This afternoon our Prime Minister let us know the whole country is to go into lockdown from 11:59pm Wednesday 25 March 2020.

We’re trying to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus so as not to overwhelm our medical services, in the hope we will save as many lives as we can.

We’ve been anticipating that once there were any cases of the illness that couldn’t be traced to travel, all bets would be off. And there they were, two cases of coronavirus that couldn’t be explained by travel, so likely to have been transmitted through community.

The PM mentioned that it our initial lockdown would be for four weeks, maybe longer.

While we are all used to working from home in our team, the thought of squinting at my laptop screen for that long wasn’t appealing. So I pulled the Mini up to the front of the building and piled my entire desktop setup in and brought it home; stands, mouse, keyboard - the lot!

I am a very privileged individual who can manage their work life like this.

My first day in lock-down tomorrow and my grand daughters will be spending the day here while their mother does her last day before taking her teaching online.

We’ll all continue to do the best we can, for working from home, and for slowing the progress of this virus.

By the way, we have the best PM. Just sayin’