Tag: Wellington

Today is our last day at level four lockdown. Not that level three looks much different for most people, including us, and we are warned that, if we don’t behave ourselves, we will be back to level four. I smile as I type that, imagining Jacinda putting on her best schoolmistress voice and ordering us […]

Last weekend’s paper carried an interview with Marian Keyes, in which she said that lockdown in the middle of a global pandemic is not the time to be particularly productive. It’s especially not a good time to write the novel you’ve always been planning – because we’re in fight or flight mode all our brain […]

I’m watching a lot more TV than I usually do, a combination of keeping up to date with the situation and that, in a smaller living area than we are used to, it isn’t half a kilometre away at the other end of the room and I can actually see it whilst I’m preparing/eating dinner. […]

All the best apocalyptic movies have a hidden danger lurking somewhere in the silent streets, just waiting for our heroine (or hero) to fall asleep, make a noise, or say ‘I’ll be back in a minute.’ Then they pounce. Or crawl slowly as dramatic music plays. With a suitable gravelly voiceover, I now report that […]

It’s that time of year. The time when my dreams are haunted by columns of figures and my days are filled with excuses to avoid doing our tax returns. This year, being in lockdown, I should find it easier to plant my bum on a chair, stay inside and just get on with it. But […]

Most days I can nail this lockdown thing. Yes, I’m frustrated by some aspects of it, as no doubt most are, but I can look forward to the end: when I can shop without having to queue to get into the store, and I can find everything I need in there; when I can get […]

It being a weekend and therefore time for a longer walk, we headed up Mt Victoria again. It’s a nice change from city streets, even if it can be a little challenging to maintain the required social distance, the path in places being a mere metre wide. Some creative thinking is required when meeting walkers […]

There are a few ‘re-worded’ songs doing the rounds at the moment. Most of them are pretty clever, lyrics changed to reflect the current circumstances. Walking around Wellington’s waterfront this afternoon I had my own attempt buzzing around my skull: Walking in a Covid-normal World. There is no more; those were the only lyrics I […]