This morning I did my face-to-face ethics class at the school – the second lesson of cause & effect and determinism. The kids seem to be enjoying the topic and it’s making them think, but today they were a bit chatty and many times erupted into talking over one another, rather than a nice orderly one-at-a-time speaking. This sort of thing always seems to happen when the weather is windy, as it has been for the past two days. Very windy indeed. All the teachers say the same thing – the kids get rowdier when the weather is windy, I wonder if there’s any real connection there.
Back home I did a 5k run. I wanted to get that out of the way for November on a relatively cool day, before it gets too hot.
This evening I had three online classes on this new topic of ageing. I started to feel a bit off this afternoon, with my nose running like a tap and frequent sneezing I’ve blown my nose through almost a whole box of tissues. I really feel like I’m coming down with a bad head cold. I’m not fevery or coughing, so hopefully it’s not COVID. I’ll keep an eye on it tomorrow.
Before I go, a couple of photos of birds I took in the last few days with my phone. An Australia brushturkey, sitting in a tree:
And an Australian king-parrot. This is a juvenile, without any of the orange-red plumage of the adults. And yes, I’m as close as this looks – I got the phone to within about 30 cm of the parrot. These guys are pretty tame around here.
New content today:
Here in the States, COVID antigen tests are free (8 per month covered by all insurance plans). I’m sure they are not very expensive there. Take one, please.
And feel better.
To add: you must get tested, because if you’re positive YOU NEED TO WARN THAT CLASS.
I just did a test: negative. I actually feel fine this morning. I took an antihistamine tablet, and not a problem so far all day. I’m thinking now it was just a bad bout of hay fever. (Being spring here.)
Glad you’re feeling better. That last reply might have been Freudian projection, because I caught COVID in the UK back in March, and flew home while symptomatic. I was *sure* I didn’t have COVID, because Boots had done a pre-flight test on me and it came back negative. I felt pretty guilty.