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Well, Carpe Diem came to a bit of a halt for me after Wednesday’s Child but I did carry on with the little fic started for Monday’s Child and there are some echoes of the rest of the rhyme in there if you look closely enough. It also fitted with the what_if  Challenge #22 Steampunk, so it was nice to include it there as well. The completed fic, is uploaded to AO3: The Race

In other matters, lockdown persists in other states, which means our borders are closed and therefore no family visits since Easter. But on a good note, daughter and grandsons will be coming back here to live permanently (hopefully) at the end of the year. I’m quite excited about that and keeping fingers crossed that everything goes through smoothly for their relocation. Right now with all our restrictions and lockdowns travel between the states is limited and rather fraught with regulations, so 'going smoothly' is not a given!

Other than that life is pretty much normal. The weather is typically spring – nice warm days interspersed with cold, wet and windy ones. I started doing Pilates some months ago and really feel some benefit from it, the old bones and muscles seem to be working a bit better anyway:)

Easter, when the grandsons were here, we went to Gorge Wildlife Park and of course there a photos.

We’re in lockdown again, the Delta variant has escaped into the community *sigh*.  

Grateful that we don’t have the same horrible statistics of other countries but with the government’s lackadaisical attitude (‘we’re not in a race’ – hate to tell you this PM, but we are) to the vaccine rollout we’re looking at possible lockdowns for at least the rest of this year.

So it’s stay at home for everyone until at least next week, not that it affects me too much as I’m retired so have no urgent reason for going out, even did some grocery shopping yesterday thereby managing to miss the usual frantic panic buying that precedes a lockdown. The grocery shops are staying open people – there’s no need to stockpile toilet rolls …

There had been a vague sort of plan? hope? maybe? that we could go to see daughter and the grandsons for youngest grandson’s birthday at the beginning of August (where the hell has the year gone??), but that’s been firmly knocked on the head. They’re in lockdown, we’re in lockdown and never the twain shall meet so to speak.

And it’s cold and wet here right now so not much fun. Walked to the park this morning and the effects of the storms that came through last night were everywhere  – branches down all over the park and almost the entire top half of a large tree was ripped off a few streets away.  If we walk tomorrow I’ll take some photos.

Writing: hey, I’ve actually started a fic, got 300 words done over the last week or so, just dabbling with an idea so not sure it’s going to go anywhere, but at least it was writing. I’ve looked at some original work that’s been sitting on my hard drives for years too, but that’s all, just looked;)

I’ve been sorting photos so will get to posting some of the ones I took on our last trip to Victoria soon - expect yet another pic-spam in the not too distant future.

It’s awhile since I did an update, not that much has been happening. We had plans for trips to see grandchildren, but of course they didn’t happen due to the closure of all state borders at one time or another. Daughter and grandsons were going to come to us in September, but again … closed borders because of a second wave in Victoria – just as things were looking quite good too.

Anywho, it’s now been 15 months since we saw the boys and 14 months since we saw our granddaughter. But! Borders have now opened and there is a planned family Christmas here with at least one daughter and grandsons. I’m not getting too overly excited – been there, done that before (damn COVID) but I’m sorting out the house in preparation, which is quite a lot of work as it has got very messy over the last twelve months or so, and getting the back in order. So, at least things will look a bit more shipshape whatever happens.

On another note, progress has been made on my Lewis fic, especially in the last month thanks to ushobwri  and the November writing challenge MiFuNoSo. It pushed things along and I’m near the end now, hopefully finishing off by early new year, which I'm sure will please my auction bidders. They have been very patient.

Other than that, photo taking has been my usual standby occupation and here’s a few from the last couple of months, this first batch taken on walks in the park over spring.

It feels like such a long time since I last posted, before the world changed and everything went crazy.

The family incapacity/ill health continues but hubby seems to be gradually recovering from his radiotherapy treatment and improving bit by bit, so I’ll count that as a win and hope it continues.

There were plans for Easter this year, daughter and grandsons were to visit for a week, but of course it didn’t happen as all our state borders closed and no one is going anywhere! So disappointed, but everyone is in the same boat so I shouldn’t complain. We now have big plans for Christmas …

So, I did put my hand up for the fandomforoz charity auction and actually got some bids. The upshot is that I now have until December to finish a half-completed Lewis fic forkat_lair, who conspired withmoth2fic for the winning bid. With the ups and downs of my life recently I’ve needed a push to try and get back into some writing, so thanks guys for supplying the push! And thank you to ci5mates who also put in a bid.

We’re heading into winter at this end of the world, I’ve been staying in as much as possible of course, especially with hubby being ill, but I’ve been venturing out a bit more lately, taking the dog for a walk, even going as far as the park - have to have some exercise right? And staying in was starting to make me stir crazy. Took my camera with me the other day.

Stay safe everyone and look after yourselves.