Please utilise this space to search this blog

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Brisbane (Australia) - This is quarantine

Brisbane (Australia)

03 NOVEMBER - 17 NOVEMBER 2020

Relocating to Brisbane from a state that was 'ravaged' by COVID automatically handed us a mandatory 2-week quarantine period on arrival. This was the punishment we were required to endure and the consequence of coming from a dirty state to one that was clean.

There was no circumventing the process. Mentally we made our own preparations and came to terms with the requirement of spending 1,209,600 seconds in a room of approximately 30m2. They were the rules of the contest. For those that haven't contemplated what quarantine is like, here's a look back on our stay at the 5-star Brisbane Marriott Hotel.

Initial novelty


03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

After a lengthy process at the airport, being herded through the terminal like a bunch of lepers, driven to the hotel and formally signed in, gaining access to your place of residence for the next 14 days was somewhat satisfying. 

In those first hours it felt like the start of any other holiday. A typical hotel room, a nice view and the opportunity to relax. Our view out over the Brisbane river to the Story Bridge was most certainly a highlight, something we all made use of.

03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

It's all rainbows and cheetoh's at this point. You know in yourself that there will be days when the monotony is going to drive you insane but for right now, it was all toast.

03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

The Story Bridge - a heritage listed cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River. It occupied our days, nights and sometimes even our dreams. Many times I looked out to the bars and restaurants on the north bank on the river and wondered what it would be like to be one of those people, sitting there, looking up at these buildings and not having the slightest care in the world regarding COVID or the need to quarantine. We wanted to be those people. We wanted to be the type of people that could drive over the bridge via the Bradfield Highway and not turn back, just keep on driving down to the Gold Coast where our new abode was waiting for us.

03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Inga suggested that I bring a couple bottles of wine for our stay - Inga is very smart woman!

03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

As night fell along the river the bridge would light up in accordance with the mood of the day. Ever changing and ever impressive, our window out on the world held it in centre frame.

03 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 1 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Aiden running riot prior to bath time.

Check out the view

04 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 2 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

This was the view from my office.

Signing on then positioning myself so I could have this view for the day was fantastic. For me being occupied during the day made the whole quarantine experience relatively easy. For Inga & Aiden on the other hand, moments passed by far more slowly.

04 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 2 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Pretty in green, just a standard Wednesday night for the Story Bridge.

Fresh air breaks

07 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 5 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

One of the small allowances we had.

'Fresh air breaks' were offered to all quarantine guests but needed to be booked in advance. Early on in the piece the wait time was literally minutes but as more and more rooms became occupied the wait to get out increased in associated.

We were only allowed to move around the pool and terrace area which occupied a space on Level 4 of the hotel. For most people on their breaks this was their opportunity to exercise. It didn't take long for the 'walkers' to figure our a small loop around the pool, up the length of the terrace and back. In all honesty, the site of masked people doing loops on a 40mtr tracked looked a little mental. 

07 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 5 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

What confounded me slightly is that there was no monitoring or policing of social distancing on the terrace. Every other interaction within the quarantine framework operated at the expected level of social distancing, but, out on the terrace somehow interactions between guests and also the police monitoring numbers on a break and their duration, fell apart.

07 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 5 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

We felt it was important for Aiden to get out as much as possible. Early on in the piece we were able to get him outside (3) times per day but as the numbers in the hotel swelled this became twice a day. Inga would take him out in the morning and I'd take him out after my working day.

Sunday night on the river

08 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 6 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Not sure of the reason but there was a welcome fireworks display at the end of our first weekend.

08 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 6 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

I can only assume that for an active toddler needing to occupy your time in one room with limited option for play was fairly brutal.

08 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 6 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Thankfully we had access to the ABC Kids channel, so The Wiggles, Sesame Street, Thomas the Tank Engine, GoJetters, in fact anything that moderately resembled a cartoon was right in our wheelhouse for producing an engaged and calm boy.

I can do everything you can

09 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 7 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Aiden was proving a point, pretty much showing me that he could 'do it all'. Here he is getting started on my morning emails, watching Bananas in Pyjamas and acting like a toddler boss.

