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 […]
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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 […]
Day 10 – Online Gems
Such a lovely social Zoom call this morning with some TimeBankers. It was really nice and I tried running break out rooms for the first time. It’s where you can put participants into rooms (e.g. of 2 or 3 people in each) -either manually assign who goes with who or let zoom do it automatically… then participants can only see who is in their room. Great to get more people talking together than if everyone is on the main call the whole time! I […]
Day 9
Boring post alert! It’s 7.34pm Friday night and I am wondering what to write today! I have started a post about food.. but that will have to wait for another day as I want to make a few things and take photos to illustrate how I make bread, milk, crackers, sprouts etc. I reckon the Food Special will be a good post.. but it aint ready yet. Today went fast… again… I really don’t know where the days are disappearing to. I feel like […]
Day 8 – Shop & Work day
Today started out very cloudy and foggy but turned into a beautiful sunny day, just like yesterday! I started the day at 7am with an hour and a half conference call with international TimeBank coordinators (most of the callers were in the US and it was their Wednesday afternoon). I then did two loads of washing, an hour of body combat, and left the house to go to the Green Grocer and the Supermarket. Was stoked the Green Grocer was still open – this […]
Day 7
Today I… woke with an incredibly itchy throat (again) – took nasal spray for allergies and a pill which I’ve tried to avoid taking every day but realise I need to or I suffer with itchy eyes, throat and runny nose. (I haven’t really been snot free since start of January – combination of a cold or two and allergies – not sure what is causing the allergy). Am very grateful I don’t have a cough or fever!! watched 2 episodes of TV on […]
Day 6 – House Tour!
Another lovely day in lock-down… went super fast though! Got some Te Reo Māori study done today, a Body Combat session, cooking and also meal planning for the next week. I’ve assembled a bit of a shopping list and realised we will need to go to the supermarket soon – bugger. It’s not a place I shop very often (as we usually buy where we can avoid packaging/ fill our own containers – i.e. Bin Inn and Pikos in Christchurch). With reports I’ve seen […]