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  • Not a winning ticket

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    Coronavirus day 52 I’ve started a zoom call, interview birthday celebration podcast thing. Had the first call today with the fastest facebook commenter, JB. He made the astute point that we’re not, strictly speaking, in lockdown anymore … so I deleted that word from the subtitles. Today was a domestic bliss day – cleaning, washing,…

  • Can you take the ums out please?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 52 The morning was fixing up some final video tweaks, and some administrivia. Friday afternoon beers were welcome, a friend visited, then a zoom call with bandmates. I was late, but we had a good chat. I realised during the course of it that my basic job at the moment, audio and…

  • Day 50 billion

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    Coronavirus Lockdown Day 51 Today was the first day of Level 2, after 7 weeks of lockdown. It began early, after another nice sunrise, with an 8am zui (zoom hui). Looks like a positive outcome from that, so another project on the list. Then there was a bit of waiting and non-meetings. I missed a…

  • Fifty, and nearly 50

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 50 Day 50 was a budget preview day. Big Norm got a mention. It will be a real change to see an investment budget. Work has been slower the last couple of days (that is not a complaint) and I had time to do a few online tutorials about After Effects. New…

  • Seven-week slowness

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 49 Seven weeks this weirdness has continued, and soon it will be Level 2. I’ve been thinking a lot about what lockdown has meant. Certainly it is history in the making and the end of many things. As the US and the UK have shown, the world really could do with looking…

  • Whew!

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 48 Monday, and there was only one thing on the calendar – the Level 2 or not announcement. And it was Level 2. So will the country go crazy rushing out for a haircut and some cafe food? Who knows, but probably. I saw one dude complain that it took Jacinda 752…

  • Mother’s Day

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 47 A trip to the supermarket last night yielded ingredients for the Mother’s Day breakfast. Pancakes, bacon, banana, maple syrup, icing sugar, lemon … and it was good. Not quite as good as the birthday pancakes, probably because I didn’t have help this time … Anyhoo, it was another lovely day and…

  • Nice day for it …

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 46 It was close to a day off. Bit of a sleep in to start, which was nice. Went to Mitre 10. This was a regular pre-lockdown activity, and how it had changed. Two doors, which used to be entry and exit, were now Surname A-M and P-Z. You were given a…

  • Gently down the stream

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 45 Today it was hui and Pānui, meetings and email, conversations and best of all Friday. Couple of beers at the end of the day and a chat with friends and a quiet night in front of the tele.

  • Slow, slow, slow your boat

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    Coronovirus lockdown day 44 Thursday. admin, phone calls, edits, little by little progress made on projects. Time is going slowly again.

  • Get busy living

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 43 A cold and clear morning with snow on the Double and the Grampians and Mount Richmond, and a dusting near Motueka. More work, delivered a couple of eps of a radio programme; more taking the ums out of videos; more music, more life. Redid some tracks that I had been casually…

  • Ted’s dead

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 42 42: The answer to life, the universe and everything. Ironically, also a miscalculation. One thing you couldn’t get wrong though was the temperature today – after a couple of days of rain, some cold southerly snaked its way up the island and dumped snow on the hills. We put the fire…