Travelling in Lockdown

We got our quarterly statement for New South Wales road tolls today, covering the timespan 1st July - 30 September. We were plunged into COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday, June 26. Here's our holiday snaps of all the places we have seen since then: That's right folks. We been nowhere. On the upside, our fuel bill …

Looking to History for Reassurance

Way back at the beginning of 2020 a friend lent me a copy of The first fifty years : a history of nursing at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney from 1882 to 1932. When it came time to return the book, COVID-19 was being referred to as CoronaVirus and it was something that was …

Cockatoos are Smarter than You Think

Remember a couple of weeks back when a cockatoo chucked a stone from an apartment roof and smashed my car windscreen? All ended well, the windscreen was repaired and the car passed its annual registration inspection, which, as luck would have it, was due that week. Most Aussies are well acquainted with the behaviour of …