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…
Posts Tagged with 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…
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).…
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…
Fate in concert
Yesterday I went to the theatre for the first time since before covid. The performance by the National Capital Orchestra was limited to a smidge over an hour performance time, with no interval, but the theatre was allowed 100% capacity. It was lovely getting out with a friend (we had a mutual friend playing in…