Milestones (Amy's diary)
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Your wish, madam, is my command!I need a photo of Pumpkin to cheer me up!
(Now, can I post it?)
Ha! I think I managed to! i.e. post it.
I'll try a second view...
No, I think I've lost that one! Bother! - but I have heaps to do, so I'll leave this pleasant play. When I'm in isolation, or if I have chance, before then, I'll make up for the lost pumpkin pic by posting the herb tub, which comes with what I think are three charming cranse, and a stork. (No, of course not real ones! How big do you think this tub is?)
I'll try a second view...
No, I think I've lost that one! Bother! - but I have heaps to do, so I'll leave this pleasant play. When I'm in isolation, or if I have chance, before then, I'll make up for the lost pumpkin pic by posting the herb tub, which comes with what I think are three charming cranse, and a stork.
(No, of course not real ones! How big do you think this tub is?)Thanks for your good wishes, all - as you see, they decided not to wait and have given me short notice to finish up doing everything that must be done.
Going out via Sydney airport, which I really don't like, b/c I think they're pretty slack over there about precautions, but I'll just have to keep my head down and my hands very soapy-clean.
Going out via Sydney airport, which I really don't like, b/c I think they're pretty slack over there about precautions, but I'll just have to keep my head down and my hands very soapy-clean.
We'll certainly try. 
alligatorob
Respected Member
Hope you get back to Austrailia well, happy, and soon!
Like the pictures, a good pumpkin is hard to leave, hopefully it will be adopted by a deserving family.
Like the pictures, a good pumpkin is hard to leave, hopefully it will be adopted by a deserving family.
Hello, everyone. Back in Australia - bit of a messy journey, with I think not one leg of it going according to plan, but nothing unhappy until Sydney, where the total lack of health precautions at immigration was pretty devastating. I'm now bunkered down for a couple of weeks isolation-for-two. The world outside is still beautiful. Did everyone see the moon two nights ago, just after sunset? and Venus - both so lovely.
Back in Australia - bit of a messy journey, with I think not one leg of it going according to plan, but nothing unhappy until Sydney, where the total lack of health precautions at immigration was pretty devastating. I'm now bunkered down for a couple of weeks isolation-for-two. The world outside is still beautiful. Did everyone see the moon two nights ago, just after sunset? and Venus - both so lovely.
Cate
Long term member
Glad you're home safely, Amy. It is a disgrace how our government pretends to be so tough (disgustingly inhumane with refugees) & then totally ignore all the guidelines. They are playing with our lives. It's scary. G & I have decided to be safe in our home, no matter what the regulations. Stay safe, Amy xo
alligatorob
Respected Member
Welcome home Amy (can I say that if you home is 10,000 miles from mine?). I hope you get the whole isolation thing set up comfortably and then get settled back in. Good to have you back.
Petal001
New member
Welcome back Amy I have been thinking of you on your travels . I hear so many stories about Irish people stuck in airports where flights are cancelled ,being detained in Singapore etc it's scary stuff so glad you made it ok . Rest up and look forward to hearing about how isolation is going
Thank you, everyone! It's really cheering to open up the site and find all these welcomes back!
@LaMa and @Cate and @liza - yes, terrible about the poor/absent precautions - nobody reading temperatures, nobody asking serious questions, no masks (or only on those disembarking from the planes). And a few days before we got back, a whole infected cruise-ship's worth of passengers was released to meander across the whole country... I think things have kicked up a notch since then, but (for example) nobody's bothered to check that I'm keeping strict isolation - which I am.
Yes, Rob, I'm so comfortable and well-equipped that I'm almost ashamed, knowing how horribly hard people are doing it elsewhere. (India. )
I shared out all the extra hand sanitiser and so on I brought back with me with people who didn't have any, starting with the taxi driver, poor man, who was using just ordinary tissues to hold the suitcases with - he said that masks were simply not available.
It'd make you weep, if you let your mind dwell on it for long - the needs, and the people at risk.
Moongazing - oh, yes, Liza! The sky, the tree outside the window... there is so much beauty - oh, and an Australian magpie sang! Have I said before that this is the most beautiful birdsong in the world (to me)?
The journey home has its share of cancellations and mild anxieties, Petal, but nothing major. I feel very much for those stuck halfway home - not in the overseas place which they already know, but in a halfway place where they know nobody, and where (perhaps) their own country's consulate has closed for the duration, and where resources - shelter, food, water - might already be scarce. Countries are starting to get themselves into gear, sending evacuation planes - but there's the problem of getting to the airports, too.
I said it'd make us weep, if we let our minds dwell on the terrible aspects. Of course we want to understand, accept and deal with the reality, but the beauty and the loveliness of human kindness is as real as the sadness. So here's an isolated fragmented orchestra sharing with us all what they can give best - I daresay you've all seen it already, but here it is again anyway!
(My next post will be much more upbeat - with pictures of my herb-tub!)
It's really cheering to open up the site and find all these welcomes back!@LaMa and @Cate and @liza - yes, terrible about the poor/absent precautions - nobody reading temperatures, nobody asking serious questions, no masks (or only on those disembarking from the planes). And a few days before we got back, a whole infected cruise-ship's worth of passengers was released to meander across the whole country... I think things have kicked up a notch since then, but (for example) nobody's bothered to check that I'm keeping strict isolation - which I am.
Yes, Rob, I'm so comfortable and well-equipped that I'm almost ashamed, knowing how horribly hard people are doing it elsewhere. (India.
) I shared out all the extra hand sanitiser and so on I brought back with me with people who didn't have any, starting with the taxi driver, poor man, who was using just ordinary tissues to hold the suitcases with - he said that masks were simply not available.
It'd make you weep, if you let your mind dwell on it for long - the needs, and the people at risk.
Moongazing - oh, yes, Liza! The sky, the tree outside the window... there is so much beauty - oh, and an Australian magpie sang! Have I said before that this is the most beautiful birdsong in the world (to me)?
The journey home has its share of cancellations and mild anxieties, Petal, but nothing major. I feel very much for those stuck halfway home - not in the overseas place which they already know, but in a halfway place where they know nobody, and where (perhaps) their own country's consulate has closed for the duration, and where resources - shelter, food, water - might already be scarce. Countries are starting to get themselves into gear, sending evacuation planes - but there's the problem of getting to the airports, too.
I said it'd make us weep, if we let our minds dwell on the terrible aspects. Of course we want to understand, accept and deal with the reality, but the beauty and the loveliness of human kindness is as real as the sadness. So here's an isolated fragmented orchestra sharing with us all what they can give best - I daresay you've all seen it already, but here it is again anyway!
(My next post will be much more upbeat - with pictures of my herb-tub!)
Thank you for sharing that lovely video Amy--i hadn't seen it before--beautiful.
Also had to google the Australian magpie to hear him--so lovely and cute!
Yes it's so tough when we think of what so much of humanity goes through and all the creatures of the earth really. It's truly an invitation to remember to be kind to each other and to treat each other well.
Also had to google the Australian magpie to hear him--so lovely and cute!
Yes it's so tough when we think of what so much of humanity goes through and all the creatures of the earth really. It's truly an invitation to remember to be kind to each other and to treat each other well.
alligatorob
Respected Member
Hey Amy, have to say again its great to have you back, you make this a better place. I also enjoyed the video and had not seen it before.
I thought this one sounded pretty upbeat. Looking forward to the pictures.