We're still alive

10 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 8 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Sending greetings out into the world. 

I think this is the point where we see our own 'turn' in the acceptance of what quarantine is doing to us. Once you start sending messages out into the World and creating tasks that are not common place in the everyday is the exact point in time when the four walls around you start to win the contest.

Starting to break

11 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 9 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Policy was that on Day 10 everyone staying in quarantine was required to have a COVID test, post test however it was a requirement that the remaining time spent was all indoors, no fresh air breaks at all. In preparation for that we took to turning our room inside out and created fun 'rollie' things to do.....😂

11 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 9 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

You got a bed...then you got a ramp

If you have a ramp then the sky is the limit to the amount of fun you can have (apparently).


When your mental fragility is displayed for all to see

13 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 11 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

This is our first full day of lockdown...in quarantine lockdown

What else are you going to do with a box from Dan Murphy's?

What now?

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

I think this may have been our most difficult day. 

You're entirely confined to the small space, you're not able to step outside for any fresh air, you're still a couple of days away from freedom and time ticks buy in a painfully slow way.

Our bed ramp was set up for Aiden to get his 'roll on', or to 'jump on' or burrow through. So here's what our room looked like for a large part of that afternoon.

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Bed ramp, cartoons and tent in the corner. It looks more like a child care centre than anything else.

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Two whole days from freedom...C'mon! Lets just get there!

Aiden was the last to crack

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

When your son starts walking around with the waste paper basket as protective armour, well then you know that quarantine had well and truly cracked us all.

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Instigating a ramp roll with Aiden's pal, the Lion

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Ramp roll in motion - both Aiden and the Lion are holding on for dear life

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Once the bed roll became less amusing then it was into tunnel crawling. I'm sure Aiden was thinking why I was completing the tunnel circuit so slowly.

14 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 12 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Waste paper bin carnage

15 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 13 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Bubbles for days, a great way to occupy 15 mins during the morning

15 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 13 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

Bubbles...bubbles...and more of the same


15 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 13 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

15 November 2020 - Quarantine Day 13 - Brisbane Marriott Hotel - Queensland - Australia

The view never got old but our time in the one room certainly caused some frustration.

With all of that, let me say thank you to the Marriott, they were always willing to assist, were impeccable with delivery of meals and the room was exactly as expected.

A necessary state, not particularly enjoyable but it was comfortable and I guess that's all you can ask for when you're in quarantine.


Sunday, November 1, 2020

Melbourne (Australia) - Locked out - the pandemic special - COVID-19 recap

Melbourne (Australia)

20 March - 01 November 2020

In a way COVID-19 has given us all a break from our respective realities, or perhaps more fittingly, what we thought our reality was. These days it appears that there really isn't a 'normal' and there's not a piece of the puzzle that we can see that fits the image we were carefully crafting. Our vernacular has morphed too. It now encompasses all elements of what the pandemic enforced upon us. We've been surrounded by terms such as unprecedented, new-normal, social distancing, lockdown, curfew, sanitising, R number, flattening the curve, second wave, third wave, border restrictions, transmission rate.

Mind you, the year would have been oddball even without the 'Wuhan virus'. 

First, fires ripped through the eastern part of Australia from October 2019 all the way into March 2020. With devastating consequences to all communities down the coastline, day turned into night,  ash hazes engulfed our major cities, fauna was decimated and sadly, lives were lost.

Most recently we've had the pleasure of experience floods in both South-East QLD & North-Eastern NSW. A combination of La Nina and climate change has impacted our coastline and again brought to our attention just how fragile and insignificant we can be when it comes to mother nature

In the US, Donald Trump became the third President to be impeached. He totally ignored the Black Lives Matter  movement and then literally said, regarding the election, 'I'll only accept the outcome of the election if I win, if I don't, then the result will be a sham, a fraud perpetrated on the American people by a corrupt and criminal Democratic Party'.  I think we're all still waiting to get our head around the temerity, or perhaps the plain churlish and boorish display of the Commander in Chief of the free world!  LOL - when you say that out aloud it sounds as ludicrous as it reads.

