Every Day Life
Here’s a New Business Opportunity for Qantas
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has just unleashed on Western Australia, accusing the state of acting like North Korea by keeping its borders closed. Mr Joyce said Australians should be “enraged” that they could travel to London but not Perth. “There isn’t even a plan for when WA will open up – it’s starting to look […]
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Victorian Schools – An Accidental History
On our travels around the state of Victoria, we have come across many historic school buildings in cities, towns and isolated bush locations. Looking through some of my photos, I realised that unknowingly,I have been recording something of a history of school buildings and philosophy of education. Every little town obviously had a a school […]
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My Christmas Walkabout With Violet
Normally, one doesn’t visit obvious tourist sites in one ’s one city unless you are hosting visitors from interstate or overseas. I had a wonderful day during this week with my granddaughter, Violet (aged 11), when we visited a few of the standout locations in Melbourne that had a Christmas decorations or a seasonal theme. […]
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Christmas Greetings to our Friends and Family
Dear family and friends, Another year has ended and we are looking forward to next year, anticipating that it will be a better year, just as we did at the end of 2020 (ha ha ha!). We have survived another year of Covid-19 after a total of 267 days in lockdown here in Melbourne. […]
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Thanks for Your Help
Thanks to those people who were kind enough to provide me me feedback on whether you could see the images in my recent subscriber emails. I appreciate all your input and it was very helpful. When I first noticed this problem, I immediately thought that there was something wrong wth my blog. Over a series […]
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Image Test Post
Excuse me. I’m trying a few things to see if I can fix a problem where my email subscribers are not seeing photos in the emails that my website sends you If you can see an image of an iceberg in this post, it means that I have found a fix. Otherwise, I’ll keep working […]
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Quarantine – Now and Then
Thanks to a very large number of Victorians getting vaccinated, we achieved a milestone this weekend where 80% of the 6.6 million people in the Victorian population are now fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The state government had linked the ability to open up our community from lockdown to the percentage of people who are vaccinated. […]
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Melbourne is a Different City!
Once upon a time, long ago (just two years in fact), Melbourne was ranked as the most liveable city in the world. Today, that has been replaced with our new status of being the most locked down city in the world! Under our Public Health State of Emergency (originally put in place in March 2021) […]
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I’m Angry, Disgusted and Bemused
I have delayed writing this post as I have been so angry, that I was at risk of filling it with profanity and inappropriate language. We are in the middle of our sixth lockdown here in Melbourne – one that has now taken us to being the most locked down city in the world – […]
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It’s Interesting What Happens When You Are Not Looking!
We are back in lockdown again, this time because of the very aggressive Delta strain of Covid. Our lockdown began on August 6th with the state government declaring that it act as a one-week long circuit breaker. It has now gone on for a month and we don’t think that it will end until late […]
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Vietnam Veterans Day 2021
August 18 marks the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan. On this day in 1966, in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tan, Australian soldiers fought one of their fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. This battle saw D Company, 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, face an enemy force of over 2000. […]
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Forty Nine Years and Another Lockdown
The entire East Coast of Australia is currently in lockdown The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus has reached here and is playing havoc with our lives again. This is the second year that we have celebrated our wedding anniversary in lockdown. Yesterday, we celebrated 49 years together. Last year we had booked a luxury […]
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