Through a global pandemic, would it be better to self-isolate in the city or country? I have chosen to stay in the city at a house we share/rent with our daughter and her family. Australia is in lockdown and WA has closed its internal borders. The country is quiet enough as it is. As I write, I worry how long this will all last.
City life
Through this period of self-isolation, I feel as though I am on some type of perfect holiday; going to the beach, walking, cycling, reading, blogging, watching Netflix, SBS, and ABC On Demand. I finished Delia Owen’s book, Where the Crawdad’s Sing, a brilliant novel and well worth reading. Follow the Walking, listening, and reading across the acres post above for a full list of recently read books.
Farm life through covid19
Meanwhile, the farmer went home to feed sheep and truck them to another farm, 50 km away for the last of the summer’s feed. The dry 2019 winter meant that there wasn’t a great deal of crop stubble, and even less sheep feed available.
Although we can’t do much at all under this lockdown regime, anything that is of value in the scheme of things is still possible (buy and prepare food, care for others, exercise). I think over time that it will become quite evident that life will not return to the way we lived it previously.