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 […]
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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 5 – Rainy Monday
Today I woke up as per usual at 5.40 (no alarm needed)… surprised to discover Antony was already up working – he usually needs 1 – 2 more hours sleep than me. I seized the rare opportunity to turn the lights on and read in bed. I made myself a hot lemon drink and enjoyed reading ‘Hand in Glove’ for about an hour and a half. It’s one of the many Robert Goddard novels I found at the Chertsey Bookstore last year… he’s a […]
Lock-down Day 3
Lazy Saturday helllloooo! Body clock seemed to know it was the weekend and let me sleep in until 6.45, whoop whoop. I then stayed in bed for hours… talking with Antony, facebooking, whats app’ing friends and reading. Antony has been VERY busy this week advising his clients as best he can about the government support for businesses and what their options are in the current situation. He’s an accountant so also has all the 2019 accounts that need to be in by the end […]
Lock-down Day 1
And so it begins… today is the first official day of nation-wide lock-down. Right across New Zealand last night phones beeped loudly (even those on silent) as the government issued a National Emergency Management Alert. New Zealanders are to stay home. If we don’t work in essential services, we are not to drive anywhere except to health centres/ hospital or supermarkets. Police will be making sure we follow these rules. A walk or bike ride in our local area is ok but only alone […]