Letters to my Grandchild

Hello my noo-noo, W hat a relief that you were in your new home before the lock down!   By the way, this is your 4th home!   When you were born in 2008 you were taken home to No 7 Shiraz in Peach place, Glen Hills where Mark and Tammy lived before you were born.  It is a nice place but the parking was very difficult.  When the owner told them that he was coming back from Australia in January, we helped your folks look for a new place so that you could move before Christmas. We found a lovely place in Anthony Mews, 100 Anthony Road in Riverside and you moved there in December 2008.  The landlord wasn't always the greatest but you enjoyed many happy years there.   Your Mom had a thriving cake business and once you started school spent many hours baking specialty cakes for weddings and anniversaries. In February 2018 you moved to a bigger house at Mt Edgecombe Golf Estate on Golf Course 1.   Did you know that it was here in Golf Course...

Hi Em, This is what has happened to our world since the pandemic was announced on 11 March 2020 -Petrol price  R13.76 - Rate of exchange R20.55 to €1 -Schools cancelled -Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers 2 m apart from each other. -Limited number of people allowed inside stores, therefore, queues outside the store doors. -Non-essential stores and businesses are closed. -Parks, trails, entire cities locked up. -Entire sports seasons cancelled. -Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled. -Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled. -No funerals -No masses, churches are closed. -No gatherings of 50 or more -Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home. -Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers. -Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill. -Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer. -Shelves are bare...