Today we saw the outline of Level 2 restrictions. We can meet with people outside of our bubble. The key thing is that they be traceable, just in case. Therefore I think I will be able to play tennis again. We will be able to travel outside our regions so can holiday in New Zealand […]

The usual walk. We’ve played eye-spy a lot on our recent walks and we are running out of new things to spy. So Ana had the bright idea of C for Crackly leaves. I mean it’s pretty good in one way but we did have a problem explaining how that wasn’t really fair – using […]

So the deck is all finished and the worker is just cleaning up. Meanwhile I’ve also been busy. To be fair I also ordered materials today to finish the deck with a brick mowing strip and to re-seed the lawn (well, grass). We also went for a 7.5km walk including 10 circuits of the redoubt.

Still struggling on with it. One of the issues I discovered (apart from the picture being put diagonally on the box and running down the sides) is that the picture on the box doesn’t exactly match the puzzle anyway. Nice one. Front deck finished but no picture yet, still needs a good clean with the […]

Was wet today so we fell a bit behind on our 100km in 14 days. Also the puzzle made some minor gains. Sunday, y’know.

We walked around (Lake) Ngaroto in the morning. Plenty of people out and about on a beautiful day. We had a flask of coffee to share at the end. For lunch I prepared kofta with tabouleh from Hello Fresh to an appreciative audience. After an afternoon of binge watching out for the walk to the […]

Oh and those terrible shows about people’s misery in ambulances, car chases, customs checks and poverty pawn. Look someone is worse off than us, let’s go and vote Conservative to really put the boot in. Dinner tonight from Hello Fresh – Hania thought she would try it out and cooked this: