Wednesday, April 23

I had thought that time would start to hang heavy as we lived under enforced isolation but, in reality, time flies. I am always up by 7 o’clock and never in bed before 10.30, yet I never feel at a loose end, scratching for things to do.  I don’t suppose I am particularly productive, but the important thing I’m not bored.


My Friday writing group, of course, isn’t meeting but we’ve been having virtual meetings on Zoom.  Last week’s was a bit of a washout so we repeated it yesterday with more success.  We had a guest speaker, a local successful writer who read one of her short articles and talked about opportunities to get published, then we each had a chance to read our own assignment.  I’m not sure people listen to what everyone else has written but the comments are positive and we can pretend they are sincere. We don’t meet again until May 1^st and my piece is already written so I’ll need to find something else to do in the meantime.


I’d like to mow but it’s too wet and the mower needs a service.  The fellow who generally fixes it on-site it is not answering his phone and all the other repairers have to come and take it away and  it always takes more than a week to get it back.  They’re also much more expensive and that’s always a factor.


We had another Coles delivery yesterday and they didn’t arrive until 9.15 at night.  Clearly, it’s a growing business and they have to accommodate.  When the delivery arrived, we were watching a show called Cobra, about a disaster which struck Britain.  It was a bit far-fetched but riveting.  I’ve been receiving ads over the past few weeks for a streaming service called Acorn TV, which specialises in British shows.  We have Netflix but it’s so heavily biased to US shows we hardly watch it.  Acorn sounds much more like our kind of things. It’s only $6.99 a month so we’ll probably give it a go.

We’ve always resisted watching TV during daylight hours but we read instead and I wonder why reading is so much more acceptable.  Maybe, in these unusual times, it will be OK to forego some reading time and improve our minds by watching some quality TV.  I notice Acorn offer Father Ted but we'll probably give that a miss.