If I could pick someone to be when I grow up I think it would be Nancy Rosser. At 90-years-old she’s teaching 3 aerobics classes a week. Let’s face it, I probably couldn’t do that now! Nancy is a great-great-grandmother and only started teaching aerobics at about 60-years-old (although that means she’s been at it…
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A Tribute in Covid (with sheep)
Like everywhere else on the planet, Australia has been hit by the Delta strain of Covid. Here we lockdown pretty much straight away (where I live locked down within hours of our first single case) which means we can’t cross state borders. When family things happen, you know, hatches, matches and dispatches, we can’t get…
Busy as a bee
I’ve been in strict lockdown now for 6.5 weeks. For most people, that has meant loads of extra time… for me it’s meant no time. I have been crazy busy over lockdown. It started with having to cover extra shifts at work for those in quarantine and from there I got way behind with everything…
Spring!
Today is the first day of Spring in Australia. If I could do cartwheels without killing myself I would. We don’t use the equinox in Australia to herald the change of seasons. Instead, the seasons change on the 1st day of September (spring), December (summer), March (autumn) and June (winter). The reason is twofold… the…
Be a Ken Behren
After over a year without a local covid case, Canberra (the Australian Capital Territory) is in covid lockdown. On Thursday the 12th August the “when it happens” (which we’d all been walking around saying for months), happened. We had our first positive covid case. 4 hours later we were in strict lockdown (and still are).…