BRIGHTSIDE
Lockdown’s silver linings Right now, it’s heads down, teeth gritted and tunnel vision to the end. But Carolyn Swindell has been granted a brief license to bob her head up, stare off out into the future and report back about what we might miss about lockdown 2021.
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Home hair-dyeing
et me preface these remarks by The weather is definitely helping to cast reassuring you that I like a good moan things in a better light. Yes, there’s hay-fever, my inner poet as much as the next middle-aged but there’s also enough colour bursting appears to be white woman (possibly more). Soon the in the gardens to inspire our inner poets. days we’ve endured in lockdown will tick I’ve tried, and my inner poet appears to more inclined to over into triple digits and it’s important be more inclined to dirty limericks than dirty limericks we don’t try to just pretend everything’s Shakespearean sonnets, but my Instagram been a bed of roses this year. Or last year. is over-run with locked-down Sydneysiders Right now, for instance, I’m barricaded in my sharing the beauty of new blossoms and bees home-office, pretending to work but really just in action. Handy tip: in Japan, cherry blossom hiding while I hear my husband battling our eightseason is enjoyed in a particularly civilised custom year-old over today’s home learning (that bit’s just between called Hanami which basically involves spreading blue you and me, ok?). tarps out under the blooming trees and drinking copious Yes, it will be good when all this Covid-nonsense has amounts of alcohol as you gaze at the beauty. Personally been said and done. I love broadening my children’s understanding of other But, look, at risk of being a Lower North Shore Pollycultures, so we’ve taken enthusiastically to Hanami in our Anna and further annoying people whose tempers are front-yard. already fraying, I’m putting my hand up to say that We used to sit in the backyard to avoid the passing there are parts of lockdown that I might mourn when parade. After all, we saw more than enough people each they’re gone. day to need to seek out small talk. But that was BEFORE. 14 TVO
