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Written 1 April, 2020<\/strong>
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Twenty-four hours of hard. The power crashed last night at 11pm. K texted me in the cabin, \u00a0I ran up to the main house and switched on the generator, saying it was just for half an hour, hoping against hope that J&T close by down the track could sleep through the racket. Then I dropped to sleep in the main house on the sofa, and woke at 3 AM to find the power had crashed again. GG thinks the Aldi box fridge is the culprit for the power – too big a burden on these sunless days. In proportion to its size and usefulness, it’s inefficient. So I packed all the chicken and fish into the main freezer, and the frozen veggies and bait into the body of the fridge, and switched it off. Veggies are ok for a while unfrozen, and for all we know, fish mightn’t mind their bait smelly. Might indeed love it.<\/p>\n

RM’s huge barge arrives unexpectedly at 9 AM with our ton of firewood in big bulker bags that crowd the jetty. He’s to take away old junk – amazing how junk accumulates around these properties – old \u00a0rusting tools, rusting trolleys, gadgets, whippersnappers, 44 gallon drums, water tanks too full of holes to be good for burning off, old pipes,…he’ll pick it all up when he’s back in a day or two. I yelp. “So soon!” For \u00a0I’ve got to get it down the cliff onto the jetty in one day or two. Meanwhile, I’m to pack some bags of wood into the flying fox, and wheelbarrow the other bags to the woodshed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we have to go to the chemist at Brooklyn again, this time for meds for me. I have to admit to \u00a0PTSD from my childhood ; my sumptuous, violent mother again. \u00a0Dad left with \u00a0my brothers wen I was 13, “to prevent a murder,” he said.he promised to come back. He didn’t. I think he forgot that promise. Now, I’m almost glad it happened that way, for \u00a0I know that sometimes, children can be good for mothers like K is for me- they ground us. I wish I’d known that at the time. I think in some way, dimly, I did. What doesn’t break us, makes us strong. Those years made me what i am today.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile- I thought this such a brilliant idea- for winter, \u00a0why don’t we find a warm airbnb house that’s got air con and on the grid and move there for June- July, the freezing months? \u00a0K loves this task of looking at airbnbs, so she set to work, and within 30 minutes had found a house at Woy Woy, so nearby, we’ve food shopped there. It was reduced unbelievably from $15,000 \u00a0to only $1600 for the winter!
\n“Grab it”, I said.
\nShe’d barely finished hallooing in joy when I’d paid the deposit.
\nWe were accepted! Yay! then suddenly refused. Just then a friend rang all agog with news and this \u00a0explained it. The government has passed new laws in NSW making it illegal to leave your home unless to a second home, and people must not move to country towns. Except that this would’ve just been going up the road, since we were already in a country town.<\/p>\n

On the way to the chemist we saw B at DB’s: he and Brutus promise again to come soon and cut our fallen trees, so I can burn off before summer.<\/p>\n

At the almost empty marina shop, besides gas and petrol, we buy expensive chicken, expensive sweet potatoes, expensive zucchini again, expensive lettuce again. I suppose this is the price of staying safe. I see another customer gawkily opening the fridge doors with his elbow, and that prompts me to do the same, elbowing the sliding door. But will i ever remember if the person in front of me isn’t doing it? . At the kind-hearted chemist, I worry about his fingers on my cardboard packet of pills- then \u00a0remember on Norman Swann’s “Corona Cast” this morning, \u00a0he spoke of research that shows the virus lasts on cardboard only 4 hours, not 4 days as we were first told. Thank goodness for good research.So i won’t handle them till night time, 7 hours away. I’m so glad we’re not in the city, doing these calculations all the time. “Oh gosh- did I stand too close to her?” ” Did I touch the seat?” “Did I \u00a0hold the handles where he touched?”<\/p>\n

We hear that in Peru, \u00a0women and men aren’t allowed out at the same time in the day.<\/p>\n

“Why?” asked K. “In case they kiss?”<\/p>\n

I shrug. Maybe men tend to crowd women-if we’re pretty, that’s a problem, and \u00a0if \u00a0we’re not pretty, we’re in as much danger because we’re invisible.They could run over us and not notice, like a road runner cartoon.<\/p>\n

I begin to load wood, then on an afternoon tea break, i go upstairs and fall asleep. I wake to find GG putting dinner on the BBQ, and run to J’s to ask for a sprig of rosemary for a change from our usual mint, oregano, \u00a0thyme. J says she would love some mint- I’ll \u00a0plant some in a little pot for her- one of those little pots left over from my many plant failures. Our mint is becoming an aromatic carpet outside the veggie garden next to the woodshed, with no persuasion from me. The wild animals leave it alone.Perhaps wallabies and possums don’t like mint. How could they not? I’d have it even on ice-cream.<\/p>\n

F and S come out to their balcony to talk – I’m delighted, and don’t say that it’s an illegal meeting of 3! – and I apologise for our generator racket last night.<\/p>\n

Then I find out that their power had crashed at midnight too- so they didn’t hear our generator over the racket of theirs!<\/p>\n

I still haven’t heard from C and he’s still not answering his phone or my text. I fear he’s in hospital. He got covid early, because he works in film and a Overseas film star apparently \u00a0had infected a director he works with. My dear, dear friend. I always see him in my mind’s eye when we worked together \u00a0in SBS as subtitlers. He’d come to translate Greek, his home language, but stayed on in the job of editing translated subtitles from any of 113 anguages into more usual English, and making sure the subtitles were only 22 characters every four seconds. Someone- we never know whom – considered that any more than that, they were too fast to read. We endured , giggling together, \u00a0the silly commands from uncomprehending \u00a0bosses out of their depth, for it was the early days of SBS, and pubic servants were dragooned from the most unlikely departments to work in the exciting new television channel- public servants from Fisheries, from Main Roads, from Waterways. \u00a0These unlikely bosses would tell us the we mustn’t waste time viewing the film we were translating; once, in trying to follow this command, and working with a very poor translation, I thought I was editing the subtitles of a fishing documentary and \u00a0substituted all sort of words suitable to fishing, only to be told, when at last I was allowed to talk to the translator, (talking to translators was also decreed to be a waste of time) that what I’d been working on was a \u00a0feature about a trombonist.<\/p>\n

I long to hear C’s clever voice, full of disbelief and amusement at the absurdity of the world, again. He was the only person I wanted to talk to when Trump first came to power. I thought his coming to power was the most astonishing thing in the world. \u00a0Till now. I hope he’s alright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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