In September 2019, Australia started to burn. Where I live we had 4 months of hot, windy, smoke-filled skies with fire warnings keeping us attached to our phones. Then we had a serious hail storm (take the more than 20,000 cars written off as an indicator). Then covid19. It’s been a year to forget. To…
Covid Life
Panic
This post is very late, but this is me right now… Not a literal fire, but it seems like everything has all happened at once. I am the president of the P&C (parent and citizens) Association of Jeckle’s school. We have a Bunnings sausage sizzle scheduled for tomorrow. Bunnings is a hardware mega store, and…
I dream of…
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. One thing you dream of doing.I’m sure everyone here knows that I dream about being a published author, but there’s something else I dream of probably more often than my author goal. Quite possibly because if I was able to fulfil…
To be shot…
or not to be shot. That seems to be the question! The shot I am referring to is the covid vaccine. After months of everyone keeping their fingers crossed a vaccine could be developed, there are a number on the horizon. 2021 should be the year of the jab. But with the desperate wishes of…
Penguin soap opera
Turns out, penguins can leave any daytime soap opera for dead when it comes to relationships – the ones locked up at Kyoto Aquarium, anyway. Back in July, a Kyoto-based researcher, Oliver Jia, posted about the penguin shenanigans, saying the penguins are “known to be vicious animals who cheat on their partners and steal other’s…