I don't know what to say about today's figures, except to reinforce how important it is to stay the course, to properly lockdown into a life that nobody wants but all of us will have to agree to if this is going to work. Look out for each other and please stay home. #COVID19Vic

On that -- here all the ways I am trying to find diversions for me and those I live with:
-- One bike ride a day, well away from others through Melbourne's beautiful parks.
-- Hilarious and cheap three-ingredient recipes: see @abcmelbourne and thanks @RyanSheales
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-- Watching every @StudioGhibli movie ever made with my eight year old: Ponyo is my new icon and inspiration.
-- Bingeing Halt and Catch Fire after the kid is in bed: the unveiling of the Apple McIntosh moved me to tears that I still don't understand
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-- Defending the emerging silverbeet in the veggie garden from marauding snails;
-- Re-reading my favourite books because I just can't concentrate on the new ones;
-- Starting a Pokemon jigsaw with the kids, who promptly abandons me, leaving me to it piece together on my own.

I'll take any other suggestions you have. The weekends are long, and when this all seems so lonely. Send a wave and blow a kiss to each other, wherever you are. This is a helluva fight -- we have to be equal to it.

Oh, and Lydia Wilson as Eve in ‘Flack’ is a key reason that life has a purpose right now. If ever we needed a take-no-prisoners, sexy as hell, scene-stealer right now ...