What's Cooking

Phew! It does appear that Shauna's residence may escape the pandemic, for now at least. Here's hoping anyway. So far, the only positive test result has been that initial worker. She was very careful at work and also self-isolated when she only suspected that she had it (because her roommate tested positive). Also the most suspected resident has had a negative test, and I think they're caught up with testing for now.

I keep knocking on wood, but that leads to a headache since the easiest wood within reach is my noggin. I live in hope, but we shall see.

To lift your spirits, I present the All Abilities Choir in Australia's Got Talent. It is an odd crop, but it works well enough. Warning: this video may induce wet eyes.

Daily Selfie: do you notice how Sue always smiles but that I often ham it up?

Isolation Humour



COVID Assistance

Doing their best: we live in an imperfect country in an imperfect world, but our governments are trying to help people as quickly and efficiently as possible. Here is one person's experience with, CERB, the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.

This compares to the huge (and unsafe) benefit lines that I saw taking place in Florida this morning. No, I 'm not trying to rub it in but showing how comparatively well Canada is doing. It could be worse.

Isolation Learning: Life Skills

The kids' step (not really but almost) mother is doing a marvellous job. For Sue's birthday, she had Danica bake a cake: just Danica with only verbal instructions. This week, Danica made pasta from scratch.



And Jonathan did homemade pizza and made the crust from scratch.

This is great and probably not something that neither their mother nor Sue and I could be bothered to do. I have made homemade pizza once, but I cheated and used a pre-made crust.