Six weeks in

We will have done 6 weeks of lockdown tomorrow - so only three more to go (maybe??). So far daily COVID case numbers  have stayed pretty static in Canberra - not increasing, but not reducing much either, unfortunately. Our city has the highest double vaccination rate in Australia (over 50% of eligible population) and at least 80% of all over 12 year olds have had at least a single dose . So we're getting there - go Ken Berhens!

Over the past few weeks we've got into a lockdown routine that keeps us busy, keeps us fit and well and brings us lots of happy times with Ella and Abi, and a few friends and neighbours as well.

We continue to take the girls to the park a couple of afternoons a week, as a break from their school at home work. Its a treasured time for us - how lucky are we to have the girls so enthusiastic about going to the same old park every second afternoon in the company of their grand-parents (a definite silver lining of lockdown for us!). The girls even seem keen to do this with us even now they're in school holiday mode (although school holidays in lockdown mode are a bit of a non-event really).

We saw this mob of kangaroos on the way to the park yesterday afternoon - in the reserve just over the road from J & J's house). Its probably been a good breeding season for kangaroos with all the rain we've had. Abi was impressed.

Another nice routine we've started is to do a walk and picnic lunch each week with our friends Judy and Jurgen. So far we've walked the lake and lunched on Aspen island, walked Weston Park and lunched by the lake - and yesterday we met at Canberra's Arboretum, doing the scenic Dairy Farmers Hill walk and then lunching at possibly the most scenic spot in Canberra, right at the top of the hill. We usually walk with Judy and Jurgen's doggies, Charlie and Poppy. Charlie came on his own yesterday and I volunteered to be the dog walker (I really like Charlie), but I did  battle to keep him "on track" given the excitement of being outdoors with all those sights and sounds and birds everywhere.....

Canberra looked beautiful from here - the only distraction being the icy wind gusts coming straight off the snowfields south of Canberra..

This picnic lunch up on Dairy Farmers Hill was the most scenic so far, we decided - and complete with a stunning sculptural piece too. We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful city - and all of this within the recommended 5klms of where we live!

And to continue my lockdown sustainable sewing project journey. I cut up a few of Rob's old linen shirts (cutting off the worn bits!) and sewed them into a new summer top for me - a design I made up myself! I'm pretty pleased with it!

Next lockdown project might have to be working out how to do a hair trim???