But of course, the star of the year was COVID-19. It occupied our every waking hour, and the waking hours of those that took over our shifts, for months. Nightly news simply became a summarised version of daily COVID-19 topics. Our weekend rituals of catching up with mates, having a drink and catching a game were all blunted, and then culled by an insidious virus whose ability to jump from one host to the next was 'unprecedented'.

For this reason I wanted to capture my own snapshots of 2020. A year where holidaying at home was enforced, where working form home was required and when going out for a simple walk was was restricted to a radius of 5kms from your place of residence.

Here's to a wacky 2020!

21 March 2020 - Riga International airport - Riga - Latvia

With lots of worry, extended phone calls, ridiculous sums paid for airfares, Inga's family made it back to Latvia, via a stop in Istanbul. Here's their photo of the international airport. It's the scene you'd imagine yourself seeing from those that had survived the apocalypse. Check-in desks empty, the departure hall devoid of life. It's almost absurd.

22 March 2020 - Southbank - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Sunday morning in Melbourne, this was out new normal. It felt like I was living out my own personal scene from Vanilla Sky.

27 March 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Happy 1st birthday to Aiden Robert Elisher!

For him COVID-19 was about cake, presents, parents being at home and endless amounts of attention.

27 March 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Aiden's 1st birthday - Are you getting an Elmo theme vibe?

At this point I don't even think he knew who or what Elmo was. Roll forward 6 months and there's cries of 'Noooooo' as soon as the Sesame Street channel needs to take its evening hiatus.

30 March 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Milestones and celebrations went indoors. Inga's birthday became a dine-in event and something that we needed to become accustomed to in the months that followed. The first few months were a sort of novelty and not nearly as brutal as when the second wave hit Melbourne, but that's a lockdown tale that I'll mention a little later.

30 March 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Celebrating indoors.

31 March 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

The fragility of the 'mental state' is on full display here. This is still very early on in the piece and we're already conjuring up moments of 'hilarity'??? 

10 April 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - looking down Flinders Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

This is what a Friday night now looked like. Empty streets, totally surreal.


19 April 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Another Sunday morning indoors. This became a favourite place to look down at the trains, count carriages, count the number of Uber Eats riders and marvel at the lack of traffic on the Kings Way.



19 April 2020 - Middle Park Beach - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

When the sun came out then most people would head out. I think Melbourne generally had a problem with social distancing, like it wasn't in their DNA or something. We'd be bombarded daily with health messages regarding the 1.5mtrs rule, sanitising, staying at home if you were feeling unwell, etc.,  but out on the beach it people simply felt as though they were immune to real world events.

25 April 2020 - Duckboard Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Inga and I started a little Saturday evening tradition. It would involve buying a few steaks from the Hereford Beefstouw, who were acting as our local butcher, and then picking up a few takeaway cocktails from Romeo Lane on Bourke St. It gave us (me) something to look forward to during the week, especially when working from home meant that the only days I'd really leave the house were on Saturdays to pick up our evening feast and on Sundays when I took Aiden out for a walk.


25 April 2020 - Duckboard Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

17 May 2020 - Fitzroy Gardens - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Certainly one of my favourite parts of the week, even more so on the days when Melbourne managed to turn on the weather. This day was a good one, and with that said, Fitzroy Gardens has to be one of the best inner city parks of any capital city in Australia.


17 May 2020 - Fitzroy Gardens - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

17 May 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

All washed and clean, almost ready for the nightly ritual of trying to put an active baby to bed. Not one of the best parts of the day! Sometimes he hits the bed and its like the rebel in him just wants to riot. He'll do everything in his power to keep that body of his from hibernating...but there's one thing I know that I have over him for right now, I have adult staying power, which means I can outlast the will of a toddler (I think).

20 May 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Another morning at the window, another day of spotting trains and picking up movement and signs of life on the streets.

23 May 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Yet another Saturday night in, but at least this was entertaining. Powderfinger reuniting for their 'One Night Lonely' event.  Somewhat shorter than anticipated, five songs in total, but hell, Powderfinger in lockdown was just the tonic that we needed.

26 May 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Sunday morning looking down Flinders Street. Of course there were days like this when I was in the midst of doing assignments and the whole office/view set up was an almost pleasurable experience. 

