Lockdown Journal: Day 36 (Outside in Melville)

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It’s Day 36 of the South African lockdown – the first day of lockdown Level 4. It’s May Day and we went OUTSIDE.

People walking outside in Melville
Lockdown photo 36: OUTSIDE.

As of today, South Africans are allowed to go outside for exercise between 6 and 9 a.m. daily. Initially I wasn’t super excited about this rule, as you may have read yesterday. It’s unnecessarily restrictive, and the timing is poorly thought out as the sun rises late in South Africa at this time of year.

From the Melville Cat: Happy Birthday to Me

From the Melville Cat:

Good day. I must confess the title of this post is rather misleading.

Today may very well be my birthday. Then again it may not. (Felines don’t bother remembering birth dates.) But the dear Ms. M, my original human caretaker, told Heather she believes I was born in or around December 2007.

From the Melville Cat: The Midget Fluff Ball Menace Turns One

From the Melville Cat:

Forgive me friends, as it has been many months since my last update. I’ve been busy. For a while I was spending most of my time outdoors in an effort to escape the insufferable badgering of the Trixie, the Midget Fluff Ball Menace. She has grown larger and her harassment progressively more tiresome.

2019 Update From the Melville Cat

From the the Melville Cat:

Good day, dear readers. I would like to update you on recent developments.

Melville cat on the table
Updates from me, the Melville Cat.

Trixie, the Midget Fluff Ball Menace

  1. The Midget Fluff Ball Menace continues to play an active role in my day to day life, for better or worse. She is no longer a kitten but rather a half-grown cat. The Midget – I suppose I won’t be able to call her that much longer – is still rambunctious, forever scampering and tumbling about.
The Midget in her favorite tree.
Trixie leaping
She is forever leaping from place to place.
I suppose she is rather handsome when she chooses to comport herself with dignity.

Trixie is still a menace, but fortunately she has become a bit more respectful of my boundaries in recent months. I hope this trend will continue.