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The Australian Ballet is offering free cinema-quality full-length perform­ances. Click here

Zoos SA are offering live streams — check out what the animals are up to! Click here

Citizen science: contribute to coronavirus research without leaving the house. Click here

The STREAM solution can help to ensure mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 crisis. Click here

Andrew Lloyd Webber is releasing a full-length, smash-hit musical each week for free! Click here

World-class museums and galleries offering virtual tours and online collec­tions. Click here

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Stay upbeat and active. Gardening can help us turn this situation into a positive. Sow seeds or plant seedlings and watch them bloom over the coming weeks and months.
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Zoom Cheese & drinks

Internet/computing, Practical

by Helen Bills

Our wine and cheese party last night via Zoom was great fun.

We are using Zoom to have virtual gath­er­ings with family and friends two or three days a week. You can also use Skype or FaceTime (Apple) in the same way.

In the interests of social distan­cing we exchanged cheese, half bottles of wine and cake via an esky at our front door so we both had the same food and wine and could discuss just as we would at a face to face gathering. No driving home required so the wine flowed freely, bubbles, white wine then red wine then stagger!
Roger and Helen Bills and their drinking pals. 

The ZOOM app is free. If it’s 1 on 1 (which our party was) then time is unlimited, 3 — 100 parti­cipants you have 40 minutes. 

I down­loaded the FREE app, ZOOM Cloud Meetings,  from the Apple App Store onto my mini iPad. Then I opened and followed the prompts. I’m sure there is an android equi­valent. You can also get an app on a computer, with a bigger screen.

If you use a laptop, put it on a few books so the camera doesn’t look up your nose!

There are a lot of tutorials on YouTube, but if you try it out with friends it is not hard to work out. A phone call can sort it out if necessary.