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dotti34 · 08-04-2020, 12:38

Something that I am really going to miss this year is this. There are a group of us (7) who celebrate our birthdays enjoying lunch at one of the hotels or restaurants in the area. The first of the birthdays is in April and the last for the year is in July. Now that all the places are closed we have had to rethink what to do.

The first suggestion was that we have a picnic in a park...but although the number allowed to congregate in public in South Australia is 10 we would still have to have the social distancing between each of us which wouldn't make for a very congenial outing. We would be sort of stretched across the park - and as a couple are slightly hard of hearing we would have to shout to each other.

The next suggestion was that we all stand in our front gardens and at a specified time we sing 'Happy Birthday To You'. As there is a fair distance between each of our houses if anyone saw an old girl standing in her garden and singing HBTY apparently to no-one in particular then I think the men in the white coats would be on their way to collect. I think maybe self-isolation is affecting whoever suggested this.

So it looks like we will definitely be missing out on the lunches this year. Hopefully we will make up for it next year.

08-04-2020, 12:38	#47
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: Isolation calendar. Something that I am really going to miss this year is this. There are a group of us (7) who celebrate our birthdays enjoying lunch at one of the hotels or restaurants in the area. The first of the birthdays is in April and the last for the year is in July. Now that all the places are closed we have had to rethink what to do. The first suggestion was that we have a picnic in a park...but although the number allowed to congregate in public in South Australia is 10 we would still have to have the social distancing between each of us which wouldn't make for a very congenial outing. We would be sort of stretched across the park - and as a couple are slightly hard of hearing we would have to shout to each other. The next suggestion was that we all stand in our front gardens and at a specified time we sing 'Happy Birthday To You'. As there is a fair distance between each of our houses if anyone saw an old girl standing in her garden and singing HBTY apparently to no-one in particular then I think the men in the white coats would be on their way to collect. I think maybe self-isolation is affecting whoever suggested this. So it looks like we will definitely be missing out on the lunches this year. Hopefully we will make up for it next year.