Kiwi Chateau     

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Geoff is an IT guy and Graphic Artist specialising in 3D Modeling and ray-traced Rendering. Little did he know how prophetic the following Render would prove to be when he created it on 30th December 2019:

MARCH 2020:

Of course, it wasn't until March that Coronovirus started to be taken seriously in France.

"Lockdown" started at Noon on 17th March, after which we could only venture out for medical reasons and in order to purchase essentials. For each outing a new Government form (Attestation) had to be completed and 2-meter Social-Distancing rules were introduced, along with the wearing of masks, COVID-19 apparantly being being droplet-borne:

APRIL 2020:

The wearing of masks became common-place:

And some technologies took advantage of "the new normal":

... with a hat-tip to the highly-recommended movie (in Geoff's humble opinion), "X-Machina".

After almost a month of lockdown, Easter arrived:

Social-Distancing was such that access to supermarkets was restricted to only so-many people at a time. Outdoor queues were long. At least there wasn't 3ft of snow! :

With hair-dressers and barbers closed, personal grooming standards changed:

For MANY, long term plans were disrupted. Just imagine hosting a special, catered birthday party... and nobody being able to attend! One of our friends was forced to celebrate his 64th alone with his wife:

(Still not sure what happened to her!)

MAY 2020:

After eight weeks (on 11th May) France started to ease some of its lockdown restrictions. The UK followed suit a couple of days later. But bear in mind, this was a GLOBAL pandemic...

Public Transport was initially shunned in favour of walking, cars and bicycles, creating new levels of inner-city parking issues and obstacles:

Those who had no choice but to use Public Transport naturally took heightened precautions:

While a lucky few took the opportunity to escape the city altogether, embracing the freedom of the Great Outdoors:

With Cruise Ships being out-of-service, yet others let their imaginations loose on creative alternatives:

JUNE 2020:

Broadcasters found new ways to Podcast... from their under-the-stairs cupboards... and their Pods ! :

Pods with a View, even! :

Some people found safety, peace and inner solace by moving to far-flung monasteries:

Whilst others ventured even further afield:

... and a lucky few just lay around at home, being pampered:

By mid-June, people were allowed outside of their social bubbles of immediate family or two people.

Oh how wonderful it was to be able to go to the parks again, although it wasn't quite the same as it once was:

Now we have a better understanding of how fishes feel!

What's Afoot...

... doing in here?

Sporting Events began to restart, but much thought was put into how best to Socially-Distance, where possible.

Of the Contact-Sports, a clear no-brainer was "Shadow-Boxing":

Meanwhile, Down-Under (in New Zealand), they had been experiencing extreme drought conditions and were exploring all manner of possibilities to restore reservoir water-levels:

They called for L'eau... and Behold ! :

More to come...
   ... Be very afraid!      ;-)