a stash of Arthur Upfield novels out in the shed. I have brought them in for when my library books are finished.
Used to enjoy Nevil Shute and Arthur Upfield.
Having five glazed bookcases plus seven or eight open ones I will not be short of books however! Always been a reader from an early age, never bored if there is a book to read.
Keep well Rufus 
Seeing as how they had to pull the rug from under your feet by cancelling the March lunch because of Corvid19, and to which you were lucky enough to score an invitation, I'm surprised they haven't scrubbed the rest for the duration. The April lunch could be interesting with "Virginia Nicholson" "How Was It for You? Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s" 
