Glad everyone is keeping safe.....

I live on Sydney Harbour and catch the ferry to work each morning to Circular Quay where it meets the Circular Quay train station there that heads to the airport and out west.

Every morning I float past the cruise ships that are in port...and when the ferry is late... I have to run up the escalators to to the train to jump quickly into the middle carriages with the swarms of people and their luggage from the cruise ships heading to the airport or home out west.

If the ferry is early... I have time to go past them and head to the first carriage that I usually have to myself.

The last day I went to work before being able to relocate to be working from home was Thurs March 19th.... and to look at the cruise ship I passed in the ferry and filmed... gives me the shivers..... perhaps you've heard of it in the news.... the Ruby Princess....   

I'm grateful the ferry was early that morning....   and I was not crammed in with all those unfortunate people heading home from the cruise... unaware they were on a floating Covid-19 incubation ship.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-ill-fated-journey-of-cruise-ship-the-ruby-princess-20200410-p54iu5.html

I reckon I dodged a bullet...     

...but feel so sorry for the folk on board who were not warned.... there are about 660 Covid cases from the ship and at least 13 deaths and growing... it's been the biggest spreader in Oz.... and so avoidable...   

(from my ferry)

Glad you weren't infected Syd. Stay safe!

You too Tom...     

Well I work with a coworker who made her mask out of a braw. 

Lace ain't gonna cut it....     

we can only hope for her sake it was padded...    

Reminder about masks guys: It won't stop you getting infected, but helps prevent spreading the infection if you have it or are a carrier.

Me n Kitz are still alive   -Things are still pretty normal here in Sweden.

Om man kan kalle Sverige for normal, eller hur?          

On Monday, my mother passed away from complications from the corona virus. Her name is Emma Lou and  she was 90 years old. Apparently one of the employees at the nursing home was asymptomatic and passed the virus among many at the facility which is located in central Florida. What makes it especially sad for us is that mom had just begun to regain her strength from a fall that resulted in a few broken bones. My sister and her family live close by so mom was not alone, thankfully, in her final hours. Mom had a good long life, it just seems so unfair that her life would be snatched away so quickly in this manner. I know she is in heaven now with my dad, and that , makes me smile.

-- Ace --

Sorry for your loss, Ace.

Very sorry to hear of your Mom's passing Ace. May she Rest-in-Peace.

Sorry for your loss, Ace. It doesn't matter how old a person is when he/she passes on as far as I'm concerned. It's always too soon. One of my grandmother passed away in 2006 at the age of 97 and that was still too soon.

I'm worried the same may happen to my 91 year old mom. She fell a couple weeks ago and is in a nursing home at this time. As for as I know, nobody there has tested positive but one never knows. Anyway, Mom is pretty darned weak so it's doubtful she could put up much of a battle against the virus.

My condolences Ace.

My sympathies, Ace.

One small comfort [to me] was that I didn't know of anyone specific that had passed.

Not any more.