I remember my dad talking about how when he went to Australia as a young man he'd met a man who had a sheep farm that was bigger than the whole of England, it was a staggering fact to take in.  And the whole of Australia had only a fraction of the number of people we had in London.

and the States close their borders at a drop of a hat.  The state premiers are very keen to stop the spread out into regional areas, we are in full lockdown even with zero cases and it is like that across the state and we are pretty much most of us are happy about that even when their businesses are going broke they'd rather not get sick.  

At last today there is a drop in the number of new cases in NSW.  I guess it is possible we will survive this Delta wave of infection without any cases in my locality.

Byron Shire is really under threat though.  When Melbourne went through the big lockdowns we got a big influx of refugees from there and now I can only imagine there is going to be a massive influx from Sydney.

If I was a bit younger and stronger I would be planning to move more remote before the next strain comes through.  As it is I seem to be more intent on making a nice place to nest in.  My deep lockdown project is building a raised garden bed to grow spinach in.  it involves digging up and moving things including lots of bricks and is much too hard for me but I am getting there bit by bit, it's very exciting.