Dark Times in Bentleigh East

Blog Day 631 - Friday 31 December 2021 - Day 62 of Covid Nearly Normal New Year's Eve New year's eve and heading for 38 degrees outdoors. As seems to be the custom at the end of the year I will review the happenings of the year, the funny, the sad and the ridiculous. This is the end of our second year of the corona virus and similar to 2020 we have undergone the usual rang of lockdowns, curfews, border closures - both international and national, interruptions to sporting & cultural events, business closures, school closures and severe restrictions on individual movement in metropolitan Melbourne and the state. This year was a little different as we patiently waited to get our first virus vaccination and then our second and then our third.  The vaccinations were to be the game changer that we have all been waiting for.  The jury is still out on whether this has been the case or not. Nationally we have achieved a double vaccination rate of 90.3% of the eligible population an...

  Blog Day 629 - Wednesday 29 December 2021 - Day 60 of Covid Nearly Normal After returning from my well earned break and looking forward to settling in for a couple of days of intriguing test cricket, guess what happens?  The Aussies beat the poms in two days and a morning session by one innings and a hundred and something runs. Having shellacked the poms in three tests of a five test series this means that we retain the ashes and the last two tests are pretty much a dead rubber although the Australians will be playing for a complete whitewash of the series and the English chaps will trying to salvage a bit of pride and to ensure that they don't have their MBE's removed on return to the Old Dart.  They are luck, in the olden days they would have lost their heads. Talking about wheels falling off it looks like the wheels have fallen off the Victorian covid testing program.  In the last 24 hours Victoria received the results of only 75,000 tests and NSW received 158,0...