The "I am in self-isolation" thread

[cqtiger]

Glad I live on 5 acres

 

[Pushka]

Glad I live on 5 acres

And glad our place is pretty much self isolating - we face the beach. MrP has cancelled travel now for work and it will be a case of reading on the balcony overlooking the sea and long walks across the foreshore. I need to check up on Netflix, there seems to be a good series on Cricket on Amazon Prime. There's not much company bookwork to be done coz it's pretty much gone quiet after the next invoice round. And MrP has decided he will develop another website. He said he might write another book to which I asked where was he going to move to in order to do that? Authors and polite company do not mix.

 

[mrsterryn]

I returned from USA on Saturday and had already decided to be at home isolated
Just husband and I at home
He stocked up prior to my arrival .
One issue is milk and bread I will run out of .
We are doing major house chores at the moment which were planned for the whole year
Just pondering whether we can go to drive through places as the 1.5 metre would exist

 

[33kft]

Just pondering whether we can go to drive through places as the 1.5 metre would exist

What sort of drive through places would have the essentials available? The only ones I can think of are the woolworths/coles pick up spaces and I think they have majorly dropped the ball by shutting these down. Absolutely no need to do so imho. Just have the driver input their number plate and leave the order in a bay for pickup. Point some cameras at it incase someone drives off with another person's order like a petrol station drive off. It can't be dodgier than dropping off at someone's front yard surely? That said, isolated people can't drive around even if they don't intend to get out of the vehicle in a public place, unless they're going for medical treatment per the isolation guidelines. So perhaps that is why?

 

[RooFlyer]

Yes I know that Rooflyer but Matt said if he can’t leave the house !

Oops sorry, I missed the connection

 

[RooFlyer]

OK, on arrival back home:

* Unpacked groceries provided by friends and left in my car when I picked it up. Pantry looks a bit full

* Inspected garden - in great shape - Lots and lots of tomatoes on the vines, plus capsicums coming on and even some sweet corn left.

* Called local pharmacist - I can scan and e-mail in scrips, and they will deliver (great living in a small community)

* Called local IGA - I can phone in an order, and they will deliver

* Talked to neighbor on phone - got told the local 'secret' - the petrol station has good supplies of loo paper

* About to do some washing (maybe twice, in hot water??) and then, sadly, life will get pretty well back to normal. Back to my thesis.

Tonight, I'm going to have a big steak with tomato and eggs and the better part of a 2008 Rockford Basket Press. Its nice to be home!

I need to check up on Netflix, there seems to be a good series on Cricket on Amazon Prime.

I visited Versailles last week and by co-incidence I discovered the 'Versailles' series on US Netflix (did you get the US thing going?). Haven't checked if its local. I'm not sure of its historical accuracy, but its entertaining. (Its about the Court of Louis XIV, not the palace, although it was seen being built in the background.)

 

[SydneySwan]

We are doing major house chores at the moment which were planned for the whole year

This is one of my major fears if I need to self-isolate. Mrs SS will expect all outstanding jobs around the house to be completed plus a Marie Kondo style decluttering.

 

[QF_Flyer]

I’ll be returning in a couple of days and have to self-isolate, along with the Mrs. I can work from home, and did so a week or so ago for the few days I was working between two trips to/from Asia.

A big plus is two hours extra time in bed each morning (no commute or business attire!), and saving on transport costs. I work from home two days a week usually, but two weeks of it will probably drive me mad. Shouldn’t negatively affect what I can get done work wise though.

As for entertaining myself, I guess I’ll be smashing the life out of Netflix, and I’ll probably read every thread on AFF/Flyertalk. Maybe book some flights, I can research prices and destinations with all my new spare time! Although, as SydneySwan also says, there’s a lot of stuff around the house/garden I’ll have no excuse to put off, so there’s that.

 

[Pushka]

OK, on arrival back home:

* Unpacked groceries provided by friends and left in my car when I picked it up. Pantry looks a bit full

* Inspected garden - in great shape - Lots and lots of tomatoes on the vines, plus capsicums coming on and even some sweet corn left.

