March & April 2020
I was looking through my phone photo detritus from the time of the original closures (which were not as strict as the July to October 2021 ones, during which I mostly stuck to photographing sunsets rather than sign-of-the-times images).
Early on, this kind of sign was unusual enough that I photographed it especially:
![Adore Pharmacy Rozelle entry warning, March 2020](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51531617874_5543d79855_c.jpg)
I never figured out if the placement of a hand hygiene sign next to a cheap will preparation sign was deliberate, and if so, intended to be funny, shocking, or just attention-getting:
![Hand sanitising warning, April 2020](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51531147438_686cb52003_c.jpg)
Speaking of bleak, we played one game of Pandemic but it got awfully real with outbreaks in East Asia and Russia:
![Playing Pandemic in lockdown](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51530906536_d92c141713_c.jpg)
![Playing Pandemic in lockdown](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51531150503_833fc4b257_c.jpg)
Our local Flight Centre was lookng forward to welcoming us back for several months. It closed permanently nearly a year ago now:
![Flight Centre Rozelle during lockdown: it never re-opened](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51530909841_df5b5633e8_c.jpg)
I’ve never been to a ANZAC Day dawn ceremony in my life, but I did happen to be awake at dawn, so went and stood in my yard as was the style at the time.
![Private dawn ceremony, Anzac Day](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51531836250_e34c8915ea_c.jpg)
![Anzac Day 2020: no gatherings, just signs](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51530107007_930e31cfde_c.jpg)
Someone somewhere was audibly playing The Last Post.
!["Smile" chalk drawing, lockdown chalk art](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51530908356_9c6caf1a56_c.jpg)