The gradual opening-up of borders between Australian states has hit a snag with an outbreak of Covid19 in the South Australian capital Adelaide. Hopes of being home for Christmas now seem to be up in the air.
November 17th
Another up and down day, weather clearing up a bit. Goatherd duties prevented me from getting to croquet again, but I was free for the quiz night (though it does seem odd arriving there in broad daylight). We settled in for a good evening of quizzing, though I always forget the Quizmaster is seated so close to our table until one of my comments ends up as an aside in her compering.
There were ten teams this week, and we didn't do so badly, scoring 74 points to finish in fourth place (again).
I don't think my goulash was good value for money, working on the amount of meat present to the price charged. Have you ever tried to eat gravy with a fork? That's what it felt like by the end of the meal.
I picked up a Jack Kerouac audiobook some time ago, and finally got round to putting it on a flashdrive. Now that I've plugged it into my car stereo, I can listen to it on the road. {snicker}
November 19th
100 days since there was a case of Coronavirus in Tasmania. The local paper's comment: "Looking back on our battle with COVID-19 it’s important to reflect just how far we’ve come. In light of the South Australian outbreak, it also reminds us just how quickly the situation can change."
Wasted a lot of time yesterday and today trying to work out why I can't get photos from my iPhone onto my laptop (again). I must have changed something but I can't work out what.
Some work done on maintenance of the goat enclosure (not by me). Everything seems to have worked out fine apart from the two hens who are on the wrong side of the wire and haven't yet worked out they could flutter over the fence if they really tried.
Weather a bit uncertain. Didn't see the sun till 6 p.m. I was worried that it might rain at the Bocce Club but we got through three games without any trouble. Then I arrived home and found I'd somehow left the cat locked out for two hours. Boy, did he give me a talking to !
20th November
Friday I had a phone call from Keith that he was heading out to my part of town and we met up for lunch at the Green Store (conveniently opposite the Salvo store). I had been studying ON THE ROAD recently, so while I sat there listening to Keith talk about cats I had a feeling of deja vu, as though I was Jack Kerouac sitting opposite Neal Cassady.
We trawled through the Salvation Army, our main hunting ground this week since the fire at the Hobart Tip Shop, then I gave Keith a lift back to his place before I went home.
On Saturday I had arranged to meet Keith early so we could make a detour to his storage unit to get the bookcase out of the back seat of my car. I've never seen one of these self-storage buildings first hand, so I was intrigued to see how neatly it was set up, with corridors leading off in all directions and a lift ready to move heavy items from one floor to another. (I was glad we didn't have to carry the bookcase up the stairs!)
We called in at some other places to drop stuff off, including a stop at JB Hi-Fi (more DVDs!) and the Mall newsagency who were holding for me this year's BEANO and DANDY annuals.
We had coffee and discussed various things. At one point Keith inclined his head and said "I defer to your superior wisdom." I looked at him and said "Now that is a first!"
It was hot in the car driving around today, and I felt like Jack Kerouac driving across the Mexican desert in today's chapter of ON THE ROAD. When I got home, I had an iced coffee and a sandwich and lay down for an hour. I might have made it two hours except I knew I had to get up and feed the goats.
21st November
The more things change the more they stay the same. In tonight's episode of VICTORIA, some private pictures of the royal family were leaked to the press, and a specialist had to be called in to treat the emotional problems of the Queen's son.
Except ... the pictures in question were pencil sketches made by Victoria and Albert, and the young prince was examined by a phrenologist !
22nd November
The last few days I've been battling with my iPhone to try and get it to talk to my laptop. I even bought a new lightning cable the other day, thinking that might be the problem, but didn't help. I was so annoyed by my constant failures that I actually had trouble getting to sleep last night, something that never happens these days. But I may have found a solution -- a friend recommended a gadget called the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive, which has a lightning cable on one end and a USB connection on the other. This may solve my picture problems.
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