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My perspective is a little squared

My perspective is all over the place this week.  Not aided by the UK government’s position on ‘air corridors’.  For a while I was soothed by some excellent jazz.  If only it would last!  Wishing you a peaceful, happy weekend with Six Word Saturday and Becky’s Squares.

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    1. Sorry, Sue- I was sure I’d answered this! Sadly it’s gone from bad to worse and my son is now out of work. I’m holding on to the hope that he’ll still be coming here next week, but if he doesn’t I’ll be arranging a visit to the UK. Thanks for your kind thoughts. 🙂 🙂

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  3. Nothing’s simple anymore, especially family visits. So sorry your plans are all awry, Jo. I’m itching to go somewhere, but have to be patient. It’s not easy. 😳 Love the photo of the Jazz musician against the sunset. I would have loved to have been there to hear him. 😘

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  5. I thought of you Jo when I saw that Portugal wasn’t to be included on the UK list – bizarre decision. I know your family were due to visit soon too – presumably adds another layer of complication to it all 😦 Everything is so uncertain and fragile at present – you’ll have no doubt seen there has been a resurgence of the virus in Melbourne and lockdowns reinstated just as things were starting to open up again. We are doing well here in the west but our state government has been under huge pressure to open up our border to the eastern states recently. Events have overtaken these wrangles though and all the states are backtracking rapidly now and putting in strict border controls once again to Victoria. Our international arrivals are being capped as there were too many flights arriving putting pressure on our quarantine systems. Really one can’t envisage when we’ll be able to travel freely again. Maybe it will never return to what it was? Mlle is wondering whether to apply to leave Australia and go to Germany in a couple of months time or wait it out till the New Year. She feels Australia is going to become isolated from the rest of the world, which might in theory keep us safe, but be very limiting in the long run. Tough decisions ahead for her but at least she is starting to do some freelance PR work from home now, which is good. I’m resigned to staying put here for a long time – no way I’d wish to travel (assuming I can get the official papers to do so) when I’d have to quarantine in a hotel on my return at my own expense for 14 days with at least 2 mandatory Covid tests. No luxury hotel experience either – it’s quite basic and in a relatively small enclosed room. Glad the jazz helped a bit – stay safe and sending love your way xx 🙂

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    2. Sorry – trying to do 2 jobs at once! 🤣 will be jobless and I’m really worried for James. It’s Mick’s birthday this weekend and I’ve just booked this morning to go along to Sagres at the other end of the Algarve for a couple of nights and even that feels a little dangerous! Feel so sorry for the youngsters but living in hope 🤗💕

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      1. No problem at all Jo – I knew what you meant! Yes it’s so hard for younger people – they feel their worlds have been turned upside down. Mlle is fortunate to have this work, which will probably be for a couple of months or so – it’s for her old boss in London so she knows the clients and the work very well indeed. It will give her a taste of what freelance work will be like – we’ll set up a home office for her here. There’s not likely to be much in the way of work for her here so the opportunity of moving to Berlin is alluring but under very different circumstances than she would have anticipated a few months ago. Europe seems so much further away now! Mlle went to Sagres a couple of years ago and loved it! I know what you mean – we’ve booked to go down to Yallingup in the south west for a few nights the weekend after next and I’m wondering if it’s a good idea or not! But it will be so nice to get away for a break. Happy birthday to Mick and hope you have a wonderful stay in Sagres xx

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  11. That trumpetist’s profile in front of sunset is my favorite of the bunch Jo. Beautiful visuals and sounds. 🙂 I hope you get your wish of a family visit soon. I haven’t seen my family (and Belgian friends) in two years and I’ll easily have to add another year to that. 😦

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  12. Funny, I heard some jazz this morning and it immediately reminded me of Sunday brunch in San Francisco ~ a great memory from better times. Keep playing that jazz! We’ll get through this. 🙂

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    1. Not especially, Carol, but from what I’ve read the air filtration system does a good job, and now is as good a time as any because the airports are empty and the flights barely half full. It depends on how much you need to see family. Will our world ever be safe for travel again, and what exactly is ‘safe’? I have no thoughts of a world tour, but the fact that so many people do want to travel is a problem. 🙂 🙂

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  14. It is certainly all very confusing Jo, but jazz seems like a great way to relax…….its been a few years since I’ve listened to any……..I’ve now got Bix Beiderbecke playing on Spotify……….Thank You 🙂

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  15. Not sure what the air corridors are, but they must be annoying. So many things to be upset about these days, it’s tempting to check out and just not be involved. Good music is always a cure for whatever ails you. Just wrote about that as a matter of fact. I had a fun “walk in your own backyard” experience the other day. I’ll have to share when I get it written up.

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    1. It all relates to family and how easy it will be for them to come here this month, or not! It’s the subject that grieves me most. I can cope with anything else. 😦

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  17. I did wonder what you’d been drinking when I looked at the first photograph, but whatever it was it sent you skew-whiffed! Seriously though, I thought you were taking a few days off?

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    1. Banking aircraft aren’t the easiest places to get a horizontal shot, Mari, but I do actually like the angle. Love gliding in over the lagoon. And I did have a few days off, and won’t be posting a walk on Monday. That represents a huge saving in time for me, but the main reason is that I can’t load many more photos. I’m at capacity again. 🙂 🙂

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      1. Mea culpa! I didn’t even realise it was a shot from a ‘plane, stupid me, though a more careful study would have shown that it was just that. I have to straighten everything in my editing programme before uploading because the macular problem causes me to think things are straight when actually they are far from it. Everything to me is even but the result is very unbalanced. Most times I cannot see the middle (with my good eye, that is) and see only the outer part, the other eye is now quite blurry. It gives a different aspect to the world! However, they are keeping it stable at the moment so I’m grateful for that and I can still see to read, without a magnifier, which is most important.

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    2. We’re of a like mind on this government Anabel, especially this morning when I read that the NHS is to be denied the money they have asked for. What happened to all that overdone rhetoric we had early on from the government about the heroic workers, clap for the NHS and “anything they need or want they can have”. Oh yeah? lucky I was sceptical from the very start so I can smugly say, “I told you so”!

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