Keep up the fantastic work and your wonderful community spirit.

My wife, Karen Pinder, started a similar project and it has helped a lot of people.

It is in these difficult times that the true caring nature of special people like Tyson and Karen shines through.

Dear all you white-line fever runners (you know who you are).

I pledge not to jog out my pathetic forty-minute 5k; walk my dog; stroll with my pram or toddlers or elderly parents or wheel-chair bound friends on your designated athletics track.

But only if you refrain from trying to break the four-minute mile in a dead straight line in our shared, public open spaces.

Do we have a deal? I'm sure we'd all be safer and happier.

The encounter was (depressingly) instructive.

Came across a long time neighbour of mine, stooped over, pushing a walking frame around the side streets of my suburb. I have known him for roughly 20 years.

Initiated a conversation with him only to be with the comment "Do you live around here"?

He had no idea as to who I was, despite the longevity of our association and the fact that I lived less than 100 meters from him.

Dementia was obviously kicking in - with a vengeance. My heart went out to him.

I would be less than honest if I did not say that I experienced a twinge of "self pity". As he sadly represents the future for many of us.

Where, if we live long enough, we are staring down the barrel at the sometimes less than tender mercies of a nursing home from which so many horror stories are emerging.

Seeing the line up of cars waiting to go through to be tested for COVID-19, I am wondering if it would be feasible to move the testing to the Showgrounds.

There are pavilions there with doors at both ends. Possibly this would allow more people at time to be tested.

They could enter by the back gate and on arrival be given a plastic pocket with a document containing the necessary information needed, to be filled out by the occupants of the vehicles as they wait their turn, this may save some time. Just a thought.

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