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The first thing I bought in lockdown in Melbourne was a pair of shoes. Strappy, white, summery high heels, they arrived the week after I started working from home, a couple of days after the state borders started closing across Australia six months ago. I have never worn them.
Since that first lockdown purchase, many parcels have arrived at my house. I bought 12 giant balls of yarn for the thousand knitting projects I had planned (I have finished precisely one). I bought 20kg of bread flour from an upmarket wholesaler when everyone else started making sourdough and cleaning out the supermarket shelves. For the first time in my life I clicked through on a Facebook ad – and actually purchased. I bought boots I’ve worn twice (to the supermarket), and silk pants I wore out once – to the hairdresser, in that brief interregnum between lockdown one and two. I ordered colour-depositing hair conditioner when she told me that my follow-up appointment would be at least three months later than we’d planned.
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