Written 14 September, 2020 Who could predict it? There’s so much fury from the federal government towards Queensland and Victorian premiers over border closures- they are both being especially strict- that now the Queensland Chief Health Officer is getting death threats! and needs constant police guarding! I suppose someone, driven to the point of… Continue reading…
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Day 172
Written 12 September, 2020. They took one look and knew my heart was in a poor state. I was a premature baby, born at seven months, in the days before humidicribs, and I have a missing valve, one in my heart that never developed. My blood is sluggish. As well, there’s a family weakness,… Continue reading…
Day 168
Written 8 September, 2020 Daniel Andrews announced the releasing of restrictions in Victoria, to prevent a third wave, and all businesses are up in arms. the federal government is up in arms. Health must not take so long. All sorts of arguments are shouted against it. They’d like to strangle him. But the modelling… Continue reading…
Day 167
Written 6 September, 2020. This is how we spent today: And by late afternoon, we were reeling wiht exhaustion. But the work has only just begun….. Continue reading…
Day 166
Written 5 September, 2020 I’d invited Dave MacMonnies of the large Berowra RFS to come and tell us what we need to do to protect ourselves against a raging fire. It’s not just a matter of getting in our little boats and fleeing. Last summer, the huge Gospers Mountain fire was 30 kms away,… Continue reading…
Day 165
4 September, 2020. We wake to a stormy morning. Today, my zoom teaching of the ANU class of composers and musicians- but it’s special today, for my pin-up neuroscientist Professor Liane Gabora is zooming to speak to us. A dream come true. I’m going to ask her all the neuroscience questions no… Continue reading…
Day 164
3 September, 2020. We wake to heat, the sun streaming in, light bouncing back at us from the river, calling that it’s a holiday. The temperature is said to rise to 29 degrees, so unexpectedly at the end of winter, and we must obey the call. I talk GG into a boat trip, at… Continue reading…
Day 163
2 September, 2020. The second day of Spring. Much to- do about a woman in Victoria’s lockdown who was organising a protest against it- “the world’s biggest hoax” , she claimed, even though she’s giving in a state and a world where people are dying, oversees almost 870.000, in Australia 500- and to her… Continue reading…
Day 156
26 August, 2020. From the city: Today, my doctor, Doctor Danny Hameiri, told me that only two of his patients have come down with the virus. He puts everyone on daily supplements- Vit D3, Kyolic acid, astragalus, lactoferrin enhanced, melatonin, two Vit B12 injections a week, and if a runny nose, sofradex drops. Only… Continue reading…
Day 154
Written 24 August, 2020. Tonight the temperature drops to 3 degrees, and so it stays for 5 nights. We’re out of firewood for our pot belly stove- we burnt up the last three pieces last night. Of course there’s several dead trees on the ground, especially up near the fire trail I’ve yet to… Continue reading…