The Melbourne lockdown is closer to the NZ lockdown, except public transport is still running during the day and there is still mail. Victorians are pretty shocked at the NSW lockdown

Yes! And I keep getting error messages

New Zealand has 4 cases today. One was working in a hospital. It has been confirmed to be the Delta strain

Just looked up what your level 4 is, very similar to Victoria level 4. Melbourne has been at that level for a few weeks and is (words of premier) running beside but not getting ahead of delta .

will be thinking of you hugs three days isn't so long

Nope , our borders are closed

I would be very tempted

Have to say I cried when I saw the headline

The news is reporting a case in the community in New Zealand

There has been spread at the engagement party

They didn’t say. Yesterday Melbourne lockdown was made way more locked down. All playgrounds are closed and you can only exercise with one person from your place of residence. You cannot meet up with someone while out . People cannot leave home to go to work unless they have a permit. On the weekend apparently lots of people decided to have large picnics at playgrounds and parks pretending they were doing exercise . Basically we were told that Vic is on the tipping point of it getting out of hand. That there has to be way way less movement or we will be back to last year.

The Vic chief health person ( cannot remember his correct title) professor Sutton just announced there has been a transmission at an outside playground in Melbourne. There has also been transmission with friends walking outside together ( presumably during the hour of excercise that they are allowed outside)

Now there will be a run on coffee.....🙃 Just nobody start a run on chocolate. I have never been able to build up a stash of chocolate. It calls to me from wherever it is hiding

This My Dd is now 21, I am still vaccuming up glitter from her rug and floorboards from when she was 6

That is beyond awful. I am ashamed.

what does fundy mean? I looked it up and the definition is [ fuhn-dee ] SHOW IPA. / ˈfʌn di / PHONETIC RESPELLING. noun. Bay of, an inlet of the Atlantic in SE Canada, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, having swift tidal currents.

25 + years ago very very common living with someone not married was very uncommon My mum got married in the early 70s at age 16. Here in Australia an unmarried women who had a child in the late 60s and very early 70s would often have the child forcibly removed and put up for adoption. people got married lickity split before the 60s, before readily available contraception, people were considered old maids if they weren't married before 23 delaying marriage until you are well into the thirties is a relatively new thing

congratulations My baby is moving out next weekend. He just got an auto electrical apprenticeship and has to move to go to work. I do have the twins still at home, but it is different. the worry of what my ds would do is gone as he found the apprenticeship all by himself, 🙂

I was married at 18. It didn't seem early. My mum was married at 16, that seemed like an early marriage . It was very common up until a few years ago. Once people just started shacking up together the point of getting married seems to have been lost. now strangely people seem to get married after many years of living with someone- around the time they have kids.

Huge hugs I don't have any advice. My extremely anxious child has more immediate overwhelming anxiety leading to dysregulation. triggered by the slightest thing ( not remembering what a 7 looks like, having to count some manipulatives to find out what 3 +5 is, any thing with food etc). It can be lessened by placing in his hand a sensory toy that involves breathing - blow up balloon car, whistle, a fan to blow, a hovering ball over a wooden pipe thingy - basically anything that he blows, so he has to breath in deep to blow - which will hopefully calm the amygdala . I don't think this is helpful in your situation.

I believe so I think nobody ever in history has been successful in invading and keeping Afghanistan. And over the centuries many countries have tried

I just listened to some Aljazeera they basically said that the retake of so much country has happened so quickly because each provincial area has negotiated a peaceful surrender, and Kabul is in negotiations right now

from the BBC As the US evacuate members of staff from its embassy in Kabul, comparisons are being made with the way the Americans left Vietnam in the final act of the war there. That was another protracted US military campaign which ended in defeat and came to a hasty conclusion in 1975, with the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). The last Americans and many South Vietnamese were evacuated by helicopter from the roof of the US embassy. "Comparisons with Vietnam abound," financial analyst Tim Ash told Reuters news agency, "with that feeling of a Saigon moment and the last US helicopter out.

I haven't looked it to it at all, but the news article I read said there hasn't been much if any resistance. I cannot understand why the consulate staff from so many counties are still there. seems like they should have left yesterday at the latest.

they are in Kabul and moving swiftly inwards from all sides.