Self Isolation Day 24. I Begin to Fear for my Sanity.

Well, we had cocktails a bit earlier today and I watched a handsome young man on the opposite balcony making sure he's ready for when we're allowed back into the world as we knew it. After the Daiquiri incident, we have cut back on the alcohol ,slightly. We have stopped discussing whether we should only drink on weekends. One of us ,without consulting the others, just makes sure some sort of alcoholic beverage is in the daily shopping bag with the vegetables.

We've been waking in the middle of the night now the daughter and I, not getting back to sleep for ages and then sleeping the morning away. It takes up some of the day, a sad fact of quarantine after you enter the fourth week. Another sad fact is that a woman of my cleaning sensibilities, (a woman who has been known to iron pillowcases ) has now turned the sheet around on my double bed twice and turned the cover over. Please don't judge me harshly, I have washed the pillow cases a couple of times. None of us are particularly keen on going for our walks any more as I, for one, am familiar with most of the doors and their knockers and I'm on first name terms with some of the plants. I have given up wearing jewellery and my hair by the end of the day has it's own life force. The daughter is not seen so often with the broom any more. We have progressed to three pots of coffee so just after consumption, we become quite talkative and then we all retreat.

I can't imagine what it's like being isolated on your own. I'd probably survive, having discovered last year that I can go for long stretches without human companionship, but what about the extroverts? It's not the being alone, it's what happens when you're not living in a pack anymore. The only time we come together as a neighbourhood is at night to clap. Our day evolves around coffee time and wine time, with snacks in between. I am ashamed to say that today I bought some sort of French cheesy, puffy rice snack and I ate it with chocolate and it was good. It was very, very good. I now fear for my sanity.

A friend I made on my walk.