Life Under Lockdown... Unlocked

Strictly speaking, we're not completely locked down - the Australian Prime Minister can't decide what businesses should stay open & which should take an enforced break. So while this uncertainty rules, we remain open to service the scant, hardy souls who are wandering the streets of this ghost town & the more who are either phoning or e-mailing. Which, for me, is certainly better than the alternative - indefinite unemployment, with no recourse to the 'improved' benefit package, as L-SP earns too much... Sure, she earns enough, when you combine our salaries, to keep our aspirations & necessities going, but take half of it away & that's pretty much what will happen...

So much for our PM's election pitch of "If you have a go, you'll get a go..." or something. Trouble is, now that some of us - soon to be most of us? - can't have a go, we won't get a go... other than being told where to go by the Department of Social Services

Still, we're luckier than most - at least we're only staring down the barrel of a looming threat, instead of the axe having already fallen - to mix a couple of metaphors...