What are you reading?
Content materials on the new topics for this year's new courses in mathematics for senior school. SMH when I can find the time.
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What are you watching?
Mostly ABC news, Insiders and Q&A.
What music are you listening to?
Courtesy of Spotify Everything I can find from the '60s and '70s.
What are you cooking?
Basic meals, soups, casseroles, roasts. I am also supplying meals as stated for a certain neighbour (a lady of 70 plus) each week.
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- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with Simon Murray
- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with Courtney Baldwin
- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with Anna Evdokimova
- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with John Malouff
- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with Mary McMillan
- The COVID-19 lockdown: what are you up to? Q & A with Scot Macdonald
- Q&A with Armidale Express editor Laurie Bullock
How are you staying fit, both physically and mentally?
Cycling when I am able. Walking to my son's shop to buy groceries (40 minutes return). Trying not to listen to the "hogwash" being espoused by some politicians re: safety of people returning to school too early, particularly teachers like me who are unable to visit my grandchildren but are told it is OK to teach classes of other people's grandchildren because it is safe for them.
What's the one thing keeping you sane?
The knowledge that no matter how bad I think we have it, there are many millions of people in this world that have it far more worse, and really life in Oz is really pretty good.
What's something positive you've witnessed or experienced since the coronavirus hit?
My grandchildren, and children, have let me know how much they miss me and just as the crises commenced, literally days before social distancing commenced, my newest granddaughter was born. Life persists!
What have you learned about yourself amid the crisis?
My blood pressure whilst at school is 20mm higher than when I am on holiday. It is time for me to retire so I may spend more time with my own grandchildren.
What's your advice for others to cope with the crisis?
Try to be positive and think when, some time in the future, you may look back on this and realise that you got through it.
- Dave Dorrian is a maths teacher at PLC.