Playground - Birrarung Mar - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Many of the walks with Aiden would end up in the playground on the north side of the Yarra, relatively close to Fed Square. It's a cliche to say that 'My enjoyment comes from seeing his enjoyment' but hey, why not live in the truth of that cliche for a while longer.

08 June 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

02 July 2020 - On the road to the Yarra Valley - Victoria

Between bouts of lockdown somehow the easing of restrictions coincided with our anniversary and my birthday. The timing was perfect! It allowed us to get outside of Melbourne for a few days and celebrate accordingly.


02 July 2020 - Four Pillars Gin Distillery - Healesville - Yarra Valley - Victoria - Australia

The best gin in Australia, without question....and it was calling me in for a birthday Negroni!

Domaine Chandon Winery - 727 Maroondah Highway - Coldstream - Victoria - Australia

Birthday bubbles and frolicking on the grounds of Domaine Chandon. I'll take that in the 'new normal'.

Domaine Chandon Winery - 727 Maroondah Highway - Coldstream - Victoria - Australia

Domaine Chandon Winery - 727 Maroondah Highway - Coldstream - Victoria - Australia

How happy is that 45th birthday!!!

Considering the way of the world it was slightly out of the ordinary.

25 July 2020 - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Mandatory mask wearing came into effect during the month of July. Another odd experience in this year of unprecedented occurrences. Not only were we asked to stay within 5kms of our places of residence but now we were all accomplices in the latest Melbourne bank robberies.

25 July 2020 - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

When Melbourne turns on the weather you feel like you've picked up a small win at the TAB. Those are the days when you say out aloud, 'Melbourne, if only you were like this more often...I could love you forever'. The only active participants in this photo were Inga and Aiden, on the banks of the Yarra looking for ducks, I assume.

25 July 2020 - Flinders Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

No traffic, no pedestrians and only red lights.
COVID-19 wear, masks in sleek, slimming black.

25 July 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Saturday afternoon, getting everything together for our steak night ritual. The empty streets had us wondering what the hell everyone else was actually doing.

26 July 2020 - Fitzroy Gardens - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

A typical COVID-19 photo coming out of the COVID epicentre of Australia.

Mandated and masked. Dan spoke, we listed and had to implement.

08 August 2020 - Flinders Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

I had to take these photos. Although now common place, I knew there would come a time in the not too distant future when shots such these would simply amaze us.



08 August 2020 - Bourke Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Bourke Street on a Saturday afternoon, a ghost town waiting for its new owners to come in and take over.

08 August 2020 - Romeo Lane Bar - 1A Crossley Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Our Saturday night saviour. The takeaway cocktails from Romeo Lane gave us that little pep in our weekly off-beat step. I actually enjoyed turning up to the relatively nondescript entrance, knocking on the door and pretending that this was some type of clandestine exchange in the era of prohibition. I was also surprised that on each occasion I was met by a person not wearing a mask, like they were somehow playing along with the fantasy in my mind.

13 August 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria  - Australia

There were nights when the lack of movement on the streets was truly a sight worth capturing.


15 August 2020 - Birrarung Mar - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Simple pleasures. Taking a stroll along the river on a Saturday afternoon became a favourite pastime.

16 August 2020 - Birrarung Mar - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Just hanging out, kicking around a ball, watching the trains, enjoying the sun and having some time with my son. There are moments that will always stick out in your mind.

16 August 2020 - Batman Avenue - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Tranquil, peaceful and somewhat disturbing. A Sunday afternoon with not a vehicle or a person in sight. At this point Melbourne was being hammered by the pandemic. By mid-August we'd either just hit, or just come off our highest daily infection rate in terms of new case numbers. New restrictions were being placed on us each day and the economy was on life support.


16 August 2020 - Birrarung Mar - Yarra River - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Along the banks of the Yarra. Aiden and I had the place to ourselves.

22 August 2020 - Hoisier Lane - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

I found myself walking past the 'never deserted' Hoisier Lane, only to find that I was the only person in the frame. Of course the rain had an impact but there you have it, person free.

22 August 2020 - Hoisier Lane - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

22 August 2020 - Hoisier Lane - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

29 August 2020 - Flinders Street Station - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

The deafening sound of an empty vessel.

