It's been a long time and pearl as note been at school for so long.
I have to be honest and say I struggle with lockdowns here.
It does my head in to be home 24/7
So I'm glad it's ending here in Albury .
Many things I need to buy at the shops and they will open up again tomorrow.
School goes back on Monday and then they break up for holidays on Friday.
It's really been bad for children , pearl has not seen any children for so long .Here where I live there are no children close by , so she has been quite sad for some time and bored out of her mind .
Online learning is not so easy when your 6 years old .
So tomorrow is the day and think we will go out away from Albury for the day .. what a year we have all had !!!!

Pete.....

G'day Pete,

Just had my first day back at school in over two weeks, feels great to be back and enjoy some freedom.
How long has Albury been in lockdown?
I'm sure your daughter will love being out and about being able to see other kids again.
Fingers crossed with rising vaccinations we won't see any major lockdowns again.

Lance

Hello Lance ,
I can't remember the date we went into lockdown. Seems like a long time ago.
I'm glad to hear you are back at school. It's very important ,not so much from an educational aspect as you can always catch up,But children and young teens are very social and without that contact issues pop up .I see the affect on pearl at 6.
Plus your only young once and it's best to enjoy it...
Lets hope things continue to open up and improve..
Pete.......

Glad your lockdown has ended. Here we have another two weeks all going well which makes things difficult. Vaccinations are going at a great pace so hopefully that will help.

I am yearning for the chance to return to Hill End for a camping trip. It's been a while now.

Being in Steak and Kidney, there will be a few weeks left yet before plans can be made.

"Being in Steak and Kidney"

In Bris, I worked with a kid just in from Sydney in the early 70s, he had really absorbed the rhyming-slang culture from there, with a name for everything. So one day I asked him 'what's the word for "Guts"?' (as in 'a kick in the guts'.) He had to think for a second, then came up with "Dog & Sluts". -- I wonder if it was genuine Sydney slang, or if he was improvising in the moment?

Sounds made up on the spot to me.

The problem I have with so-called rhyming slang here is that it isn't done properly. In the home of rhyming slang -- London's East End -- only the first word of the rhyming phrase is used, not the entire thing. So, the wife (trouble and strife) is referred to simply as 'the trouble'.

I often shorten rhyming slang but some of the examples I often use aren't printable here. There are some that generally cannot be shortened though, such as dog's eye and dead horse, for a meat pie and sauce.

I agree with GTC on that other example being on the fly - I've never heard that one before.

I always suspected he might have been winging it

Well, That was short lived, After weeks of lockdown we then got 4 days of freedom and now straight back into lockdown!
Nightmare of a year!....pete

So, it turned out to be a Clayton's reprieve.


Meanwhile:

QUOTE: Queenslanders in home quarantine will need to answer a randomly-timed text message within 10 minutes or risk a visit by the cops, as part of strict new Covid compliance laws announced this morning.

I dunno, some people need saving from themselves!

It turns out a truck driver who lives in Albury brought covid back from one of his trips and he works for a plumbing company next door to my butcher !!
The other case is person who travelled on a train from Melbourne I think, They also live here !
But what they are very concerned about ,apart from these 2 people having been mixing with the community iS they have found samples of covid in the Drains so people here have covid.
They are also concerned about the indigenous not far from here as many are run down with health issues etc etc. .
So that's what happened as far as I know , Pearls school was closed down today , instead of tomorrow when holidays were due to start.
Ive had both my shots some time ago and I read an article on the news that said only 2 percent of people in ICU are fully vaccinated.

Also I will add some selfish cow of a woman took her 3 children to school with some type of bad flu or coughing bug and I was there when the teacher come over and abused for doing so !!
The teacher said her ,look around you every one is wearing masks and not even allowed to enter the school and don't send your children to school sick!!
Which I agree with 100 percent

It has been several days of incidents apart from looking down Albury; We have a bus load of Orientals from Melboune that booked vaccination on line for Sydney Road Broadmeadows & ended up in Sydney road Beechworth & caused havoc.

Also a courier that tested positive has caused the closing down of nearly all food shops there. I am wondering if he here to Wangaratta where likewise, several food outlets a butcher, a couple of corner stores and restaurants are closed to courier delivered pox.

It is quite obvious that the academics running the show in Vic have lost it along with the rest. Leaving me to continue to ask; "what practical experience have they had in biosecurity" and what genuine qualifications do they have?

These, who must be considered narcissistic, in the light of the fact that people in the rural food industry ( Farmers, Vets, Vignerons, Dairy etc) were never consulted, yet we are the people who live & breath biosecurity all our working life.

As a result they have re-opened "Pandora's Box" and in it is the only hope of stopping what they have let slip through their fingers six times in Vic alone, making a world wide mockery of there claims as to how good they were at stopping it.

It's the winner: They have lost it; It will now run amok.