It's a Kiwi lockdown life

Its been 43 days since we've been in some type of lockdown in Wellington. Plusses:

* my weight !
* lots of projects around the garden have finally been ticked off
* I've culled junk from my laptop
* We've painted interior window trims
* I've decided I'm no slouch as a hairdresser (in a crisis)
* Carolski's reorganised the bookcase & the spices drawer
* The bedroom got vacuumed, dusted and painted to within an inch of being classified as a laboratory
* I baked some great bread
* Made some watercolour inks

Here's a few images from the last few weeks at Level 4 and Level 3 lock down.



Mish came back from Oz a few days before the full lock down, and she went into self isolation for two weeks. Being such a good girl she didn't even step onto the street. She's holding something you will very rarely see: a hand written boarding pass. The system crashed at the airport and she then had to prove she was a NZ permanent resident. And, eventually, they let her on the plane.

We didn't have a teddy bear to put in a street facing window for passing kid walkers, so we did a driveway display with a squirrel, the gingerbread man, and a cow money box.

Overgrown area on the right, and all up the street side bank, is now hucked out too for new plantings when we can get to a nursery.

We have big loads of green waste and flax (too tough for green waste), and clean out stuff (old paint tins etc.). and metal recycling, all ready for trailer hire when we have somewhere to take it.






But the guy around the corner is a teddy bear collector and military nut, and he went for broke.



We had a jigsaw bought years ago on Waiheke Island; attempted then and put away until - house imprisonment. Took us about two weeks to do. Haircuts already needed.

Mish in the kitchen making felt poppies for Anzac Day.
On Anzac Day, we stood on our deck in the dark and listened to the short service on the radio. Lest we forget.

The poppy collection in the driveway on a beautiful autumn Anzac Day. We've had loads of days like these through lock down.





There was baking and much recipe experimentation. Chia puddings, beans, dahl, trifle! Mish made the custard and Carol made the sponge for that one. Pretty yummy.
Mish made a Mediterranean platter for one of those lovely days and lunch outside.



Afghans of course.


There was plum jam making and peach chutney making.



A small bit of painting. Main bedroom wardrobe is now spruced up.



Gardening. Weeding. Totem making. Etc.



And standing in supermarket queues, shopping for us and doing mum's groceries. Got to have at least one queue photo. A special time of social distancing.

This was getting mum's prescriptions on a bright day, standing on my allotted cross.. (For the next drug collection I was standing in the rain in a puddle with  a brolly jammed in my jacket for about 10 minutes and no camera.)