29 August 2020 - Flinders Street Station - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

It use to be when someone said, 'I'll meet you on the stairs of Flinders St Station', that you would still think, 'How the hell will I see them amongst that crowd?'.

Guess what?

I found you.

30 August 2020 - Flinders Street Station - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Sunday afternoon on Flinders Street.

30 August 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Somewhere about this time Aiden's obsession with pans started. Of course the impetus for the pan fetish was sparked by our Saturday evening steak night, but now he was taking his pans to 'another level'.

08 September 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Sometime during the month of August Inga & I made the decision to relocate. At that time the restrictions in Melbourne had no foreseeable end. The hospitality industry had been totally decimated and for Inga that meant that there was simply no available. Our tenants in Surfers Paradise were coming to the end of their lease and it just felt like the perfect time to make the move to a state where COVID was just a dirty word that described  the goings on south of the border.

12 September 2020 - Queen Street - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Empty trams on the way to Queen Victoria markets. This became part of my Saturday ritual after the Hereford Beefstouw shut their doors. I'd head to the markets and pick up our steaks for the evening. Again, this was something I really enjoyed doing. It got me out of the apartment for that one-time per week and I didn't have the hassle of having to squeeze into a crowded space.

26 September 2020 - Birrarung Marr - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

One of my favourite photos. Not for the composition or quality of photo but just because of what it represented to us. Living on Flinders Street one of Aiden's favourite things to do was watch the trains go by and mimic their sounds. These stairs, looking out onto the railway line and over to the MCG was where we would head to on a Sunday afternoon in order to watch the trains and the trams, wave at them both, and hopefully get one of them to blow their horns for us. 

26 September 2020 - Birrarung Marr playground - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

A Saturday afternoon at the playground.



26 September 2020 - Birrarung Marr playground - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

COVID friendly interactions whilst on the swings.

26 September 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

A beautiful display over the Yarra. On days like this you could almost forgive everything.

27 September 2020 - Birrarung Marr - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Enjoying Sunday afternoon with my favourite person in the whole world!

11 October 2020 - Birrarung Marr - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Sunday afternoon playground capers. 

This was fun weekend. I'd just finished a major assignment and was procrastinating the need to start my final major assignment for the year. Sunday afternoons like these were way more enjoyable than thinking about Cybersecurity Risk Management.

2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria -  Australia

During COVID the Breslin Bar & Grill in Southbank turned into a mini-market on Saturdays and Sundays. After I'd venture to Queen Victoria markets in order to pick up our steaks for a Saturday night, I'd head down to the Breslin in to pick up a Saturday night tipple. In all honesty, the Black truffle Negroni was my least favourite of what they had on offer but still, Saturday night drinks soooo good!

 
17 October 2020 - Docklands Park - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

You can't take the Rock Star out of the boy!

30 October 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

'Where are we going again?' - 'I don't care, I just like boxes!'

30 October 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

This is the Melbourne sign that we purchased from Electric Confetti, (a fantastic neon sign shop in Brighton who produced it for us, they also do custom designs).This sign was specifically designed for our Melbourne apartment, and that's where it will stay. 

Personally, I would have really wanted to stay in Melbourne myself,  and certainly we tried, but COVID-19 had other plans for us and the real estate prices in the suburbs we wanted to be in had pushed us out of those markets. Of course COVID brought those prices back down but by that time our decision had been made. So it was 'Adios'

Thank you Melbourne! You were more than we imagined, and you gave us much more than we ever expected.


31 October 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Our last Saturday evening in Katherine Place - Steak Nights 'R' Us



31 October 2020 - Fitzroy Gardens - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Last time in the gardens too.

01 November 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

Aiden doing the final bit of cleaning prior to us heading north for two weeks of quarantine in sunny Brisbane.

01 November 2020 - 2110/7 Katherine Place - Melbourne - Victoria - Australia

I have to say an absolutely 'massive' thank you to my fabulous wife!

As I'd been in the midst of trying to complete my final assignment, and work, she was the one that dismantled, packed and boxed absolutely everything. It was an enormous task and she did it all on her own!!!