I feel like all I have done since March 2020 is cancel travel plans, reschedule, only to cancel again. It’s no surprise that the anticipation of upcoming travel has lost its thrill – I certainly don’t expect travel to happen until I am well enroute. It’s no surprise I felt the same way about making…
Covid Life
Tough year, but still a silver lining
It’s been a tough first half of the year (as you’ve probably realised from my absence). I’m trying to get back on track and to do that have decided rather than have a set blogging schedule like I used to, I’m going to post randomly. I’m pretty sure this will mean I post more than…
Border down
The last 4 days The Hub, Barbarians, Ludo and I have been visiting my parents in Queensland. Yep, we could finally head north after 2 years of closed borders! It was a fairly last minute decision, and none of us actually thought we’d make it until we were in the car and driving. It’s been…
Games, set…match
I’m sure everyone has heard by now that Australia has booted top seeded tennis player, Novak Djokovic, from the country as he is not vaccinated, which goes against our border policy. I’m not going anywhere near the politics of it, other than to say, “rules is rules” and just because you are famous and good…
Three times the good
Ever since the Barbarians could talk, we did “our favourite thing of the day” every dinner. We each took our turn to say what that our favourite thing was – could be as simple as playing with friends or reading a good book, but we had to find something that was our high point. A…