I suppose we had to expect a second wave of the corona virus at some stage. And it has arrived in Melbourne. Cases have soared. A person arriving in Darwin from Melbourne has become the first case in the Northern Territory for months. The man in his thirties had spent two weeks in quarantine after…
Life is almost back to normal here in Hervey Bay. We even saw stocks of hand sanitiser and surgical masks at the supermarket! We’re still been asked to social distance, but we don’t have to wait to go into the shops and to be honest, social distancing in the aisles is a bit of a…
The pandemic grinds on and with it, restrictions, although they are being eased. We’re not much affected, as you already know but we still read newspapers and watch the news. There are some real horror stories from nursing homes in particular, where death tolls are rising. As I write, there have been ninety-seven deaths in…
Gosh, another week has whipped by while we weren’t looking. The grocery stores are almost back to pre-covid-19 with a lot less empty space and the shops have lifted some restrictions on quantity. The instances of new cases of covid-19 have slowed to a trickle and the Powers That Be in Canberra and (mainly) the…
Here we are in week whatever-it-is of self isolation. The grocery stores are slowly coming back to normal but many small businesses (dress shops and the like) have closed. I suppose without customers it costs too much to stay open. And while places like nail salons and massage parlours are closed, hairdressers here can stay…
The media is full of coronavirus this and coronavirus that. Which is understandable. I never thought in my life that I would be confined to barracks and the football season would be cancelled. Pete and I consider ourselves fortunate that the spectre of contracting Covid-19 hasn’t impacted us much at all. We don’t go out…
How’s it all going on the home front, folks? Another week or so and our garden will be looking better than it has since we moved in. Bushes we should never have planted have been yanked out, trees cut back, vegies seeded, pool cleaned, weeds poisoned. As the ‘stay home’ rules tighten and the weeks…