Month: March 2020
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Day Sixteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Solitude
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was writing a Facebook post when I thought of the term Pandemic Solitude and I love it so much that I wanted to use it as a title for today’s blog post. For most people during the pandemic the order is, stay with the people you live with but avoid…
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Day Fifteen of ORCA in Switzerland – Pandemic Fatigue
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now that we’re in week 5 of self-isolation and Day fifteen of ORCA I am getting pandemic fatigue. As it’s Monday I could make the effort of going to the shops to get fresh food rather than deplete the reserves I have but my motivation is not there. It has come…
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Day Thirteen of Orca in Switzerland – Reaching Goals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Life during a Pandemic is quite the existential challenge so reaching goals is good. Today I walked the last two kilometres to reach the March challenge goal of walking 298.8Km. In ordinary times this would be a great achievement but during a pandemic, it’s even more interesting. Although it might seem…
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Day Twelve of Orca in Switzerland – Three Kilometres to go
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have just three kilometres to go before I reach the Activity goal of walking 298.8 kilometres in a month. Reaching the goal in and of itself is relatively easy. What makes it a challenge is doing it during a pandemic when you need to keep a safe distance from everyone.…
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Day ten of Orca in Switzerland – The New Normal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today I’m getting to grips with the new normal. The new normal is queuing like people did before self-checkout and other technology. We also need to queue to get into shops and you either need to take a trolley or a shopping bag if you want to buy things. No more…
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Day Nine of Orca in Switzerland – Not Our first Epidemic, but the most severe.
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is not our first epidemic. In the 21st century I saw the actions to spread Foot and Mouth from spreading in South West England. Dartmoor was closed and precautions were taken to protect animals. We also lived through the BSE crisis, i.e. Mad cow disease. From 2002 we had the…
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Day Eight of Orca in Switzerland – Herded like Cattle
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I was herded like cattle at the shops and walked along the edge of a field I had never walked along before. At the shops they put tape up, like a maze to force people to walk a certain circuitous route. The circuitous route would be fascinating if the shops…
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Day Seven of Orca in Switzerland – Quietness
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today’s topic is quietness. As the weather was bad, and as there is no reason to leave the home unless you have to work, or to go for a walk everywhere was quiet. The roads were quiet, with few cars, the paths between fields were quiet. Even the motorway was…