Blog Day 26: Saturday 18 April 2020

Trivia last night was hosted by Andrew and Katie and they did a marvelous job using technology to present the questions but to also recreate the atmosphere of trivia night at the Elsternwick Hotel (the Wick), it was almost like being there, without the sticky carpet.

A tense game filled with pathos, drama and humour ensured which resulted in a draw between team Phillips (Roger, Penny and Jo) and team Me.  The result was obtained by a nearest the pin playoff which after some tense toing and froing was one by yours truly.  

This Zoom thing is marvelous piece of kit.  Last night for trivia we had the following attendees;

Andrew and Katie - Burwood
Jo - Hawthorn
Ben - Coburg
Shane - Sydney
Roger and Penny - Cairns
Me - Bentleigh East

And joining us after the quiz for a chat was Katie's parents Kathy and Mac from Deland in Florida in the good ol US of A.

I wonder how people caught up during the Spanish Flu pandemic 100 years ago filled in their time.  Maybe they communicated with their next door neighbours by way of Milo tins connected with a long piece of string.

The only downside of winning the trivia quiz is that I have to produce the questions for next week.

I have been for my walk this morning and can report all secure to the west.  Last night at about midnight the police helicopter was circling this area for quite some time, probably at least 20 minutes, I wonder what they were looking for. Maybe some miscreants holding an illicit gathering.  Usually when the police helicopter hovers around here it means that the pub has been robbed, not much use robbing it at the moment, it hasn't been open for a few weeks.

When I went for my walk I was reminded of those lovely autumn days years ago when the good folk in Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs would sweep the leaves on their footpaths and nature strips into a pile in the gutter and set fire to them.  The streets of Camberwell in autumn always had the delightful smoky smell of burning leaves.  This practice ceased rather suddenly when a Camberwell council street sweeping truck swept up a bunch of burning leaves and said vehicle was burnt to the ground.

Current Virus Stats Day 103

Vic: 1,319 infected (+17 from previous day) - 14 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 6,553 infected (+38 from previous day) - 67 deaths (increase 4)
Recovered: 3,808 (Australian newspaper)
World: 2,240,768









Comments

  1. Lyn18 April 2020 at 16:57

    Sorry but Milo (tins) wasn't around before 1934 according to Wikipedia. We used them but they were never as good a reception as raspberry jam tins.

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  2. Lady Penelope19 April 2020 at 17:25

    I think you should check you spelling of the word won. Just a heads up before the English Grammar master reads the blogg 😘😘😘

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    1. Graeme20 April 2020 at 11:24

      Well done Lady P being the first to see my deliberate grammatical error.

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  3. Lee_O21 April 2020 at 18:03

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  4. Lee_O21 April 2020 at 18:04

    *Ensued

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