Back to warm, sunny days again 19 degrees today, 21 forecast tomorrow… Antony is pretty excited that we can likely play golf again from Tuesday.. and the weather looks good! We haven’t heard for sure when our course will open, but next week it’s likely. I probably can’t hold a club yet as I’m still recovering from my hand injury… but I might go out anyway to keep Ants company, get some fresh air and help him locate his ball. We can only play […]
Day 29
A cloudy day! That makes news…. it’s a first in ages. I had to put the heat pump on during the day which I haven’t needed to do most of lock-down. I didn’t even venture outdoors today. I did get a high intensity interval training session done first thing but the rest of the day was very stationary! The day was a busy one on the computer with a couple of zoom calls for both jobs. I had a zoom call with Māori students […]
Day 28
Zoom zoom zoom… Was part of 4 zoom calls today! First three with classes – year 4, 5 and 7, then later hosting a call for timebankers from around Canterbury. Was great to see the students again but a little dismaying to discover that none of them had seen the videos I’d made for them yet! So I shared my screen to show them where the videos were – hopefully some of them may look at them now. I loved the theme for the […]
Day 27
Another seriously lovely day… incredible how many sunny days we’ve had in a row… anyone counting? It’s been weeks! I got so into puzzle sorting mode last night it was almost midnight before I got to bed… then up at 6.30 this morning… so was very sleepy this afternoon! I was on the local radio this morning about 7.20 talking about the Meditation Panel I’m facilitating tonight… I’ll be back on the radio at 8.45 on Friday talking crafternoons and garden Q & As. […]
Day 26
After feeling like the days have just been disappearing so fast I decided to get up when I woke up this morning and exercise then, instead of pottering about waiting til the 9am Les Mills class on TV. It was also Body Balance this morning which I did yesterday so I felt like a different workout. So I was up before 7 and into the Les Mills online ballet workout. Then I did a thorough clean of the bathroom including shower, cleaned the microwave, […]
Day 25 – Quiz time
The first Zoom Quiz I’ve been involved in went pretty well! We had 25 people in 7 teams and managed to get through the set up, 7 rounds of questions and answers and results in 2 hours… bit longer than planned but good fun. As the Quiz Master I emailed everyone a PDF with the questions each round – discovering only after it was all over that Antony didn’t get them… he’d been missed off the list but didn’t mention it to me til […]
Day 24
Bit of an Asian theme to the last couple of meals… Last night I made bibimbap – a typical Korean dish with rice, vegetables, a Korean chilli sauce and an egg. It is a great vegetarian option so I ordered this a lot in Korea! If you order dolsot-bibimbap (bibimbap served in a hot pot) at a restaurant, they usually break a raw egg over the vegetables and it cooks in the heat of the dish… but I fry my egg first and place […]
Day 23
Last night I video chatted with friends in Dunedin and then my host parents in Denmark. Then we got on zoom and set up Ticket to Ride and played with my parents who are in isolation in Naseby. Lots of fun 🙂 Yay for technology that makes it so easy to connect these days! It doesn’t seem THAT long ago that I was living overseas before email was invented… writing and receiving letters in the post! Such a different world, in a relatively short […]
Day 22 – TimeBank
So I was in the paper yesterday – well a skinnier, pre-lockdown version of me was anyway! I spoke with Guardian reporter Susan Sandys last week about what the Timebank is up to… and she must have found this photo in their archives from a few years ago! Some readers will recognise the bright green shelves. The article is probably too small to read but at least you can see the title- which is our slogan at Mid Canterbury TimeBank. Even though the usual […]
Day 21 -Home Learning TV
Term 2 began today and as I shared yesterday I have made some videos for my students, to review te reo Māori work we’ve done so far this year. I wonder if any of the students have seen them yet! As I don’t have my own class I didn’t have any zoom calls with anyone today… So I did what any responsible teacher would do and researched the Ministry of Education’s offerings on Home Learning/ Papa kāinga TV! After my body balance class on […]