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

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.