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[todayiamadaisy]

End of financial year business has been keeping me occupied these last few weeks. I'm not in charge of organising end of year stuff in this job, just doing pieces of work as required; but being in local government, there are a good few more statutory pieces of work required. Plenty to do

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[mouse]

What a busy bee you are at work. Variety sounds good in a job.

Poor Alistair, he must have been very shook up.

I bought two new masks yesterday (with filter pockets) to go with the three I already have. I need plenty to wash and rotate, especially when I get to Manchester where they have a small rise in infections which has prompted some lockdown restrictions. No family or friends gatherings indoors or gardens, no wedding receptions and such for the time being. There's a new mantra - hands, face, space. Basically a reminder to wash hands, cover face and social distance. You'd think everyone would know this by now but no, a remarkable amount of people (many youngsters) just don't understand why we must ALL do it.

Your cheese scones look delicious, I think they are my favourite type of scone.

[todayiamadaisy]

Poor Alistair, he did look sorry for himself that evening. I suppose it was the come down after the adrenalin rush.

Our daily updates have started to include stories of people breaching the lockdown. Someone yesterday apparently claimed they were driving from Melbourne to Wodonga (a three-hour trip) to get a Big Mac!

[stasia]

Those scones look delighful. I'll definitely try them.

I'm glad Alistair isn't injured, and I agree with him. That dog clearly needs more watching.

We haven't gone to mandatory masks (we're failing at this so hard), but the town I live in, whihc is a college town, is planning a mandatory mask ordinance. We'll see if it holds up. I wish people here would get with the program and just wear the stupid things.

[todayiamadaisy]

The scones also freeze well, which is handy for a two-person household that can't eat a whole batch of fresh scones in a day. :-)

We are in a holding pattern with the virus: the replication rate is just over 1, so cases aren't going up and up and up, but they're not going down either. We're just... stuck. It looks like we're going back to a harder lockdown to try and break the cycle.

[emma2403]

I'm pretty sure Alistair lost his dignity when you started walking him on a leash :D . But jeez, stupid dog (as much as I love dogs) attacking like that.
(And I'm only kidding about the leash, I think it's a great idea actually).

Lol you're at the have-to-stop-making-masks-due-to-lack-of-elastics phase of the pandemic, I see. Don't worry we've all been there ;). We ended up taking elastics from old underwear when the shortage was at its worst :D.
Now of course there is elastic everywhere, nobody buys it and most people wear disposable masks anyway.

I want those cheese scones!

[todayiamadaisy]

We haven't resorted to underwear elastic yet for masks. T-shirt material, cut into thin strips and rolled works brilliantly. :-)