Bingo – photographed today
I’ve been awfully slack on the blogging front, but truth to tell, there has not been much to write about.
With Covid 19 still being a big factor in our lives, there is limited opportunity to do something different or go on outings that do not involve shopping for provisions.
It being winter, a surprisingly mild one at that, the horse racing is not that interesting, but there’s not long to wait for the Spring racing season to start. Of course Covid restrictions may stymie actual attendance, but hopefully I will get to witness the big races of the Spring Carnival.
I’m looking forward to finally being fully vaccinated in 10 days, which will ease some of the anxiety attendant on any kind of outing, as has been the case over the last year and a half.
The photo above is of Bingo who is thankfully in good health this year, after giving us a scare the last two winters by losing his appetite in early July of both years.
There’s nothing wrong with his appetite this year – he is ravenous – so we worry about him becoming overweight instead.
On the time killing front, I’ve not been doing much mostly replaying the Monkey Island games and reading the odd book. I’m mostly uninspired by the new literature available at present, but have recently enjoyed Ronan Hession’s (of Leonard and Hungry Paul fame) new novel Panenka, which I thought quite as good and as heart warming as the earlier novel. Ronan Hession is a brilliant writer that I’m delighted to have discovered.
Once fully vaccinated I intend to go and soak up some culture, by attending the French Impressionists Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Treasures of the Natural World at Melbourne Museum.
In the meantime I will continue my winter hibernation.
2 comments:
Nice to hear from you Anne. I am fully vaccinated, as of just over three weeks now, and it's a good feeling, though I would have preferred to have had Pfizer!
We have had such little COVID here in Canberra that we've been going to concerts, exhibitions, cinema etc, for a long time, but it has impacted getting out of Canberra easily. We have come to Melbourne twice, but with heart in mouth. Last trip was just as your last lockdown was finishing. We nearly had to cancel but phew, we made it. And then, nearly had trouble getting home via NSW because theirs was starting!!
Such is life. Keep playing games I reckon!
Good to hear from you too Mrs Gums.
Fortunately I have not been tempted to go interstate or even to country Victoria, but understand the uncertainty of traveling to and from another State. Lucky you managed to avoid such complications.
We certainly live in interesting, though it's mostly dull, times.
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