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My name is King, and I am a new host here. This is actually my first time. I would like to ask if it is possible to link my W...
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May I wish all my fellow hosts and guests, positive vibes across this important period in many of our lives. A time when so many would normally travel to celebrate Easter or Passover with family and friends. For our agnostic or atheist members, these wishes are also for you....
We may be feeling many emotions such as anxiety, anger, loneliness, frustration and especially grief. Grief on so many levels.....
However, unlike other generations, with
So my wish to all of you is: “Stay safe, stay positive and stay connected.”
We’re all in this together......
It's the little things that make this whole situation surreal.
Ade and I like to sit outside and have a wine or two when the sun gets to about that point on the horizon and suddenly.....there are no planes, no vapor trails across the sky, almost no vehicles on the road. Human activity has virtually stopped, the silence is almost palpable!
Even the masses of sulphur crested cockatoos seem to have gone north as we sit in our eerie twilight zone.
But Cathie, things are looking positive, the hard yards over the past month do seem to be paying off.
Last night Australia passed a really defining line in the sand .....we have more recovered cases than active cases......
Although China and Iran claim to have passed that milestone I don't know how much credence we can place in their statistics....China seems to have stopped reporting a few weeks ago and, Iran..... who knows there.
But South Korea's statistics I do believe, and apart from small island communities Australia and South Korea appear to be the only countries that have passed that milestone! We are maybe a week or two away from getting right on top of this. It is to be hoped that we don't let our guard down. Already some authorities are saying South Australia should relax its restrictions as a social experiment....see what happens. I hope we don't do that, at least not until we have some way of fighting this bug!
But Cathie there is a good chance Australia may get out of this with less than 100 total deaths...and that would make all these hard yards so worthwhile!
Thanks for your lovely posts Cathie, stay safe and give my best to Garry.
Cheers.....Rob
Stay safe. Everything will be fine.
Thanks @Cathie19, I hope you had a peaceful weekend and were able to speak with your family over video call lots of times. The view of the beach is very beautiful–just looking at it brings calm.
I marked the occasion by baking a banana bread with some very ripe bananas. I was missing a couple of the ingredients, so I just added different things in. It was meant to have honey in it, but I didn't have any–so I rummaged in the cupboard and found some nice Canadian syrup which my Canadian friend brought around to cook with at end of last year. Plus, it was meant to have lemon juice in it, but I'm finding it very hard to find lemons, so I used limes and dark sugar instead of light. All together, it was delicious and the hardest part is resisting the temptation to eat the whole thing. I think baking a banana break on Easter Sunday may become a bit of tradition. : )
I hope everyone was able to find a little bit of time to relax this weekend and you are all doing ok.
Lizzie
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Sunday’s efforts. 2 x banana loves with lemon icing and 2 x date and walnut loaves.
I cut in half and freeze them, leaving a half of each out for commission! Lol.
