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Huizingen park, one of the various parks in Brussels


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WEEKEND APRIL 11

Now the lockdown completed the first month and we are still very much alive although a bit bored ! We still meet 3 times a week, and as it was such a summer time, we always went to Myriam, because there it is quiet and we can chat in peace and disturb nobody.



In not even a week the trees have changed and are now in full bloom



Myriam is quite angry because on Radio and TV they say we should use the time to do things we have no time to do in normal times, like painting or repairing or cleaning, but they forgot to say where we should buy the missing products like here for the swimming pool which looks like a pond now, only frogs are missing. Of course people order on Internet and even shops who so far didn't sell via Internet created a brochure where you can choose and buy. Little shops can certainly close their doors after such a long time of earning nothing.

We still have nearly 30.000 people infected and 3.600 have died, mostly old people.  My neighbor a nurse is home since 2 weeks and has another week to stay home, because she had the Coronavirus. There is still no medication, what they say is to rest and take medicin against pulmonary aches, and the usual stuff for fiever.  What we can't understand is that the nurses and doctors are only starting to be tested since a week ! Before there was no tests or only a few available. Now they increase daily at least to know amongst the hospital staff who is infected and who not ! Fortunately there are now more people coming out healed then being hospitalized.

Strange things happen. The son of an acquaintances went together with his wife to his mother's incineration. Only the two were allowed to attend. The father was disabled and couldn't come. After the more then short ceremony they went to the father to tell him that his wife wouldn't come back. They had taken a picture of the coffin and showed it to him and told him that mum is gone forever. The father pushed a loud screem and fell from his wheelchair dead ! Heart attack. That's sad but on the other hand good for him as he was 89 and unable to live alone.

On Sunday was Mr. G.'s birthday. He was born on a Easter Sunday ! The birthday was a bit strange, because we were only the two of us and cat Rosie, our friends called us per Whatsapp and sent cards. It's the very first time that on a birthday we do not celebrate with our son and family but all alone ! But thanks to Internet  we didn't feel alone. Fortunately this disaster happens now and not 15 years ago, where nobody had Whatsapp and Skype was first released in 2003 but not available to everybody, at least we can now keep visual contact with our families !



Our birthday cat



and the menu, Sushi and a Tiramisu with fruits.



Rosie was not interested at all in our birthday celebrations and continued to sleep.

The weather started to change today after almost 3 weeks of sunshine which made it very hard for the people to stay inside, today some clouds appeared and apparently we will go back to winter again ! Since a few years the weather is a rollercoaster !