Good Evening Good Friesday

Good Evening Good Friesday.

Loyally observed our traditional “Fish on Friday” lunch today,, supplemented with chips, fried Dim Sim and fried potato cake, even though the temp. reached 32C, 12C above average and the hottest Good Friday since 1935, if I heard her right.
This Mancunian is a stickler for tradition, although our Easter Eggs remain untouched in the frig! Simply opening the door might cause them to collapse, but Easter Monday will be 21C, so it will be an egg-fest Monday; no hiding them in the garden, even if snails are cowering in their shells in the shrubberies trying to keep their cool.!

Think I”ve caught up with sleep deprivation now; three nights in a row since leaving hosp. of 10 hours of motionless, painless sleep, only broken this morning by an unexpected telephone call at 10.am from the District Nurse asking if she could come early to refresh dressings, seeing as how it’s a Public Holiday and her parents were arriving from Adelaide. That woke me up!

Very quiet out there on my way to the Chish and Frippery with Freda. Traffic well down of course and hardly any “foot-traffic” as pedestrians are called these days; probably due to a combination of heat and most shops being shut for the Public Holiday.

Our Neil and Brisbane branch phoned Easter greetings earlier; they know me as a stick-in-the mud, refusing to use gizmos such as i-pads, lap-tops’ iphones and the like!
They have just come out of yet another 5 day lockdown (in time for Easter!) and Neil laughed at the rush of traffic heading out one minute after midnight “to beat the traffic”, only to create a really big traffic jam of their own.
His family are holidaying at home because of uncertain wet weather; in Brisbane of all places! One up for Melbourne!

Michael P. is now beginning to irritate me with his exclusive one-on-one priviliged tours; less about the railways and more about him feeding his face on local delicacies, some of which he’s tried to make or trying his hand at crafts that have taken locals years to perfect.

Tony Robinson is now trudging through Scottish borders. Never having been there, didn’t realise there was so much countryside!

Nothing much Covid-wise that you need to know; the usual blame games continue between Federal and State experts, this time about the slow roll-out of vaccines.
Think I have to wait another 10 years, so that will be at least the 5th. variant!.

Hoping my 10 hour sleep mode doesn’t become permanent just yet, but what a nice way to shuffle off the coil.

Good Health
OoRoo