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The may have married in COVID-19-enforced isolation but that didn't stop on groom from presenting his bride with an epic wedding day surprise.
Former Australian Olympian Dimity Douglas wed her American beau Douglas Boyd at her mother's home in the ACT. There were just five people present but ... what Dimity didn't know was that Doug had arranged to share the special day in an appropriately socially distant manner.
Friends in their cars drank champagne, some dressed up in black-tie, and watched the wedding livestreamed to their phones and laptops via Zoom. They beeped their horns, flew balloons out the window and held posters, congratulating the couple on their "new normal wedding". Gifts were left afterwards at the letterbox.
There are more beautifully joyous photos right here.
While you were commemorating our servicemen and women in your driveway on Anzac Day, there was a special dawn ceremony of sorts on the NSW South Coast.
Mabulo, the zebra, gave birth to a healthy baby girl, surrounded by her herd at Mogo Wildlife Park.
And you'll love the name Mogo Wildlife Park's director Chad Staples settled on. Find out here.
Imagine for a moment you're a small business owner doing your best to keep afloat during COVID-19.
You open your businesses front door and find a note inside - with a bundle of $50.
This is the beautiful act of generosity which presented itself to Melbourne cafe owner, Pierre Patole. Read about it here.
He fell so deeply in love with her that he decided to pop the question just a week after they met while working together at an engineering firm in Brisbane.
"She said 'you haven't known me long enough' and made me wait one more week to get engaged and then we married three months later," Mr Chalmers said.
And now the couple have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.
After four fraught months of living hand-to-bottled-water, Uralla residents now have something to celebrate.
Town water has been declared safe to drink.
Uralla Shire Council Mayor Michael Pearce today advised the 'Do Not Drink' alert for the water supply is lifted, as toxic arsenic levels drop to safe.
The glass is still half-full, even though water restrictions will remain at Level 5 until further notice.
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