How's things there? I understand you're you're bunked in Tim. It has been a

COVID bunker unfortunately. We had my mother-in-law come and unfortunately she was

the first down and the rest of us followed.

You've gone down like 10 pins have you?

Oh yes, we have yes.

I have to say I avoided going out for the first few days just to be wise and

cautious in relation to other people at work I'd be interacting with.

Then of course I got symptoms and so then it's like I just added on that time onto the other time and now I'm recovering so it's actually been about 10 days inside now

which is nothing compared to the lockdowns of a few years ago is it but it still took a bit of getting used to again that's for sure.

How do you deal with being locked away for 10 days is something you're comfortable with or does it drive you a bit crazy?

Initially it's annoying then there's the thought of, oh hello this actually means I can be still and quiet and

and then you realize you know I've still got to do a heap of work and then the novelty of that

wears off pretty quickly I have to say.

I'm sitting near next to my shoes and I haven't worn any of them for 10 days and I was just looking

at them going oh look at you guys.

Just all waiting there, ready to go.

Unwanted.

Really, you talk to your shoes, do you?

Oh yes, yes, you don't talk to your shoes.

I've added an extra rack, actually. There's a bunch of shoes there and a rack and so they're sort of almost at eye height with me sitting here.

So the Cherry Doc Martins I'm looking at at the moment and've been talking to for the past few days.

It's starting to sound like dire of a madman here.

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