Written 2 January, 2021. So exciting to write the new year. The very 21 murmurs hope. Yet virus numbers are growing in Victoria and in NSW, seven more today, and at last Gladys has mandated masks, after pressure from the AMA. It’s now clear to many that the virus spreads through the air, not… Continue reading…
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Day 279
Written 29 December, 2020. This morning in my nightie, I saw a message from Dee: Want to go up the creek and see if they’re ok? I can’t resist an adventure. K saw me throwing on clothes and insisted on packing me a care package in case we get stuck: a thermos of tea,… Continue reading…
Day 276
December 26, 2020. A day of little achievement. In the afternoon, Dee mentioned he was leaving to pick up friends who, with no idea of the moods of this river, planned to canoe from Berowra towing children, some as young as 5, lying on paddle boards all the way to the camping ground up… Continue reading…
Day 275
Written December 25, 2020. I had been so nervous, just as if I was new at it, the householder confecting Christmas in isolation. I’d never thought of it before K, but there’s an obligation on householders to create a Merry Christmas. It all rests on somebody. The others contribute, but someone has to make… Continue reading…
Day 274
Written December 24, 2020. Just as I was expecting we’d be alone in the bay for the Big Day, S explained that they were staying and expecting company- their son, his girlfriend, and another friend. I’ll be glad of people making happy noises next door. Today Dee has been setting up the pontoon power… Continue reading…
Day 273
Written December 24, 2020. If we were miserable as we left for the river – and we were a little, for not only was the virus raging again in the city – laughable by world standards for it’s only 68 today in Sydney (compared to 228,000 in the US and 46, 696 in Brazil)not… Continue reading…
Day 269
Written December 19, 2020. We’re in the city, getting ready to leave for Melbourne- then suddenly – So sad. 39 infections, all near the Northern beaches but that’s enough for Daniel Andrews, the Victorian premier.He’s put up the border. As he should. Victorians battled so hard to get the numbers down, at… Continue reading…
Day 267
December 17, 2020. A day watching the numbers of infections grow. It’s stable at 17, mainly around the Northern beaches. Tomorrow we go back to the city, to get ready to fly on Wednesday to Melbourne for Christmas with GG’s sister, his niece and her family. They’ve become as precious as my birth family.… Continue reading…
Day 266
Written 16 December, 2020. Today, 3 locally transmitted cases in NSW! One a driver who transports air line staff- were they wearing masks?- it turns out rules for airline staff aren’t as strict here as for ordinary OS travellers- plus 2 older people in the Northern beaches. We depend on contact tracers to see… Continue reading…
Day 264
Written 15 December, 2020. https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/electoral-college-voting-to-formally-make-joe-biden-the-next-us-president/live-coverage/a9ef37eb453876b5c468a75129281663 I’ve longed for this day! If I did, a world away, imagine how overjoyed Americans must feel. At last Joe Biden is safely the President Elect of the US, with an enormously compassionate speech, and the first time, anger at Trump. But it’s the same day the death toll of… Continue reading…