I had the chance to pop into a walk in clinic to get. Pfizer booster shot yesterday.
Things were going well but overnight I have had a similar reaction to the initial AZ shot.
Exceptionally bad headache and acute muscle soreness everywhere! Chills.
Hope it is worth all this pain to be 95% covered from Covid. 😭
So today is the first day of freedom for people who reside in the city of Melbourne. The world record for the longest period of Covid related lockdown so far ever.
The traffic is heavy everywhere. With many people going into the country to experience a long long weekend. For the “race that stops a nation” it is Melbourne Cup week.
Most Melburians take this opportunity to take a long long weekend and “go bush”.
I am just doing my usual thing which is stay close to home and actually work on the Monday something I haven’t done for over 14 years now. The pressure has been on to deliver a project at work and I really could not spare any time off work.
Stay safe out there Melburnians on the roads and in the Covid world.
Booked my car in for a service weeks ago.
Due to Covid restrictions I am sitting in the undercover car park section waiting fir my car service to be completed. It has been raining since last night and it’s very cold here today.
Silly me, I should have worn full length socks.
Had a lovely chat with another lady waiting for her car to be serviced.
The breeze has picked up and I still have another 2 hours to wait. Should I get up, walk away in the rain and breeze and come back or should I sit in the comfy lounge chair in the freezing undercover car park flicking through Instagram images.
Happy Saturday out of lockdown in suburban Melbourne !!!
Enjoy the cold and rain!
We are suffering g through the last week of lockdown …it has been hard for many to heed the restrictions this year, which is told in the highest daily new case numbers every day …. Covid lockdown fatigue … set in for many and the need to break free ..
I am staying in my Covid safe bubble of one !
Friday night after work I faced a 5 lane car park instead of a free flowing freeway to get home.
A car accident somewhere along the way, and half of Melbourne’s northerly traffic stream came to a screaming holt and backed up into the suburbs quickly. Amidst all the cars were many people trying to escape the city for their country destination for the next 3 days. Me, I just wanted to get home from yet another hard day at work.
After some thought ….I made my way to the closest exit I could find and snaked my way home via the back roads. The usual half hour trip home took me over an hour….I tempered any frustration with another thought to drop into the local shopping centre to pick up some takeaway for dinner and a tub of salted caramel ice cream to soothe my upset nerves. Job done …home fed and happy!
#trafficjam #Melbourne#longweekend#Downunder
I loved learning English at school.
Poetry was my favourite part of the English syllabus. Today I came across a post of the web about a famous poem by Coleridge called Kubla Khan.
I read and listened to it again with a very adult ear and mind and so many thoughts flooded through my mind about the imagery that I missed as a young niave girl studying the poem in high school.
The season has turned here. Autumn is usually one of my favourite times of year. I don’t feel the joy of Autumn I usually experience. I am just so tired and feeling the cold already so early this year.
Here we are in February, 2021 and again we have new restrictions due to locally spread COVID cases from hotel quarantine. The State Government is doing an awesome job in keeping us safe here in Victoria.
I guess we wont be any closer to being a COVID safe country or world until world wide vaccinations are complete. But what is the potential for the COVID virus to keep mutating and keeping us scared silly about contracting the virus (for those who haven’t been infected yet).
In December 2020, I had barely crossed the Victorian/NSW border and within 24 hours it was closed again to anyone living in NSW or visiting NSW. I spent Christmas isolated from my family, the first Christmas I had ever spent alone. New Year 2021 came, again another Home Alone moment!
At the moment I am considering trying to visit my family again in early March 2021. It takes a solid six hour drive to get inside the Victorian border from by my family’s home in NSW. Should I tempt the COVID Border Gods? The possibility of being thrown in hotel quarantine for 14 days at your own expense does make you question any travel plans you are likely to have these days.
New Year’s Eve of 2021 (31-12-2020)
Looking forward to new chapters in my life in a new year of my life.
It has been so long since my last post and so much has happened since 2017.
Many people I loved have left this earth and new members of the family have arrived into my life. The promise of new beginnings has such a tantilising excitement for me …I am finding it hard to sit still and concentrate on one task at a time. All I can do is rejoice that I have the opportunity to make a difference in the world, in my own space, my family space and hopefully in the wider community.
2020
I plunged headlong into tending my garden over the last year as a source of enjoyment and distraction from the ugly world of Covid.
I survived a long drawn out lockdown, the harshest lockdown of any state in my country and some say the world. Covid continues to rear its ugly head whilst we are caught napping on the job it seems.
Continued to do my creative journalling and set myself a task to do a 5 min small drawing every day to use my creative brain before switching sides to the analytical, admin brain for work purposes. This task was extremely enjoyable, some “quickies” as I call them on my Instagram account were successful in my eyes and made me wonder at the drawings i produced. Other drawings were failures, again in my own eyes, but they have shown me that sometimes less is more! The process of drawing was also key to exercising muscle memory in the creative process. Later in that process I moved from black and white images to colour, I think I do have a preference for black and white though.
2019 May.
I challenged myself to become more creative after a holiday into a beautiful part of my country, Port Douglass and the Great Barrier Reef. There I saw first hand the beauty of the tropical rain forests and the exquisite reefs teaming with all manner of beautiful sea creatures. I was reminded of the delicate balance between humans and Mother Nature.
I experienced a beautiful sunset cruise on a sailing boat that invigorated me and took me back to fond experiences of sailing in my youth.
So when I returned from my refreshing holiday I started creative journalling. Every month I chose a theme and designed my journal around that theme, digging deep to find my drawing skills and creative juices. I also started dabbling in water-colour painting. This has led to a love of painting i wish i had found many years ago when I had the opportunity to check out a prominent watercolourist in the region of NSW I lived in. Unfortunately circumstances were not ideal and the opportunity was lost.
It’s an overcast day in Melbourne today. I took our beloved puppy, Sandee, for a walk at lunch time to get some exercise. The exercise is basically so I can improve my fitness levels for when I travel to Austria later in the year. My boss tells me there will be lots of hiking on this visit. Boy, Sandee really gave me a work out. By the time I arrived home the sweat was pouring off me.
I made a cuppa ( cup of tea to those who aren’t familiar with Aussie slang) and sat down at my computer to ponder my activities for the rest of the day. Google has a lovely banner up for Australia Day 2017. So I copied a screen shot for all to see since I assume the google banner is locally based.
“Acknowledgement to Google for image”
So what is up next ….editing some photos I took today before and after my walk, then maybe I can venture into the sewing room and be creative.I have a few projects on my mind to start or complete.
I have some lovely lamb chops and beef sausages to cook on the barbie ( barbeque) for a very early dinner, to serve with some coleslaw and pasta salad.
Happy Australia Day!
Garden Craft Designs 