Year: 2020
Bellarine Peninsula and The Great Ocean Road
Last week, we had another few days away before Christmas, this time at the RACV Resort at Torquay on the southern coast of Victoria. Torquay is just one and a half hours drive from Melbourne on the Southern Ocean coast by the western entrance to Port Phillip Bay. It, and nearby towns, are currently booing […]
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Melbourne at Christmas
Two things have come together for us, just at the right time. Firstly, our virus restrictions have been significantly removed. For the last thirty nine days, we have had no new cases of coronavirus in Victoria and Australia is now virtually virus free. The only cases that exist are those of returned overseas travellers and […]
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Our First Time Away in Six Months
The virus restrictions in Victoria have been further lifted to allow us to move about freely within the state. Masks are now only required indoors and pubs and restaurants are allowed to seat many more customers. It has been 24 days since our last community transmission of the virus and right now, the state is […]
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Japlish Has Come to Australia!
Before I get into the main subject of this post, I am very happy to say that our state of Victoria has now passed 19 days without a single case of coronavirus. We expect another announcement on Sunday from our Premier and we hope that it will contain more good news about further releases from […]
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We Are Out of the Woods!
We have had two wonderful pieces of news in the last couple of days. The first, relates to the way that we have managed to get coronavirus under control in Victoria. Over the last nine days we have had absolutely new zero cases of the virus in Victoria. Restrictions have been further eased and there […]
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There is Light at the End of The Tunnel!
As I have said in one of my previous blog posts, the State of Victoria has endured one of the longest lockdowns in the world. All was going well until mid June when incompetent security companies and their guards spread the virus from hotels that were hosting travellers who were in compulsory lockdown after returning […]
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This Lockdown Continues
I wrote my last blog post about three weeks ago. Not a lot has happened since then but I thought it was worth posting another blog as part of the history of this period of lockdown. Sometime in the future I, or maybe others, will then have a more complete record of this time in […]
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I’m Going Back to Work
I have been watching the judicial inquiry into the escape of coronavirus from the hotel isolation program when incompetent and apparently corrupt security companies were hired to guard people who had returned from overseas and were placed in compulsory hotel isolation. The incompetence of these guards allowed the virus to escape into the community resulting […]
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We Are Now Doing Well With Our Lockdown
Two weeks ago I was frustrated and angry at having our second lockdown extended for another two weeks. Since March, we have had only two weeks in which we could travel away from our house and we have been feeling very restricted. I think we have some good news now and that is going to […]
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Happy 100th Birthday to my Auntie Phyl
Now that I’m in my 70’s, I am very lucky to have some Aunts who are still alive. People on both sides of my family seem to have lived long lives. My favourite, Aunt Phyllis, turned 100 years today. She is my mother’s younger sister. Phyllis was born in Hamilton in 1920. She was the […]
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A Disappointing Road Map Out of the Lockdown
It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted but that’s because in this lockdown we’ve hardly been doing anything. Apart from a couple of weeks when we were able to get out at during May, we have now been stuck at home since last March The Premier of Victoria announced a road […]
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Maintaining My Sense of Humour
We are now halfway through our second six-week lockdown period in Melbourne and things are looking a little better. The number of new virus cases in Victoria has dropped from over 700 per day at the peak to now around 180 per day. Keeping people masked and apart seem to be working. Whether this will […]
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