a long que to enter the state of Victoria due to covid regs, this was fast compared to some and took two hours and 30 minutes to 'cross over' there was time to spot a koala, go walking and see the large river gum trees.

 Government ministers hold long press conferences every day when under twenty cases of covid infection are recorded each day.  Contrast this with the thousands upon thousands overseas.   

It is entirely up to us to prevent the spread.  Sadly the theatre in the image should be closed, maybe it is, crowds should not form at all. No long term gain without a big effort. Look at the western world alone to see what can happen.  Are they in denial?  Too little too late.  Take heed!

 

 

 

ABC fm radio classics play Max Bruch's violin concerto every so often. It is always a winner.  Noah Bendix Balgley is terrific.   Interpretations become steadier, deliberate no less brillant, possibly as it should be. 

However, other faster versions remain with you, it is hard to forget them.  Jascha Heifetz is heard on YouTube. I guess he was one of the outstanding violinists of the past. 

To the left watching the sunrise is a tall stark tree who, once again, is striving for photosynthesis and the will to live.

 It wants to belong to the global forest legions who take up the offensive against dreaded carbon dioxide to liberate an oxygen rich life force. 

To cling to a number one role in global climate is a mighty purpose not easily given up but easily defeated and lost by  thoughtless land clearing. 

Australiana

Sunrise, Kulin nation and Taungurung peoples, Lake Eildon. 

literary moves

As an unusual activity i read a book. burnt sugar from avni doshi.

 On one side, this work has a rather negative air or does it? Who can say. There are matters to identify with along with glimpses into modern Indian life where, off hand, the protagonist held some unusual understandings of her lived experience - occasionally that is.

 Yes, simple yet complex, needs more time to digest if it is worth it.

A Beginning or a Farewell? One of many in the days of our lives. Bitter sweet moments. "Multinationals" and an airport.

the face of yesteryear in Newcastle

Pandemic: So far so good. Newcastle is ok that way.  The saga of the city is alive.

Uncomfortable place between two trains. Lines converge sure enough.  We are converging from near and far into a virus free or close to free space. 

In the last four weeks pandemic infections have numbered in the high  hundreds then  down again to round one hundred in the south and between ten and twenty in NSW.

The state borders are closed resulting in great inconvenience to many people all over the country and federal government looks on helpless - after all they are redundant.  Mask wearing is adopted far and wide. Other regulations are in use. Tight suppression of virus seems within reach. 

'Communists have no class' worn by an activist i know from in the day when activism was active...   now so infra dig? Disappointing.

"Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes...are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were...by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise....they defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.

Then everyone took to shouting at the Communists: You're the ones responsible for our country's misfortunes....

And the accused responded: We didnt know! We were deceived! We were true believers!...we are innocent!

Did they really not know or were they merely making believe?"

Orchids.

rich, soft, sweet, chocolate 🍓

double dose of statins before and after🏥

The topping looks like s### 🤣 

Food of love? 💝

Fathers day 🥳 

Oh! Thats next week! 

This text appears as usual and published on cue even while this mob needs attention as lately it wont accept any text input or is the big-name-search-engine out to get me because in anger and haste some access has been denied by myself. Well, good, it prevents some on-line shopping and form filling-in.

  E-mail is also a casualty along with comment writing not that that is undertaken very often. Will it get sorted and soon.

spring is in the air   

looks like summer but for the cold brisk wind 

Ms Enid circa 1950s

Final year of school circa 1940

Once upon a time we had the New age, the age of Aquarius, mysticism and counter culture.  It held promise, a Belle Epoque in the making. What happened?

Media, exercise, fitness, quasi-Buddism.

In any time or place there can be brief wonderment and powerful heightened awareness as a change.

On another tack, nothing explicit is heard about ethics and being 'decent' people. It must rest on example, legislation and fines or how will community ideals continue and why ever?

Some say we have inate right and wrong that undergoes maturity. Do we all shoulder efforts to further maturity? 

In the pandemic the young are reminded to protect the most vunerable. We expect to rely on them and somehow hope they know a worthy course of action.

from 7th century and Tang dynastry

The hair style is back in again. 

Federal gov is throwing money at the mental health 'silos', terrific if it is effective. 

It means more fragmentation of health services. EXISTING STATE funded services need significantly more assistance instead of the feds dabberling and justifying a role.

Thats the way, reinvent the wheel over and over.

a truly delightful work from the Jin dynasty 1115 -1234 Shanxi Prov.  Wood, pigment. 

preschoolers art: so what? The work serves a purpose sure enough but it is really very important for developing fine motor skills as I discovered.

Learning to write and hold a pencil requires skill from a big school child but it is not unusual to find, more recently,  that they do not have this ability.  

It is suspected that children who use touch screens from a very early age fail to exercise their fingers in a useful way and fail to prepare themselves for precise tasks.

Hence, in general terms to my limited knowledge, maximum activities best involve handling sorting building threading and painting from the earliest years to build strong competent fingers when screen time is best banned altogether.