Duncan, I'll show that picture to my wife when she comes home on Saturday' Two cases in Inverell where she is nursing but, thankfully, both are home isolated and not requiring hospital help, although the hospital has set up a couple of isolation rooms. Two cases also in Glen Innes, I don't know thei...

We are now limited to meetngs/groups/ whatever of only two people; what can two people do?

Hmmm!

Went to the local Coles supermarket this morn and was met at the entrance by a young lady who asked me if I was familiar with the new rules. Negative; so she told me that I had to keep 1.5 metres distant from other customers and that I must use a basket or a trolley. I complied and put the wrapped b...

The Western Australian Government has closed all gun shops, firearms repairers etc, apparently even one-man operations. A gunsmith working at home can't serve a customer, for health reasons, but he can invite him into the kitchen for a cuppa or a beer. The WA Govt recently lost a few cases against s...

The latest up here is that all non-essential meetings of more than a few people are banned, 5 people for weddings and ten for funerals and consequently, our SSAA branch annual general for next weekend is cancelled as also will be the pistol shoot on Sunday. The island state, Tasmania has also closed...

There was a post on Australian Hunting Net to the effect that the virus had jumped species,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,a politician had tested positive

We're doing all the right things, especially hygiene. I'm even boiling the water when I make tea. On a serious note though, the Federal and State Governments are doing the right things and non-essential services, Government and private are shutting and, for the first time ever, State Borders are bei...

I was at a public hospital today where my wife nurses and in the Public Toilet some real brain has decided that the spare toilet rolls, which are left on top of the cubicle partitions (for convenience in the convenience :) ) should be glued in place. How this would stop theft is a mystery but what i...

There was a post about school days on another forum and I got to thinking about mine, mostly good memories and then I remembered one of my most embarrassing moments. When I started school one of my teachers was Sr. Mary Loretto of the Sisters of Charity, she was a wonderful person and a friend of my...

In the local Pharmacy that I give my custom to there is a sign on the counter that says that customers will be restricted to "one item only". I asked if they really meant it, assured that they did, I said: "What if I want Aspro and Shaving Cream?" "That's OK" "But that's two items" "No, what it mean...