The Waiting Man

For all the talk of shopping centres being deserted, it took a couple of minutes, waiting for a few people to get the hell out of my shot, to get this...

But it is pretty quiet out there & getting quieter. When I'm turfed out of bed 'round 6am by Bella & now by our 4-legged houseguest as well (she's learned quickly?!) & standing in the back yard, I can't hear the early morning buzz of traffic that I've grown so used to over the years - it took a little while before I really noticed its absence, to be honest... Sunset last night was a good one, but missing some of the deeper browns & reds that only air pollution can provide - that's purely a photographic complaint &, I suppose, nothing that can't be fixed in Photoshop later - when I get my PC back (It's been 4 months since I left it with a technologically advantaged friend... there are rumours I may get it back soon!)

Here at work, the sounds of construction work now seem much louder & reverberant without the usual car & foot traffic to compete with

I still have the cough left over from a cold I had sometime late last year - it takes me a while, sometimes, to shake that last symptom, but I must say, it's come in useful lately - about as many times as it's been slightly embarrassing & inconvenient - you should see the looks I get & how fast people move away when it happens!! But otherwise, we're both carrying on... life is as normal as we can make it