Since 2019 I haven’t made resolutions for the year ahead. Instead I’ve made SMART goals as you can read about in my 2021 post. Not surprisingly I didn’t quite reach all my goals – but considering it was another covid year, I am pretty happy with what I did achieve. For 2022 I’m sticking to…
Covid Life
Canberra’s covid Christmas tree
I’m not sure how covid vaccination stats are reported elsewhere in the world, but in Australia we have a stacked bar graph that shows first and second vaccination numbers for each age group and by sex, and for different states/territories. Back in November (when we were at 95%+ double vaccinated 12 years and over), the…
Great advice
One of Australia’s leading psychologists presented a webinar today run by Heckle’s school. He talked about student stress and mental health, particularly the extra issues covid has brought on our kids. It was quite an interesting workshop, and I definitely got some great tips. There was one thing he said, though, that particularly resonated. He…
Save Australia?
This week I was rather bemused to see protests in America wanting to “save Australia”. The thing is, Australia doesn’t want, or need, saving. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s wonderful to see such kind-heartened Americans taking time out of their working day to want to save us – I’m just puzzled what they…
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…