Lockdown Day 26
How lucky are we to have Jacinda as a leader at this time? Watching the senile ramblings of certain other leaders makes me so glad to be here. So we go for another week and then open up a bit.…
Lockdown Day 25
More detail on maybe coming out of Level 4, cabinet to decide tomorrow. Only 9 new cases today and all traced to contacts. Apart for that it was ice creams and wii dance again Who let the chucks out? This…
Lockdown Day 24
Saturday and a little catching up on my latest Coursera course. Then called away to the ice cream shop ($2 ice cream cones, not bad). Some of us tried wii dancing afterwards, luckily I couldn’t photograph myself. We’ve also started…
Lockdown Day 23
Finishing up my accounts today, it’s been a pretty good year so I have some tax to pay. This one is going to be tough: We went for the usualt afternoon walk in somewhat threatening weather but the rain held…
Lockdown Day 22
I’ve been really busy today: We also had time for a walk, Vicky’s chicken wanted to come too. But we didn’t let it in case it stayed out with the goats: Or with funny face (I’m not telling you which…
Lockdown Day 21
Woo hoo, we are into week 4 and hoping that we will move cautiously to open up some more services, particularly online deliveries and services requiring no interaction – eg maybe we can get our grass cut again. Got some…
Lockdown Day 20
End of the third week and life settles into a pattern of sorts. Work in the morning, couple of client tweaks and then some study on Coursera to bring myself up-to-date with the latest on online learning. Not a lot…
Lockdown Day 19
Blast from the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe Easter Monday, a piece of lamb from our neighbours in exchange for free range eggs. Casseroled with apples and turned out well. Also enough left for slow cooking and a good bone for stock. Cranium…
Lockdown Day 18
Easter Sunday, except that we are holding Easter over until tomorrow so Mike can share it with us, he’s worked the past few days on the front line. We have a whole lamb rack of ribs from the neighbours which…
Lockdown Day 17
We slept in today and mooched around the house until lunchtime. Later on Vicky, Ana and I went for a walk and decided to explore Mātakitaki Lane which runs off the main road opposite the Sports and Rugby Club. Mātakitaki…