Saturday, September 4, 2021

Staying In

Most of the country moved to Level 3 on Wednesday and the first thing most of the country did was get a ‘proper’ coffee and/or takeaways. I held out until Friday then went the whole hog, text and collect coffee in the afternoon…

Beer and a burger for dinner both contactless delivery. That’s a blood orange sour btw. 
And this sign of the times from my walk this morning. 


Saturday, August 28, 2021

Going out

One of the adjustments to Level 4 this time round is wearing a mask whenever you leave the house.  So this morning’s trip to the dairy looked like this…

And because you’ve probably guessed what the weather was like I also went kitted out with these…

Which turned out to be a great decision because to get to the dairy I ended up having to wade through this!



Saturday, August 21, 2021

Lockdown Life

So we are back in Level 4, working from home and with essential services only open. Someone was reading the tea leaves though because a couple of weeks ago the COVID Tracer app had an upgrade and now includes an ‘I stayed home’ option.

Feeling good about not going anywhere except the supermarket and the dairy.  


Saturday, August 7, 2021

Not Black

When it’s been cold and wet and you mostly wear many layers of black fabulous socks are essential. 


Luckily over the last few birthdays and Christmases I’ve been gifted a wonderful collection of which today’s laundry is a small sample. 

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Second!

Second COVID shot done exactly 21 days after the first and I mean exactly. To the minute and even with the same vaccinator. 



Saturday, July 24, 2021

How Wide is a Cat’s Bum?

This was a critical question when the new windows were going in. Not for the windows themselves but for the sills that are prime street watching spots at the front of the house. After much discussion with my lovely (fellow cat slave) builder we settled on 10-15cm. Decision roundly and voluntarily endorsed




Saturday, July 17, 2021

Rose Path

Today some of the Hikoikoi weavers visited the Port Nic Hand Weavers. Even though we are harakeke weavers and they are loom weavers there are a lot of similarities, mostly the amount of prep required and the patterns. Rose Path is any kind of repetitive pattern, we know this particular one as Patiki. 

As you can see we got to bring home our work which was super special.