First Day of Lockdown

Hi there

Well, yesterday was the first day of Lockdown.  I have an exercycle, rebounder, aerobic step, weights, dumbells.  So I guess I'm covered for exercise - if I feel like doing it.

And I wrote out a menu for the whole of my first week in prison - oh, wait, no, I mean 'Lockdown'.  If the queen works out her forward menus whilst she's lying in bed eating her muesli and scrambled eggs, then I can do the same thing.  I now feel as if I have some control over my life by plotting out my menus.   I have enough food to get me through the 4 week Lockdown, even though a lot of it isn't that appetising.  The worry is that, of course, I will shortly run out of fresh food, but the supermarkets have said that they will bring in a lot of fresh stuff to the detriment of unnecessary sells.

Be kind ...

Hi there

Well, from Wednesday midnight, New Zealand will be in lockdown.  Isolation.  Especially for older people.  Four weeks minimum, maybe four months. 

And I only have a teeny deep freeze: stick in a couple of loaves of bread, a packet of fish fingers, a lamb roast, and that's about all the darn thing will take.  I can see that dieting is on the cards.

I wish everyone around the world pleasant thoughts, and the wish that we emerge unscathed.  Be kind to each other.

Melbourne and After

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I was so scared taking the plane to Melbourne because I still have this cough, left over from last November.  I had my doctor write me a letter saying it was an acute cough and nothing to do with the Corona Virus.  Luckily, I got through Melbourne Airport without coughing.

However, I was wearing this clumpy ankle brace (stupid sprained ankle).  The brace had the maker's logo in some sort of metal on the front of it and I got stopped in Melbourne as I went through the x-ray machine.  Staff came running.   My brace was swabbed for explosves, then I was taken to the side and swabbed twice more for drugs.  I was highly indignant.  I would have enjoyed it more if they had been filming for "Border Security".  Darn.

Melbourne, itself, wasnt that spectacular for me because I couldn't walk very well.  I went to three shows, two of which I had a seat in the dress circle.  And no lift to get up there.  I tell you, my four readers, that I took for.....ever to get up and down those stairs.

Tell you what, though -  thank you, Thin Lizzy concealer:  you saved my days, otherwise I would have been walking through Melbourne with two black eyes.

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This weekend is the first anniversary of the horrendous killings at the Mosque in Christchurch.  I cannot understand how some people can have no empathy for others.  My heart goes out to the community.

On dear..

Hi there

Remember when I said that I always seem to get injured or ill just before a holiday or while I'm on holiday? Well -

I was in Melbourne all last week, but four days before I left, I tripped over a little curb in the Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand ) carpark.  Flat on my face, terribly sprained my ankle (yes, yes, it was less than a month since I sprained the opposite knee!).

I didn't know right up till the day of travelling whether I could manage the trip.  So with a brace on my ankle, Thin Lizzy concealer covering two black eyes, and att-i-tude in my heart,  I hobbled onto the plane.

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PS: the black eyes got worse than in the photo.