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…
Australia
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).…
PEMDAS v BODMAS
I always thought maths, at least basic maths, was fairly black and white. 2 + 2 = 4. The only possible solution is 4. Any other answer is wrong. Turns out, in your own country basic maths is black and white, but when you start leaping international borders it is suddenly… grey. I grew up…
Covid 0, masks 1
At the moment Australia has a large Delta covid outbreak, and a small Alpha outbreak. Not that our numbers are all that big in comparison to other countries – there are 455 people with covid in Australia at the moment (and that includes those who are in hotel quarantine after arriving in Australia – every…