* Called local pharmacist - I can scan and e-mail in scrips, and they will deliver (great living in a small community)

* Called local IGA - I can phone in an order, and they will deliver

* Talked to neighbor on phone - got told the local 'secret' - the petrol station has good supplies of loo paper

* About to do some washing (maybe twice, in hot water??) and then, sadly, life will get pretty well back to normal. Back to my thesis.

Tonight, I'm going to have a big steak with tomato and eggs and the better part of a 2008 Rockford Basket Press. Its nice to be home!



I visited Versailles last week and by co-incidence I discovered the 'Versailles' series on US Netflix (did you get the US thing going?). Haven't checked if its local. I'm not sure of its historical accuracy, but its entertaining. (Its about the Court of Louis XIV, not the palace, although it was seen being built in the background.)

Nah. And with sucky exchange rate it was going to be $26 a month! I cancelled free trial but they charged me anyway. A month later and four weeks after I'd cancelled. I'm disputing with PayPal Currently.

Actually one activity I'm doing is cancelling all the holiday bookings!

In SA today it's gone to community spread. Prior to that it was pretty much brought in from overseas travel.

 

[RooFlyer]

I’ll be returning in a couple of days and have to self-isolate, along with the Mrs. I can work from home, and did so a week or so ago for the few days I was working between two trips to/from Asia.

A big plus is two hours extra time in bed each morning (no commute or business attire!), and saving on transport costs. I work from home two days a week usually, but two weeks of it will probably drive me mad. Shouldn’t negatively affect what I can get done work wise though.

As for entertaining myself, I guess I’ll be smashing the life out of Netflix, and I’ll probably read every thread on AFF/Flyertalk. Maybe book some flights, I can research prices and destinations with all my new spare time! Although, as SydneySwan also says, there’s a lot of stuff around the house/garden I’ll have no excuse to put off, so there’s that.

That's absolutely the way to look at things! I too will be haunting NetFlix, but I'm going to be finishing my Trip Report on AFF and then tuning out mostly. Far too much negativity and some B/S.

 

[Anna]

If you've never checked out SBS On Demand, give it a go. There's a huge range of stuff, all free.

SBS showed Versailles so you might even find that is still available - a lot of shows remain available for 12 months (not all, I missed most of Vikings' recent season ).

 

[dajop]

Living in Singapore we use a VPN service instead of subscribing to pay-TV. We use to mainly access ABC iview and SBS On Demand, which I agree has a huge range. Also we access British TV as well including BBC and Channel 4 - haven’t explored ITV. Between those 4 channels huge range of interesting content. We can also access foreign Netflix catalogs this way too ...

 

[SydneySwan]

I wonder if it would be informative to have a new icon, perhaps like the online now one, to indicate who is currently in self-isolation.

 

[mrsterryn]

On day four of cleaning out the house
There will be loads of items for Vinnie's I have to say
Just perturbed about running out of milk as we dont have any concession cards we aren't able to access home delivery via Woolies or Coles (once it is operational)

 

[SydneySwan]

Just perturbed about running out of milk as we dont have any concession cards we aren't able to access home delivery via Woolies or comes (once it is operational)

Yes I am beginning to think that possession of a seniors card is going to become a valuable commodity. Who'd have thought?

 

[mrsterryn]

Yes I am beginning to think that possession of a seniors card is going to become a valuable commodity. Who'd have thought?

We have the seniors state card. Hoping that it may be of value

 

[drron]

We have the seniors state card. Hoping that it may be of value

The Seniors State cards are a State Government card so should be acceptable.
However I don't want to share my shopping time with a whole lot of grumpy old seniors.

 

[SydneySwan]

However I don't want to share my shopping time with a whole lot of grumpy old seniors.

Indeed - get out of my way!

 

[get me outta here]

My friend who is mid cancer treatment said she loathed shopping yesterday morning with a mob of coughing standing too close touching saying you go ahead, oldies. Sorry OT.

 

[RooFlyer]

Rather than face the resumption of study, I've started sorting digital photos. Two weeks isolation is not going to be enough ...