So there's a few people on Instagram cooking and drinking their way through #selfisolation and they seem to be doing it with a certain amount of panache. Hence when the daughter suggested yeeros accompanied by her pickled onion (but then couldn't face it after the trauma of last night's rice paper roll filling that took longer than she expected and split, a scenario she hasn't quite recovered from) but couldn't face making it, I volunteered. I ended up in a similar situation as I suggested I make pita bread from scratch. It was good I have to admit but slightly fiddly. But I digress, in order to keep myself company during the having no proper measuring devices, kneading, rising (carrying it from warm spot to warm spot on a cold day) and making of said pita bread, I created the Ruby Red cocktail. Gin, Creme de Cassis. red wine and frozen berries (the berries are because we have no ice trays) Any quantity will do. It's all good.
That day we also received an order of #Yankeecandles. It made our day. We gathered around as the parcel was opened, we sniffed, we smelt, we felt all was right with the world even though it wasn't. I went for my walk and found two more self distancing chairs. What a day!
If that wasn't excitement enough, the daughter went shopping and found eyebrow dye. After dyeing hers and her partners, she offered to do mine. As mine were rapidly disappearing in a forest of distressingly white hairs that were appearing, I agreed to the procedure. Over and done with in five minutes and now we all have very dark eyebrows which fill in the spaces on me but which are quite eye catching on the two blonde ones. When the daughter knocked on my door, her eyebrows entered first.
I don't want you to think I'm not thinking about the nurses and doctors, the homeless, those who are now jobless, sole traders in the arts, those who have lost family and will in the coming months lose more. In Australia people are getting so little help to those overseas, the purse strings of the government are tight. I am in an enviable position of being able to document and photograph what is going on in our tiny sector of the world and by the end of the day, we all need to laugh. Thinking of you all.
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