MIDWINTER

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and also part of the Seasons meme

INNER SUBURBIA

Johnston St looking east in Abbotsford. One of the older Melbourne suburbs, typical working class in the 19th century. Abbotsford now has a mix of industrial architecture and green spaces, and is popular with both families and creative types. Converted factories, hip cafes and cool bars line Johnston Street, while Abbotsford Convent hosts artsy workshops and is home to markets, cafes and artists’ studios.

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REFLECTION

A corner on one of the busiest thoroughfares in Melbourne, Hoddle St that becomes Punt Rd, further South. Reflected in the glass is the Collingwood Housing Commission Building built 1971. There are 47 of these template designed steel framed concrete towers consisting of pre-cast slabs covered in exposed aggregate, some as tall as 20 to 30 storeys, which were constructed across inner Melbourne during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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IN THE CITY

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DRIVING IN THE CITY

You know you're in Melbourne if you're driving on the left side of the road and you do hook right hand turns, watching to avoid trams! Oh, and it's Spring in October!

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RAINY DAY

This post is part of the Roentare’s Water Meme

and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme

and also part of the Nature Notes meme

SKYLINE

Southbank skyline viewed from the suburban train line overbridge.

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SOUTHBANK

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and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme.

DETRAFFICKED

Weekday, time of the afternoon peak hour traffic. Huh? Where are all the cars? You say. Well, this is COVID lockdown normal for Melbourne. Today we had a release of a "Roadmap out of the COVID Lockdown". It was a bit of a joke, as painfully it has confirmed lockdown will stay and most industries will be shut or highly restricted until the end of October, in a bid to prevent our health system from being overrun by COVID-19... 

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ACCIDENT !

I don't know if it's just my impression, but I think now with all the successive lockdowns, I've become aware of more accidents of all kinds occurring. The other night we were disturbed by a bang outside and going out we saw that a car accident had happened up our street. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, but the cars were a bit of a mess.

Lockdown fatigue has been described worldwide as a state of exhaustion caused by the long-term effects of COVID-19 and the changes it has caused to every aspect of your life. It is a state experienced when people have had to come to terms with a virus that has affected their life, including their freedom, and which has continued for months, sometimes with no end in sight until vaccination has become widespread or an effective treatment is in wide use.

If you are feeling demotivated, sluggish or exhausted despite potentially having more downtime due to a disrupted routine, you could well be suffering from lockdown fatigue. If your nerves are on edge, if you feel jittery, if you get into more arguments, behave in uncharacteristic ways, yes, you guessed it, you could have lockdown fatigue. No surprise then of news of more accidents, more affrays, more crimes...

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