A potpourri

 A quick potpourri...

If you're in Perth and wondering what the heck these Blackhawks are doing flying around like maniacs, it's this https://www.army.gov.au/our-news/army-exercises-alerts/australian-defence-force-counter-terrorism-training-western-australia-mid-late-november-2020 .

I've tried 3 terrific board games in real life cardboard recently - Fossilis, Transatlantic and the new Cleopatra and the Society of Architects. All very fine plays. Transatlantic is available for everyone to play for free on yucata.de .

Fossilis and CSSA were kickstarters and particularly beautiful in their production. The rules adjustments on CSSA make for a sleeker play, and Fossilis, pushing rock, clay and sand around and rummaging in pits with tweezers to obtain enough of the right sorts of bones to reconstruct the prehistoric creatures is just plain fun, with some nasty push people off the dig twists which can be left out or put in depending on audience.

We had a very nice gluten free high tea down at the newly renamed Zoie Cafe (was Cocolat) on Sunday morning in Scarborough. We've been doing plenty of merswimming down at the Scarborough pool - much better now they've gone to summer hours, closing at 9:00pm so we don't have to compete with the squads for space.

Nyoongar language class has broken up for the year so we'll be doing some revision at home. South Australia, I hope things get nailed down quick for you. We're all wishing you the very best in speedily dealing with this particular fast and spreadable mutation!

The coronagarden has done its dash with the amazing kept-on-giving broccoli and cauliflower and now they've been cleared away for some heirloom cherry tomatoes and herbs, particularly basil.

Paris the Hamburg bantam is still with us and is her usual self. I'm still enjoying contributing to iNaturalist Australia, and will get back to my backlog of all the digital photos of lifeforms I have. We've had the pruners in and  the garden is looking pretty ready for late Kambarang and Birak bonar.

I have some birthday celebrations coming up, the first of which is The Princess Bride rooftop cinema coming up, which will be very cool. Hopefully this SA coronavirus won't get to us here but just in case I'm going to make the most of every swim, of every outing, because we never know when we too, might be plunged into sudden lock down.

Sanitise often, stay 1.5 metres away and wear a mask if you can't maintain that distance. And stay strong South Australia, if a late to the party Victoria can do it, you can too!