We took stock and decided to treat our involuntary sojourn in Sydney as the longest housesit on record... with the most comfortable bed and fabulous owners. Obviously we need to focus periodically on sorting, making space, offloading unnecessary stuff from our apartment (not something regularly done on a housesit), but essentially we're going to focus on outings, fun and pretending that very Parisienne Potts Point is, in fact, Paris. In the usual course of event...

Masks. The new year brings more cases of the virus as the Northern Beaches cluster seems to be turning into the Sydney cluster. Masks are now mandatory on public transport and in supermarkets and all retailers. The last thing we want to do is take a bus or a train and then see it's date/time listed on the 'get tested and isolate for 14 days' list. This means we are more or less joined at the hip with our 'hip and happening' suburb of Potts Point. We also walk a...