Blog Day 131 - Friday 13 November 2020

For the first time in four or five months I visited Southland today.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that there wasn't as many closed shops as what I thought there be would given all the doom and gloom that is being presented to us on a daily basis.

Sure there were more closed and empty shops than as usual but probably not a lot more.  There also appeared to be a lot of people around shopping and spending money.  This is a good time to be reopening retail with Christmas looming on the horizon.  Some businesses maybe surviving due to the surge of people shopping and buying things due to not being able to shop for a considerable time, I know that I bought some stuff to replace items that wore out during the lockdown.  There maybe still some closures to come, time will tell.

It was comforting to see nearly everybody wearing masks and most of the shops seems to have some sort of covid management plan in place and plenty of hand wash around.

It has been confirmed that the Shrine is opening on Monday 23 November although numbers of visitors will be limited and access won't be available to all areas.  It doesn't look like any volunteers will be required to attend until January next year.  

The Shrine volunteer Christmas lunch has been confirmed for Wednesday 9 December and will be some sort of picnic lunch on the grounds of the Shrine reserve.  Although it will be good to have the lunch and to catch up with everybody it is a little disappointing that it will be a "dry" affair.  No alcohol allowed on the Shrine reserve grounds and it is a long walk to Young and Jacksons.  Anyway "musn't grumble".

I signed up to my U3A courses for next year this morning.  I will be doing the Military and Maritime History sessions which run for the full year and a short course on law for amateurs.  At this stage these courses are still scheduled to be run as Zoom courses, initially anyway.

Update on figures and stuff tomorrow - but today - Aust/Vic - Good, World - Bad!

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  1. Richard14 November 2020 at 15:22

    As usual thank you for your contribution!!!!! Well what an interesting backhander if ever I saw one. I am glad I have contributed to this blog because when the time comes, you can look at my comment and say, well maybe he was right. No not maybe, wow he was right. I say borrow lots of money because no-one will ever be able to repay the debt, including Gov't. Quantitative easing is alive and well.

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