So having written food posts on Sunday and yesterday, I didn’t write what we got up to on those days. Sunday I spent a few hours binge watching ‘The Resident’ while cracking lots of walnuts! I enjoyed a lovely video call with my brother and his adorable girls in Wellington. Then I made some videos for te reo Māori teaching that starts this week. It’s not something all the kids will necessarily do, so I don’t want to teach anything new… just giving ways […]
Day 19 FOOD- Part 2
So yesterday I did the big Food Part 1 post, mostly focused on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Today we carry on with Part 2… this time focusing on snacks, treats and drinks. I’m more of a savoury girl than a sweet one, so more often than not would opt for popcorn, pea flour crackers or walnut crackers over anything sweet. Sometimes even a fork full of kimchi! Proper Crisps have a couple of their chip flavours in home compostable packaging so on the odd, […]
Day 18 – FOOD Part 1
I love food… growing it, preparing, cooking and most of all eating it! I’ve already blogged about my marrow/ zucchini abundance and how I cooked and baked with it … but here is a dedicated lockdown FOOD post. Being vegetarian with a preference for a dairy free, wheat free diet and zero waste… some people have a hard time imagining what it is I actually eat! I can assure you I eat well and often. 🙂 Here’s a run down of some staples/ usual […]
Day 17 – Reflection
I didn’t sleep that well last night waking up several times and dreaming lots in between. One dream was about a school student and I going to the movies together but we were running around trying to find the entrance to the movie and we were late. Our seats were also special flying ones so while watching the movie you flew around on these special seats. Sounds fun hey? Not so much fun was being tired today thanks to disrupted sleep and still having […]
Day 16 – Transformation
It’s Friday – Good Friday – and what a good day it was – a really stunning sunny day from beginning to end! It says it was 21 degrees but it felt hotter than that to me… Given it was a public holiday, Antony and I had a break from our work and spent the day emptying, cleaning and rearranging the entire garage and the garden shed. Not as fun as being with our friends on the Crown Range which is where we were […]
Day 15
Another day, another photo… in a wedding dress with a golf club on the lawn! The things I do for the TimeBank! Our week 3 lockdown challenge is to post a photo where you ‘Dress Up’. 🙂 You should see the other coordinator’s photo! We like to make people smile. Not up to writing much today… it was another beautiful sunny day! Body combat was great then I did some TimeBank work – things coming together but still plenty to do. Had a School […]
Day 14 – Pear special
What another gorgeous morning weather wise – so lovely and warm in the sun and in my sunny kitchen! I didn’t feel like doing any exercise today – would have been the first day in lockdown without doing a workout. I said to Antony I didn’t feel like working out and he replied, just do it anyway. Am so pleased I followed his advice! Body balance was great 🙂 I spent some time this morning collecting all the pears from the ground under the […]
Day 13 – Health
Good focused work day today, able to tick off a few of the to dos, finally! Limited the Facebook time to quick check/ response to a few things, Chloe Swarbrick’s daily Facebook live and the lunchtime Covid update from the Prime Minister & dear Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand’s Director General for Health. For those not familiar with Ashley Bloomfield, read this. While the Director-General of Health is enjoying adoration and respect from all quarters, it seems our Health Minister, Dr. David Clark, is experiencing […]
Day 12: Garden Tour
After doing the House Tour on Day 6, I thought today we could have a Garden tour. It is just as is – no garden tidying done prior to filming (unlike the house tour where I did it after a good clean!). I did a wee walk around the garden yesterday and talked and filmed at the same time. We have a heavy empahsis on productivity in our garden, having reduced the size of the lawn considerably since we purchased the house in 2012 […]
Day 11: Sunday Funday
Sunday was a day off work for both of us. But we are both rather active relaxers so we had quite busy days! Antony did the monthly accounts for a Trust he is treasurer for, vaccumed the house, mowed the lawn, did some other garden jobs, practiced golf into the big net we bought and set up his fancy indoor bike thing. Here he is going hard out around Central Park in New York using the Swift programme. We had a late night last […]