Day 20 & 21 Easter Monday and Tuesday

Monday was spent cooking. All day too. So, no blogging that day. Tuesday morning was spent delivering some meals and visiting my school, because I have been offered a job share from next week. This is part of the Job Keeper program and while it means teaching Pre-Intermediate class by Zoom, I can at least use the school’s technology and get paid some money.

My how times change? I remember not so long ago, a ‘cashie’ was highly prized. Get that folding stuff and no tax. Well try paying in cash now and they look at you like a leper.

The Reserve Bank of Australia says sellers are "at liberty to set the commercial terms upon which payment will take place" before the purchase "and refusal to accept payment in legal tender banknotes and coins is not unlawful".

  

So, a sign at a cafe counter, for example, does just that — it lays out the commercial terms before the customer orders. So no use abusing the cashier, who wears gloves, touches everything as if they are miracle objects that zap all bacteria and viruses, then scratch their head and start again. Old chefs know a clean hand is better than a dirty glove.

I ordered and collected the wine for this Saturday’s la Chaine des Rotisseurs wine dinner. Yes, that is regarded as essential travel. Well it’s a dry run for a future dinner, with 10 of us participating across three locations. The deal is, I have set the wines and each couple has to buy those four bottles. For convenience, I have chosen wines available from Dan Murphy’s, viz: House of Arras Sparkiling Reserve Cuvee, Stoniers Reserve Chardonnay, M. Chapoutier 2016 Crozes Hermitage and a Campbells Bobby Burns Shiraz. An eclectic mix eh? Then, each location orders aperitifs, entrée, main and dessert or cheese from one of the local struggling restaurants that offer take away/delivery. We then have a virtual dinner and discuss the wine parings and food just like a real dinner.

I was reading today where Victoria Police issued 162 fines over Easter for not wearing seatbelts. Is this possible I ponder? Not with our generation I’m sure, as it has become such a reflex reaction. I bet you it’s the same bastards that ignore social distancing. Rules are not for them.

Lady P has almost completed her first 1,000-piece jigsaw (photo when finished) and has two more in reserve. What do you do with a finished jigsaw?

Some Kiwi posted “Good news for the Wallabies! For the first time since 2002, you won’t lose a Blediscoe Cup Series.” And another, “An Irishman, Englishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar…. Those were the days!”