12. I used to love telling people that I lived in a World Biosphere Reserve. The town’s slogan was ‘Victoria’s Best Kept Secret’ Ha-bloody ha.

13. Life Does Go On.🐓
Our chooks keep laying, we wake once more to birdsong, there are even small joys when a blackened rosebush thrusts a bloom of the purest soft pink skyward. Getting out of bed each morning to face the million and one jobs/messages/calls for help is getting harder but I know that I can’t, won’t lie there and let it beat me. So I push my sore, tired aching body upright, drag on the not-as-dirty clothes and find my husband, already up and outside, silently embrace each other and go on with our day.