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August 14, 2021 / Last updated : August 15, 2021 pirongia Around & about

South day 10

Sent a postcard to Ana. The elder experience, Saturday morning pill sorting. Aspirin to thin blood, clopidogrel to prevent clots, statin for chlorestorol, allupurinol for gout and metoprolol to slow heartbeat. Last sandfly that bit me dropped dead on the spot. The weather looks changeable sunny first thing now a big storm on the horizon. […]

October 15, 2020 / Last updated : October 15, 2020 pirongia Around & about

Puzzles

It started during our 4-week lockdown but now I usually have a jigsaw puzzle on the go most of the time. It’s quite good because I can listen to the news or music or a game show and still do the puzzle. There are masses of them out there and many of them are of […]

May 1, 2020 / Last updated : May 1, 2020 pirongia Daily posts

Lockdown Day 37

Do you think these guys would have got this far if they had been black? That’s a rhetorical question of course, they’d have been shot. Today our neighbours have a covered deck, our turn coming soon:

April 28, 2020 / Last updated : April 28, 2020 pirongia Daily posts

Lockdown Day 34

Thank goodness for Netflix. When did actual TV become so bad that almost no-one can watch it anymore? Twenty minutes of terrible ads to break up 40 minutes of reality shows. OK Survivor was fun at the beginning, a new concept that didn’t suck too badly. You were interested in the people and their problems […]