I am hopeful of learning helpful things from her but no longer really entertain the idea of getting vaccinated - I haven't even finished relating my history and they are already saying no to vaccination.

But yes to bridge!  I have been touched at the way people are responding, like we still have common ground - not having the vaccine is scary and having the vaccine is scary too.

I am one of a team of four playing in a regional bridge tournament next week, it's okay tho, that will be it, we can comfortably expect not to win, we are all playing for the fun of it.  

My partner is an indomitable 89 year old, he's just wise enough to sit back and enjoy the way I play these days.  

It doesn't look like it's long now until people start travelling up the coast from Sydney and also there's talk about our international borders being opened to the double vaccinated.  I'm going to be ducking for cover, at least for a while.

Fortunately my long laid plans for staying home are now underway - lap pool with heated magnesium salts water.  I am hoping it will look like a perched lake under the sky.  For the moment it's this gorgeous hole in the earth I am awestruck at the skills and hard work that's gone into it so far - it's all formed up with the steelwork and ready for the cement pour.

Fascinating to discover these people, with their bulldozers and steel share the same love for rocks earth and clay that I do.  And they dug me up some tubs of clay.  

I found it exciting years ago when I found clay down the coast but here where I live - it means all the more.  I'm slaking and sieving it.  Feels good, very elastic.  really not sure how colour will go til I fire it.  mainly white clay from the flow of the underground spring and there's a little bit of iron oxide attached to the shale, I have a bucket where there is lots of iron crusting onto the clay.