Today my eldest Barbarian (Heckle) starts back at school after 6 weeks of closed schools. Thanks to a gradual start to face-to-face schooling, Jeckle won’t start back until 2 June (after 8 weeks away). Both Barbarians are excited to be going back to school. Online learning just isn’t the same. Hopefully everything will go well…
Australia
Mother’s Day
Today is the day all mothers should feel loved. For me, that’s what it is all about. I have a strong objection to the materialistic aspect of Mother’s Day and The Hub and I have drilled it into the Barbarians that they should never spend money on either Mother’s or Father’s Day. Instead, they should…
COVIDSafe App
To enable Australia to ease our lockdown restrictions, the government has released the COVIDSafe App. The more Aussies who install the app, the better our chances of more freedom of movement. The app allows tracking of covid cases a lot more effectively than is occurring at the moment. The image below explains how it works……
Lockdown unlocking
I live in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). We are blessed to be the first place in Australia to be covid free. We have no active cases of covid, and have had no new cases for about a week now. With that good news, as of this weekend, our restriction are easing (although physical distancing…
Writing Retreat Cruise #2
Continuing my report of my writing retreat cruise (read #1 here). As I said last time, there were two highlights from my day in Perth. After lunch we went to an Escape Room. I’ve always wanted to do one of these (I do write mysteries after all) so I was very excited. Our mission was:…