Monthly Archives: May 2020

Home, Ringwood North (Melbourne) Monday, 11 May 2020 So, here I am sitting at my old desk again in Ringwood North, pecking away at my keyboard.  In some ways it feels like I’m trying to recall a dream after waking up from a 4-month sleep.  Like any dream, there are bits that are starting toContinue reading “I’m Free Again!”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Sunday 10 May 2020 Looking back on my last full day in captivity, (and let me say Happy Mother’s Day to all relevant parties), it’s hard to pin down exactly what I’ve been doing.  There was online church at 10:00am, followed by a smaller gathering of half-a-dozen or so,Continue reading “Just One More Sleep”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Saturday 9 May 2020 The phone call around 9:30 this morning was most unexpected.  “Hello Mr Latimer, you’re down for a fresh-air-break today, around 6:30-7:00pm.  Is that OK with you?” … I was caught a bit off guard, and simply said, “Ah, yeah, that would be great, thanks …Continue reading “More Fresh Air”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Friday 8 May 2020 Before breakfast, or at least the delivery of my breakfast-meal-bag, I had the latest, Victorian Government’s Health & Human Services, “Coronavirus Newsletter” slipped under my door.  As before, it was full of questions in bold print I’d never thought of asking, with answers I hopeContinue reading “Testing Time”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Thursday 7 May 2020 Over the past few days, I’ve been uploading photos and captions to the earlier parts of this blog.  In particular, the first 14 days of March, just two months ago, when Linda, Matt and James came aboard Chimere at Bluff – at the very botton-endContinue reading “Re-Living the Voyage”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Wednesday 6 May 2020 I slept-in today.  Didn’t even hear the bang on the door and the words … actually, only one word … “BREAKFAST” It was close to 8:00am by the time I was finally conscious enough to realise … “Breakfast!!”  And as I opened my door justContinue reading “It’s the little things”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Tuesday 5 May 2020 Back in the 1960s it was artist Andy Warhol who suggested that … “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”.  Well, today I was happy with ten minutes … not of fame, but of fresh air and the chance to aimlessly wanderContinue reading “10 Minutes of Freedom”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Monday 4 May 2020 Is the glass full, or is the glass half empty … ?  While the contents of a glass, (or the elapsed time in detention for that matter), at the 50% level, might be a provable fact, as we all know, this popular saying represents aContinue reading “Half Way Down Or Half Way To Go”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Sunday 3 May 2020 It’s kind on an ironic title today … being Sunday, and in quarantine, I suppose you would call this a rest day, among rest days I was going to run with the title “Food Rustling”, because the sound of paper bags rustling outside the doorContinue reading “Day Of Rest”

Pan Pacific Hotel, Rm 1214 (Melbourne) Saturday 2 May 2020 We all know the saying … “a watched pot never boils”?  Certainly, there’s a sense in which the more you think about being locked up in a room – even if the lock is on the inside – the slower time goes and the moreContinue reading “Five Down, Nine to Go”