I'm a grandfather (again)

New Bailey infant aka Joey

My Australian daughter K has finally produced. It had to be a C-section but both mother and baby girl are fine.  Hitherto we have referred to her as "Joey" and as of yet we have no official name, so you can see the tag merely says BAILEY. We were to visit sometime in May but the coronavirus has put a stop to that.

We are now told to stay at home - except shopping for food or brief exercise but no further than 2km. This we suppose is a radius not total distance. I've had to modify by usual run to comply, and longer weekend excursions are no longer possible.

We are not allowed to visit another dwelling, so we get to see our grandchildren or their parents only occasionally and outside at a suitable distance, which is kind of weird.

Our sub-group in the "courtyard", which is a dwelling joined to but separate from the main house where we are, has three children who leave their bikes and play things in the outside area common to our and their group, so one needs to keep a mental note of what belongs to which group for fear of accidentally touching it.

And yet no-one in any our four sub-groups have virus symptoms so all these precautions are probably technically unnecessary.  We have food and drink, and warmth, and a roof over our heads, for all of this we are very thankful knowing that there are many worldwide that are deprived, for example as in India at the moment.

So far there are oodles of small maintenance jobs on our property to keep me from idleness.

They said these stricter restrictions will be until Easter but it's looking like it might be longer. As to when long haul flights and entry into Australia become possible, who can say?