Cold

Herod's Gate plaza ... cold

 The weather is cold and damp. But there were sunny moments ... and almond blossoms are blooming so the cold spell should be over soon. I just wish we had more rain. It's been a very dry year. We need more water otherwise water prices will rise in summer and drought taxes will be reenacted. Tonight and tomorrow there'll be drizzle.

There are fewer people in the streets due to the cold. Only school children going to and from school fill the streets with noise and some life. Shops open late and close early. Only the food shops are busy selling hot meals and drinks.

But the cold hasn't stopped the protests continuing against the govt's plan to reform the judiciary. And there was a fire near or in a hospital right in downtown. Warnings to avoid the surrounding streets flooded social media. Roads had been blocked.

I've been forgetting to take my medicine the past 3 days. I've been bogged down by so much work I hardly have time even to eat. And I'm down to a veggie diet with occasional egg or chicken and rarely fish. I found fish fingers sold in some shops so I bought a pack to try. Not a great meal but it gives me some protein from an otherwise veggie diet. Everything is so expensive nowadays. The sisters just told me a carton of eggs is now US$10.  Thank goodness it'll be Lent soon ... fasting and abstinence will reduce our food expenditure.