Another exausting 45minutes of Divine Right, up to move eighteen, I can sense a three-way nil scoring draw approaching!

Would prefer the old men in utes to go away and stop their hard-rubbish scavenging, or at least DRIVE ON THE LEFT. Idiot old buggers kerb crawling up the wrong way so they can check out all the dumped rubbish from the driver’s window looking for good buts

Overcast, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 59%, Wind 5m/s from NNE - by Klimat.app

Plum blossom season. Well that’s embarrassing, I missed Kashmira street. Hughesdale streets full of zig-zagging kerb-crawling hard rubbish scavengers in utes and vans

Clear, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 62%, Wind 1m/s from S - by Klimat.app

Butcherbirds[1] east and west of us are having a shouting match, first time I've heard them for a while

an hour well spent; uncovered the brick path in the front lawn from encroaching couch grass

A bit of laneway lovin’ – combination of cobbles, concrete, grass, mud and art gallery

Partly Cloudy, 13°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 86%, Wind 5m/s from SE - by Klimat.app

Another hour of game play, we've now finished turn twelve of the "Divine Right" #boardgame and I suspect it'll be a threeway nil draw at turn twenty

Definite drizzle. Shopping; fish, chicken & the weekend bread

Possible Drizzle, 10°C, Feels like 7°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 5m/s from ESE - by Klimat.app

Another hour and two more turns of the TSR "Divine Right" #boardgame

Ow ow ow. ITB says no

Unenthused.

Partly Cloudy, 11°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 4m/s from S - by Klimat.app

2020/0806/1208 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

Over the six weeks from [2020-08-01 Sat] to [2020-09-12 Sat], what birds can I see while in “COVID-19, Stage 4 lockdown” at home. Restricted to one exercise outing per day, 5km range, 1 hour maximum.

Stage 4 lockdown was extended, so I extended my isobirding…

…until [2020-10-18 Sun] which was our last day restricted to five kilometres.

Grand total; 46 species (as of 2020-10-28 Wed).

Amusingly, within days of the lockdown ending I saw a first for me, a couple of Royal Spoonbill in the Huntingdale wetlands.

2020/0805/1659 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

2020/0805/1637 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"

Mostly Cloudy, 10°C, Feels like 10°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 5m/s from SW — by Klimat.app

May have to knock the tip off that triangle next time

Possible Light Rain, 10°C, Feels like 7°C, Humidity 51%, Wind 7m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app

Morning mug of tea in the garden, a strange noise, I look up. There's a duck perched on a chimney, calling loudly. #chimneyduck

A mentally exausting 75 minutes of "Divine Right", we're finished turn 8 of 20

Less than 5km from home. Tick. Less than an hour. Tick.

Out for my daily ride; far far fewer people out and about today. Much the same percentage with no masks, err, “exercising” or wearing them “nose free” or as chin-bandages or carrying them around their neck as goodluck charms

Overcast, 14°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 56%, Wind 4m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app

Covid-19 "disaster curfew", traffic noise dwindles to nothing, unnaturally quiet as I got into bed

a warm day and the street tree starts blossoming, the hyacinth opens

A bit of the heights of Chadstone, then Scotchmans creek path, newish bike path down through Monash Uni to Clayton, connecting with Djerring trail and back home

I think the message is finally sinking in, almost all the shoppers in Oakleigh have masks… except for the smokers, the coffee drinkers and the sitting around talkers.

I wonder where the local butcherbird has gone[1]? Haven't heard them for a while. This week's birds are the Brown thornbills in the bay tree

Colouring in the backstreets, explore the new “Caulfield Village”, straight back along the traffic sewer. Found a lovely bit of bluestone, some aparments incorporating a rebuilt concrete laneway, and a lane that I knew of but never suspected went all the way through

Around 50% of the people in the park and bike path either have no mask or wear it as a chin sling, I’ll stick to riding on the local road.

Fark, that was close! Nearly taken out by 30km/hr electric scooter on Scotchman ck trail… idiot had a big dog running with him … 3m to the side, head-on at me, on one of those invisible extender leads. Slid to a halt with front wheel wrapped in dog & lead

camellias are flowering, and the wattlebirds[1] keep landing on them for a feed

pulsing stabbing ITB twinges all weekend, something is all wrong with how I'm riding

2020/0725/2349 – "ajft, we've made it easy to get back on Instagram"