I've been doing family history, family tree using DNA. Yesterday I found a great great grandmother and grandfather from Sweden who came here to Australia. GG grandfather died walking across a train line in the city of Adelaide.

Little plaster Yacht ⛵ one of my sons made with my assistance back when he was little. He sold lots at a kids market! Memories....

I hurt my knee, I hurt me knee again! 😡😢 as my mother used to say, oh bum!!

Scientists report a nasal immune cocktail protected mice for at least 3 months against SARS-CoV-2, other coronaviruses, and bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus. By activating innate and adaptive immunity together, it created broad antiviral vigilance. www.science.org/content/arti...

I got my DNA results. Some surprises. 13% Scandinavian including 3% Icelandic! Finnish, and 5% Norwegian. Lots of French, English and some Irish. I also found out I had a Swedish great great grandmother but didn't get atleast 1% of her DNA. Under 1% doesn't show in the results) Aunt got 3% Swedish

My grandbaby just started childcare. Two half days week 1 resulted in gastro. 3 days of week two resulted in "a cold type thing" and parent taking time off work. I don't suppose the childcare centre even uses air purifiers. I wish they could afford a nanny 😢

Who’s had the RSV vaccine? I think I’ll have it soon. What were your side effects? If you later got RSV how sick did you get?

Turning my office into a single bedroom so can sell as a three bedroom house. That's a folding camp bed!

Two very quick journal watercolours I did yesterday. Painting is my escape

One of my old paintings (yellow line covers my name)

Had an NDIS support worker come for "meet and greet". Prior requested they not come if they or someone in their household is sick with an infectious type illness. He turns up and tells son his baby is sick with "a normal childhood illness from childcare" & was vomiting all night. Wtf

Good night

My aunty is in ICU interstate (Aus) she lost the use of her legs and severe abdominal pain. She had an undiagnosed spinal hematoma! She survived a long surgery and is doing well and can already walk a bit. Hope she will be ok!

I would like to thank all people who wear a mask in public to protect themselves and others from airborne viruses. There aren't many of us. Were awesome! Every time I see a masker I feel less sense of dystopia and a connection. Look after yourself and others! 😷

Please tell me your best calming habits. I’m in an ongoing complex stressful situation and becoming super overwhelmed. I don’t want talk therapy with a counsellor, that’s not what I need. All ideas on creating calm, acceptance and not getting an overwhelmed brain are welcome!!

Post a tree that you photographed

NEWSFLASH: Everyone needs their lungs, vascular & immune systems, organs, & brain intact to continue making a living, and to continue performing the act of living. We should all be K/N95 masking while demanding clean air at work, school & all public spaces. Govt won’t support you when you can’t work

🏊‍♀️ with my health issues I have to be very carefully to avoid respiratory infections. Before the pandemic I was a swimmer, for 35 years. The presence of Covid has meant I can’t swim indoors and due to outdoor pool closures in Tas our local one is inundated with school groups so I had to stop. Today

"The critical importance of COVID-19 vaccination in older Australians: an evidence-based perspective." "As we continue to navigate the evolving landscape of COVID-19, one reality remains clear: older adults face disproportionately higher risks from this disease."

Lunch today. I love sandwiches 😁. Curried egg. Weak French Earl grey tea (I know, yuk but that's how I like it), Huon River water, green grapes. Life in southern Tasmania 🏔️

I've done my own mask efficacy study of three individuals. One a health worker. One a person living with disabilities. One a person living with chronic illness. They live together and all consistently wear well fitting masks like Aura and Drager. None have had any viruses. Health worker tests often.

Have any of you had the RSV vaccine? What was your experience of it?

Is it just me who's noticed that bought food from cafes or restaurants is now far more salty and full of garlic? Is this the effect of so many people being unable to taste like they did before multiple covid infections? (Proven to impact ability to taste and smell)

Just bought this card for my grandson. So cute. Had to get it because he's a little redhead

It's disconcerting being in the city here in Hobart while water bombers fly over heading to a bushfire near our Huon Valley home and our sweet cat is in our house. Went through the Huon 2019 fire and I suppose that's left some trauma. Will have to keep an eye on the fire news tonight and tomorrow.

Waiting in our city accommodation to get a call to pick up husband from IV sedated dental op. Hoping it's not a call telling me they had to call resus team like last two times. I admit I'm nervous.

Two years ago today my close friend in his 50s died from covid infections induced seizures. Not during the first seizure, but several months after. His initial infection was "mild" apart from the seizures. COVID is not a cold. Its still not a cold.

Banana cake fresh from the oven. Mmm

Someone just told me that carers can have a wonderful time, a great sense of freedom by going shopping at a supermarket. That woman is not a carer. I am. No. A great sense of freedom would be to lie on the beach at a resort or enjoy a gondola ride in Venice like that woman has probably enjoyed.

The Man in the High Castle

Had a lovely day away with husband and son to celebrate husband's birthday. I'm so grateful for him.

Five jobs I've had (apparently all the cool kids are doing this) But I'm not cool. Here goes: Window washer Art Therapist Mental Health case worker Cafe kitchenhand Antiques seller - not in that order

Goodnight!

Splurging on a night away for the three of us for husband's birthday instead of a gift. A gym Airbnb cottage directly by a beach lol. Has a sauna, gym, bikes. Hope he loves it. I might manage a few minutes on a bike and in the sauna then a stroll on the beach. He doesn't know where we're going... ❤️

Goodnight 😘

The worst thing about moving to one of the most beautiful places on earth & nurturing a super cosy beautiful home & growing your own food, by a river, surrounded by mountains, is deciding to leave 😢. But there's a son and a baby grandson across Bass Strait & we all miss each other. Soon we leave Tas

News flash. World warns Trumpire they're sick to death of their nonsense and want them to shut the f up and leave the world and innocent people alone.

Goodnight

Published in Victoria, here in Australia

I'm not an Australia Day kind of person 🦘 🐨 🪃 🖤

🩷 American inlaw aunt just let me know her and uncle are definitely going to be living in Australia from mid year! They've even bought a house. They'll be joining their daughter and her husband and kids. They have had enough of the dystopian debacle over there!

Tasmania certainly knows how to make a cold summers day!

Get your Pfizer LP.8.1 vaccines Aussies www.westernsydney.edu.au/news-centre/...

For Australians concerned about covid prevalence, who like to know when we're in a wave or between waves WA is still testing wastewater and gives some indication for all of Australia imho. www.health.wa.gov.au/articles/n_r...

We're running out of indicators of prevalence in Australia. Glad I've been approved six monthly vaccinations.

Pissed I missed the Aurora last night because of my pain and needing to be in bed. Apparently it was spectacular here. Southern Tasmania. There is NOTHING like being in an Aurora when it's dancing and shape shifting. You know you are in it not just watching it. It literally goes through your body.

I'm so grateful. Paracetamol & diazepam helped me sleep all night without much pain. Woke a few times but that's normal for me. Constant moderate pain wears a person down. Some would call this severe pain but I compare to multi fractured pelvis & pulmonary embolus so my measure is a different

Not feeling too good. TMJ and an OLP flare (erosive oral lichen planus). I felt a mild worsening over a week then BOOM woke up yesterday in agony

Maybe we can buy America and absorb it into the rest of the world. I wonder how much it would cost? I have an aunt and uncle-in-law in Colorado. Nice spot. I wonder if Australia could get that?

Show a tv show that raised you