Coming up in under an hour, WikiTree Day: Midnight Madness part of #2024WikiTreeWeek @AncestryRoads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh6b-O11EzE&list=PLEqK4ICkQWXT66wnFSHdEEHdh6uiYP95v

I reckon we have it right in Australia (except for the recent local elections).
Elections need to be a festive occasion; On a Saturday, you visit your local Primary School, buy a sausage for yourself and throw the How-To-Vote cards in the bin.
https://rants.au/@BinChicken/113426799170147469

🇦🇺 Australia: Covid still our most lethal respiratory virus

"Covid remains our biggest acute respiratory killer, being implicated in 4056 deaths this year to August, compared with 851 for flu and 380 for respiratory syncytial virus."

Source: https://archive.md/UL1zP

@auscovid19

🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 28 October to 3 November 2024

🔹New cases: 1,248 (+40.3%)
🔹Reinfections: 826 (66.1%)
🔹Deaths: 12 (+71.4%)
🔹Total deaths: 4,461 (+12)
🔹Hospital: 77 (-27.3%)
🔹ICU: n/a

🔸66.1% were reinfections

Sadly, 26 deaths being reported today:

🔸COVID-attributed deaths: 12
🔸Not COVID: 7
🔸Not available: 0

3 were in their 40s
4 were in their 60s
10 were in their 70s
3 were in their 80s
6 were aged over 90

Of these people, 10 were women and 16 were men.

#COVID19NZ @auscovid19

Source: https://tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-professionals/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases

Blowing an American friend’s mind with the concept of compulsory voting. I am not going to bother with explaining full preferential voting, an independent electoral commission or using pencils.

Tailed leek orchids (Prasophyllum appendiculatum) in heathland, Croajingolong NP, VIC. Regarded as endangered in VIC (rare in NSW) and often only seen after fires. But good numbers out this spring at this location with colour variations ranging from green/brown to darker purple flowers.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #LeekOrchids

Bees love my bottlebrush and my first strawberries have ripened.

Three native hens come up my drive and scare away 12 magpies singing their hearts out.

Hope everyone has their lights off to celebrate Earth Hour tonight.

Beautiful musk parrot on my bottlebrush. Often attacked by noisy miners but he holds his ground on the bottlebrush.

Not much room for walking on the beach this morning, waves rolling up into the dune area.

Wow, two weeks since I last wrote here. Keeping up with all my steps is taking more time out of my day. But I am feeling better from doing it.