30-March - Monday - Half-way point is looming

Day 7 of isolation. The Swiss-Aussie travelling lad started working from home, a welcomed distraction from sitting on the couch, surfing the internet, reading news or looking out the window. I showered, shaved and put on my business shirt, deciding shorts and bare feet is a perfectly appropriate work at home business attire, sitting at the dining table tapping away at my laptop and joining in a deluge of online meetings. I was given an update, I was briefed, I was quizzed, I was asked, I was challenged, I was given instructions. I needed to work and loved it. For the Italo-Aussie instead realisation sunk in of what another 7 days of this means, sitting around, partner’s laptop going into overdrive and him? It was a bleak day. We needed each other more than ever, giving each other support, encouragement and positiveness! Thank goodness for online aerobic workouts! That re-set the mood… Only another 7 days now…

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