Show me your Breakfast Breakfast Friday 2/1/2025

I'm about to enter The Zone. The NYE zone. Bed Goodnight! 🎇 🎆 🎉 🥳 🍾 🥂

Time stops for noone Be kind

I'm going to get this in early. The best thing in my personal life in 2025 was the birth of this little chap, my one and only grandchild. The worst, most stressful, saddest thing was my dad's stroke, cancer & death. I don't do New Year's goals. I just hope to live through it and have some good times

I'm #oneofthethree not #oneofthetwo. Some pathetic people find the fact we wear masks amusing. The joke is on them. Covid is proven to age people, including vascularly. We haven't had any virus since the pandemic started. Masks work 😷

2025. COVID causes accelerated vascular aging and should be considered a vascular disease academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ar...

Around yr 2000 my two kids and husband all were violently ill with fever, vomiting, diarrhea, exhaustion and then cough. I didn't get sick. I assumed it was flu. Don't recall if we had the vaccines back then. I spent days...

Today I sold my sewing machine. The couple turned up wearing N95s. I'd written that I'll be in a mask so I thought that's why they masked but they said they always mask. Virtually no one around here does and they apparently live nearby (Tasmania Australia).

Had to have a pav so here it is. A messy one this year. Had to get it out the oven early for the turkey.

This is my first Christmas without my dad, mum and Aunt (died) and also 5th Christmas in a row without one of my sons. Also our grandson's first Christmas and he's not with us. So, somewhat sad, but also grateful.

🎵 Christmas in Tasmania's not hot, Cold and frosty's what we've got, When snow on mountain tops appears, Christmastime is here

Stay out of Greenland USA

Facebook is absolutely full of people suffering Influenza. Seems like the whole world has lots of it right now.

Imagine if any other world leader said that about another country. Imagine in Australia if our PM announced that Australia needs to have New Zealand for our security. Lol lol. Trumps “special envoy” will be going with threats and waving carrots. Disgusting. Plus tomorrow is Christmas.

🎄 Just had a beautiful thing happen! Local Aus Post staff member phoned to let me know we had three Express Post packages waiting for us there (no rural delivery here). Post offices don't call people! Tasmanian people can be so nice! There is still kindness. Merry Christmas 😊

White Christmas expected for parts of Tasmania. We won't have it falling at our place but may see it on mountains around us 🏔️ ❄️ www.weatherzone.com.au/news/white-c...

The 🤫 part: “Last week, a person died from covid-19 every 44 seconds, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, told journalists at a press briefing on Wednesday. “Most of these deaths were avoidable,” he said.” www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/08/1...

🤢 Do people hear themselves when they say how important it is to get sick to not get sick? 😷

Not perfect but our Christmas tree is fun. Husband did it this year.

Ok. Looks like a cold Southern Tas Christmas by the fire for us! 🎁

We call this dressing gown "Mother". Billy suckles it. Started when he was a baby. I then had to give it up and get myself a new one.

Years ago I used to love giving and receiving Christmas cards. I'd string them up along the top of the living room window and place them along a shelf. This year we only received 1 card and sent only 4. I had this idea, one year I might strong up cards from years past from loved ones. Why not!

This was me 45 years ago, young and free. I miss that feeling

Watched an old home video. My mum visiting day 2 after baby's birth. She had a deep cough and congested. I was heavily medicated and didn't notice. The day we left hospital my son turned blue. He had his first chest infection. Age 2 was diagnosed with an immune deficiency disorder. Immunoglobulins.

The climbing rose I planted in memory of mum soon after she died has finally started to look how I imagined

There has not been a mass shooting in Australia since 1996. Almost 30 years ago! The horrific Bondi event yesterday is not something we expect, not part of life here. Let's hope there are no more.

Many of us know that park in Bondi. We have a lovely picnic there with our boys when we visited. There’s something about Bondi that adds to the horror. Those poor people who died, were injured or lost someone. Those facing PTSD. This shooting is luckily a very rare event in Australia but awful.

Its 9C. Summer!!! Southern Tas

The birds come and go, different species making here home then off they go Just like the wind and rain, like snow and sun

Best moment of the day

This year I had two Covid, dtap and influenza vaccines. Next year I’ll have two Covid, influenza and RSV vaccines. The following year I’ll have two Covid, influenza and Shingles vaccines. The next year I’ll have two Covid, influenza and pneumococcal vaccine. I might get my measles titres checked too

He's happy being home

Here is the prettiest flower I photographed yesterday in Deloraine. Dedicated to all coviders trying to just protect their health in an uncaring world.

Even though covid is low here in Australia atm (estimate around 1 in 1,000 people) I'm glad I had a vaccine 2 weeks ago. I now feel I can do some things that I haven't done for years like walk along a path unmasked (giving space to others) & will go to a small cinema masked. I can have them 6 mthly

Korean study finds how COVID-19 affects memory, suggests a possible treatment. Korean researchers found the COVID S1 spike protein disrupts nerve cells, harming memory and causing anxiety in mice. Metformin restored nerve function and reduced toxic proteins, suggesting a possible treatment.

A little stop in beautiful Deloraine Tasmania on our way home from noisy busy Victoria

From now on I'm going to say I wear a mask because I'm asthmatic and don't want respiratory infections. Never going to refer to the word "COVID" or my "autoimmune disease". People understand asthma/respiratory infections. COVID is a ghost now to them and the world makes people angry

When covid is low like this its a great time to go the cinema, a market, a concert, eat outside a cafe etc. wear a mask and feel safe, knowing it's unlikely you'll be exposed to covid

I offered to have Christmas with my sister next yr since she wrote she & her husband will be alone and she's missing our deceased parents. I said we have a Pluslife machine to test for covid, just needs a swab. She replied "are you going to lighten up on that, it's 2025! Covid is weakened now & rare

I had a dream where I kept trying to work out if I was asleep or awake. Lots happened, I was asking people if I was awake. Then I saw my mother and cried. She asked me why. I lay my head on her soft chest and said, now I know I'm asleep as I can only see you in my dreams, because you're dead (❤️mum)

Love this

Woke up in heaven listening to magpies

This is worrying. Influenza is still up in Victoria and across Australia yet it’s summer. It’s fluA

So 9 month old grandbaby doesn't have Hand Foot & Mouth, results show he has Salmonella poisoning AND norovirus!! We're visiting later today but masking inside,mostly being outside, wearing gloves/hand sanitizing and avoiding drinking and eating their food and drinks. Wish us luck.

Victorians. Where am I?

4th Bass Strait crossing this year. Waiting for the aircon to clear the air then unmasking to sleep

🚢 Trip number 4 this year to Victoria begins today from Tas. Highlights will including loving, fun visits to son, his wife & baby while trying to avoid his mystery infection, decent chicken & chips (can't get in Tas), exploring Ballarat, 2 nights on the ship. Driving across Tas is always nice too.

Tasmanians. Looks like the giant contraceptive diaphram in the city's historic precinct is going ahead. Decades will be filled with financial and traffic issues while currently inadequate health services will remain inadequate. The historic precinct will lose its unique quaintness but have fun!

Oh I wonder what could causing this? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Grandbaby is day 9 some virus. Not covid. Started with fever. His parents thought was rotavirus but doctor says likely hand foot mouth. Highly contagious. We see them Fri-Sun. Travelling interstate. Quite stressful. We'll wear masks and gloves inside. Last chance to see them before Feb