Well, the sudden 5 day Covid-19 lockdown in Melbourne on Thursday meant that my restaurant booking for today’s lunch was cancelled. Never mind just resorted to the tried and true box of chocolates and breakfast in bed. Don’t know what the wife did! No not really!

After she had eaten the lovingly prepared bacon and eggs with all of the trimmings she just rolled over and went back to sleep. Where is romance these days!

The last few days I have been busy building and painting unfortunately NOT hobby related.

Covid-19 has left our pantry bulging meaning it has been difficult to find anything. The pantry is small compared with what we are used to so I (well actually Maree) decided to add some shelves and make it more space efficient.

Some narrow shelves behind the door now stores plenty of cans without taking up any more shelf space.

More narrow shelves for all of Maree’s herbs and spices also added a lot more usable space.

Finally some utensil rails and a knife rack from IKEA has now made the bench space a usable preparation area rather than a junk collector.

In return for getting this done I was able to spend some time finishing off my work bench area.

In the next few weeks the bookcases will have glass doors and shelves added for holding the figures in those plastic containers.

No more spending a half an hour rummaging through four tool boxes to find the right tool for a few minute job, or those small hobby files to prepare some figures for undercoating.

Great to finally have everything at my fingertips.

Unfortunately because of these projects not much was achieved on the hobby front.

Just a few more Indian elephants from Irrgeular Miniatures put together and based ready for undercoating. The generals elephants were removed from their rectangular bases and put on round ones to make them easier to distinguish.

Hopefully more to report in the next few days.