Author: TscTempest
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Day Thirty Four of Lockdown
Still no news, still locked down. Today my focus was my website. For some days, My webserver capacity had been exceeded. After some scurrying around, and destroying some subdomains in the process, I found the cause was old website backups. Deleting those, I was finally able to move forward. I’ve uploaded, finally, the images for…
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Day Thirty Three of Lockdown
Sunrise against the Rotunda; Some are afraid to use the volunteers pen to sign that they received their designated RAT, Hey! Don’t you have standard protective gear? Tea – Orchid Fragrance, it’s lovely; The volunteers arrive; Two RATs today, morning and arvo… my mask is always at the ready; To play with them it’s good…
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Day Thirty Two of Lockdown
We are now in uncharted territory. If yesterday was the last day in the month of, “Lockdown,” then what is this next period? They say we have another 10 days to go… 42 days in total… 42… the answer to Life, the Univer… 😂 🤣 😂 I must be going insane… A dog goes out…
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Day Thirty One of Lockdown
The news is not encouraging, Shanghai might not lift the lockdown, except for a few isolated locations, until April 11 – another 5 days! For some this is news to chill soul. For me? It’s SSDD… Today was an early start; Toast for breakfast; My website has run out of Cloud Storage – the images…
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Day 3Thirty of Lockdown No News is … no news
Home Testing, again. Being negative on the test, is good. Being negative about the situation, is not. Who is still able to compartmentalize this? Can you? My beloved bread maker, M. Mouli is deceased. recover the dough mix and bake bread in my Halogen oven – my yeast is getting tired. I’ll have to make a…
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Day Twenty Nine of Lockdown
April 5, 2022. … … … I thought we were supposed to be released today? I thought wrong: A child bumped its head and the call went out for iodine and bandages… I offered but it was already sorted; The bread is gone, Breakfast – eggs, chicken, and cheese; Yunnan Dian Hong Cha; The streets…
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Day Twenty Eight of Lockdown
It is 12+ hours later: An early start for PCR Testing; A friendly volunteer patrols the line; The line is longer now; Near the testing site the way is taped, keep the distance 2m apart; Ningbo Medical Volunteers, they are efficient and lovely; A batch of exposed Test vials; Forsythia! (It actually is… movie dejavu…)…
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Day Twenty Seven of Lockdown
We are two days out from Qing Ming Festival – Tomb Sweeping Time, but will we be released on time? The numbers don’t look encouraging, and there could be the potential for a lot of angry ancestors, with dirty tomb, and respects not paid… Today was a day of surprises: A food parcel from RT…
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Day Twenty Six of Lockdown
Panic! Distress! Anxiety… today, came the order that the external doors of the building will be wired shut at night, because some people were going out, under cover of darkness, in direct violation of the, “Stay At Home” management principles. For a fleeting moment our voluntary participation in this Epidemic Strategy, had become, a Curfew,…
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Day Twenty Five of Lockdown
Today, more parts of Shanghai go into a strict. 5 Day. lockdown. Much of Shanghai is now under emergency orders, and Quarantine. Key areas no longer have incoming deliveries, except for those authorised by the government. Resources are becoming limited and stretched. Here in Huacao, (we are part of the Minhang region) we have been…