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Category: covid

  • Rain, and a snow day?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 19 Monday, is a Monday, Tuesday’s a perfect day with a wind that chills you to the bone … DD Smash, Outlook for Thursday It rained, which we needed, but it was cold. It feels like snow tonight. I’m eagerly looking out for the pumpkins to sprout or the citrus to spring…

  • What day is it? Where am I?

    What day is it? Where am I?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 18 Sunday? Yes, It’s Easter Sunday. I know this because I went out today. Yes, into the real world. The supermarket. It’s this place where food and drink and household products are stored in something called aisles. You get hand sanitiser at the door, navigate your way around line by line, keeping…

  • Average Saturday

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 17 The dog was restless. Up several times. Each of us got a turn to be barked at and ignored and to stand by the door waiting. Morning chores were going okay until I was outside putting stuff in the rubbish and heard the drain bubbling away. So it was off with…

  • Good Friday: the hacking of the hebe

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 16 As good a Friday as could be expected, I guess. Early start, thanks to the dog. Fine weather. Worked on some music. Did gardening – or more correctly hacking of hebe. It was about 3m in diameter and not much foliage. It’s a stump of twigs now really. Also trimmed the…

  • You’ve yet to have your finest hour, radio

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 13 In the blink of an eye, I missed three days? Where did that time go? I mean it’s Easter, so you could use the joke about disappearing for three days and then coming back and taking all the credit … but that isn’t the case here 🙂 Instead it’s been rinse…

  • And the wind cried, really?

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    Corona virus lockdown day 12 Sometimes you surprise yourself. You work on something for a while; it’s good. But then you collaborate with someone and something unexpected happens. Flamenco triplets turn up in a straight 4/4; a new cut builds momentum where there was a lull; Random chord injections, resolve and make sense. Suddenly the…

  • A knock at the door…

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    Corona virus lockdown day 11 Sunday, it was Sunday. I have to keep reminding myself what day it is. We stacked more wood, I did some work. A bit of garden and work outside. A shared lunch, chat with a neighbour or passer by from a distance. Later, after getting the Multitrack input working yesterday,…

  • ninjam, reaper and a stack of wood

    ninjam, reaper and a stack of wood

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 10 So another beautiful autumn day in Te Tauihu began with a cooked breakfast, before settling into some serious wood stacking. We got about 3 of the 4 cubic meters done, so pretty happy with that. Saw approximately half the neighbourhood walking around, and plenty of smiles, giddays and waves. They say…

  • Friyay!

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 9 We still haven’t had to venture out – we’ve had nearly everything we need delivered to us. Groceries, a computer, and today, a large pile of wood. Four cubic metres, and some kindling. So that’s what were doing this weekend. Stacking and piling into the woodshed and building some cover so…

  • Can we turn the world off, then on again?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 8 Hmm, it might be time to kick it in the guts Trev – everything’s busy and backward and slow and fast. When in doubt, reboot! A busy work day, but a bit late as the files came in around 5pm. Re-cut one piece, moved things around a bit, and oh, finesse…

  • Week one feels like a month

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 7 The dog was up early, barking at us. I slept a little late after a couple of beers last night. The first beers in a while, to be fair. So after annoying us, the dog went and sat in front of the teenager’s face. (Remember everything was taken out of the…

  • Quarasurf, or Jamkazam

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 6 It was just like the old days at Sawyers Arms Road. Well, it would have been if I was in the garage. Two of the three of us were. We used to jam and write and never, ever drink in a tin triple garage out the back of a flat where…