by 2summers | Jul 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
Hello. After blogging mostly every day for the first 100 days of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, I took a full week off. This is weird. It feels like I’ve been gone for ages. In fact I haven’t been gone at all — I’ve been right here, in...
by 2summers | Jul 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
It’s Day 100 of the South African lockdown. I’m still here, at home, on my couch. Here I am on Day 100, wearing the nearly completed scarf I’ve been knitting for the past six months. (If you look carefully, you’ll see a knitting needle sticking...
by 2summers | Jul 3, 2020 | Boxing, COVID-19, Hillbrow/Yeoville, Johannesburg
I’ve been working out with George Khosi at the Hillbrow Boxing Club for many years. Up until the lockdown started I’d been going to Hillbrow about three times a week, every week, since 2012. George Khosi, coach of the Hillbrow Boxing Club. I shot this...
by 2summers | Jul 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
It’s Day 98 of the South African lockdown, which I literally cannot believe. Earlier today I suddenly thought back to my Day 9 post, when I said it felt like Day 900 and questioned my decision to blog every day of lockdown because I suspected it might last...
by 2summers | Jul 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
I’ve been thinking all day about what to name this post, or what kind of theme or subject to give it, or whatever. But today is Day 97 of the lockdown, which means it’s been 100 days since I started this Lockdown Journal. (I started the journal three days...