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#72 Man Chiu Leung My weekly routine

Man Chiu Leung

My weekly routine is similar, day by day. Get up around 7.30 a.m. Use the cafetiere to make coffee. I grind my own coffee beans. Then breakfast – a mixture of English and Chinese. Then tend my garden. Lunch around noon. After 1pm I go out for a walk. Around 4pm I start to prepare dinner. Cook around 5pm. Eat around 6pm. I don’t find the routine boring.

The only mishap is the heated discussions with my wife from time to time. During our 49 years together, we have never spent all day together. Now we have to be together every day. Conflict is bound to occur. The blessing is, we tend to forget the differences and get on with it. I am afraid we don’t live in a perfect world and we have to accept unpleasant situations.

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On 16 March 2020, one week before official government guidance, and just as Covid 19 was turning into a global epidemic, the Performance Ensemble went into lockdown. Our weekly company workshops came to an abrupt halt, and we disappeared behind our individual front doors. The easy ways of communicating, face to face, were no more. But we still needed to connect. Nine of the company started to keep diaries of their experiences, as a way of overcoming the isolation. Here they are: 31 days of lockdown, recorded during the months of March and April, beginning on 16 March and ending on 1 May, just as restrictions started to be eased. Edited by Barney Bardsley

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#72 Man Chiu Leung My weekly routine

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