Day 9, Thursday 24th December The day began like any other… is that how the story goes? The story here is pretty much ‘same ole, same ole’. Sleeping, eating, reading, swimming, then start again. An important part of Christmas eve was to confirm our Christmas menu. Again we have divided the work. Braden will be…

DAY 8 – 23rd December Who remembers the lamb ads of the 80s? This ad was one of my favourites (can you have a favourite ad?! ) Naomi Watts became famous after this, from memory. Yesterday’s grocery order included a butterflied lamb leg. It arrived along with a few other essentials like cooked and green…

Who doesn’t love a list? If your answer is no, are you really even my friend 😉 I’ve been thinking a lot about what is good and bad about this situation we find ourselves in. It’s not so much about counting each and comparing, or weighing up the numbers in each list, but more about…

The beauty of not being able to go anywhere or do much is you have a great excuse to sleep in. Except I can’t. Sleep is not something that comes easily to me. Hard to get to sleep, hard to stay asleep, hard to sleep in. The best solution I have found is exercise. Catching…

Hello everyone. You were probably not expecting to hear from me, given that there is no overseas travel and all. But alas, here we are. I’m sure you all know about my love of cricket. For the last few years, I’ve joined my Dad and brother in South Australia to watch the Adelaide test. In…

That’s all Folks! (for now) Apologies for not finishing this series of posts on Wednesday – which for us was Day 14, the last day of compulsory self-isolation. Things got super busy at work, I got very tired, and just a little bit over everything… but now it’s the weekend, and I’m determined to close…

As luck would have it, Day 13 has been pretty good! We woke up healthy, we organised food to be delivered to Dave’s Mum, I went to work and achieved lots of things (and had lots of meetings), we ate well, and we enjoyed each other’s company. And as we roll over to April Fools…

When two is company, and three’s a crowd! As the rest of the country is being pulled into lockdown, step by step, (eg maximum of two people in a ‘crowd’) I am feeling more and more like where we are, at home in isolation, is exactly the right place to be. While we had to go…

‘Legs 11’, calls the Bingo leader. 11 days down means only three full days to go, after today. I couldn’t tell you the last time I played Bingo, but yes, I have. When I was working as a Customs Officer in the mid-late 80s, a group of us used to regularly go to Granville RSL…

These are a few of my favourite things. As Julie Andrews so beautifully sang in The Sound of Music: “When the dog bites When the bee stings When I’m feeling sad I simply remember my favorite things And then I don’t feel so bad”  ‘Favourite things’ can be people, places, items, tastes, sights even sounds… here…

Are we there yet? For so many children this is an oft-used statement, especially when on a long road trip. My two, when they were young, used to ask it around Gundagai, one hour into a five hour trip from Wagga to Sydney. Today, I am behaving in a child-like manner and using it myself!…

14 days of isolation, and we are up to day seven. Technically we wont be half way through until the end of today… but remember I’m keeping things positive! Positives We are both pretty healthy. Online orders of various kinds are arriving regularly – groceries, fruit and vegetables, plus other random things including some delicious…

Perspective   Todays list of advantages and disadvantages: Plusses My kitchen is only two metres from my ‘home office’. If I need a cup of tea or a pot needs stirring or I want to be distracted by looking aimlessly through my pantry; I don’t have far to walk. We are getting jobs done around…

I’m all ready to return to work! I got up early (which was about three hours after I woke up), had a soak in the bath before daybreak, watched the sun come up from the back room, watched the bins be collected sitting on the floor with Darryl, and have had Weetbix for breakfast. Will…