The first month of Summer. Weather patterns have undergone radical changes over the past five years or so. Increasingly summer has brought higher temperatures - sometimes breaking records a day at a time - and bushfires which are commonplace here in Australia were intensely magnified during the 2019-2020 bushfire season which burnt 18 million hectares (including wildlife) covering 72,000 square miles, destroying 3,000 homes and killing at least 34 people. At one point in time more than six States of Australia were reeling from ferocious bushfires.
That same 2019-2020 bushfire season saw the arrival of a new Pandemic which was named Covid-19. This pandemic was incredibly unusual in that it appeared almost in every country around the world at precisely the same time. There is conjecture as to where it may have started, but the fact is it contiues to spread its tentacles throughout our planet, mutating almost at will.
As the heading of this blog says: it is a blog of humble jottings of a woman growing older, and in many cases will be personal observations of daily life, learning to live with a virus that defies complete and scientific understanding (at present that is!!!), yet eager to embrace a new life-style while building upon new friendships.
So keep tuned.
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