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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The ballad of Jessie Dredge, or Stay the fuck at home

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 41 Some stories seem tailor made for a country song: This one could be called The Ballad of Jessie Dredge. Related:

  • Counting the lucky stars

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 40 It was another slow day. Some editing, some voiceover work. Some editing of zoom meetings. Reflecting a lot though on an email from overseas and how differently the lockdown is being handled around the world. The Moscow Times says Russia’s curve is climbing steadily: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/03/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-may-3-a69117 The curve is looking exponential. Russia confirmed 10,633…

  • It happened again

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 36 Here I am three days in the future looking back… A busy day, tidying up loose ends, admin, nothing special

  • The days go slow, the weeks go fast

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 35 I was talking to a friend today and we were both feeling a bit dislocated. Because we are working from home, we have what feels like much longer days. Domestic tasks are mixed in with professional tasks; house language and office language are blurring. You do some work, then oput on…

  • Or is it level down?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 34 Who can tell any more? It’s Level 3, anyway. It was a slow day. Work meetings got postponed, so I did some audio editing, some coding and other tasks. Lots of things are in the nearly finished pile. Made a bit of a plan for the month ahead. Already the city…

  • Time to level up?

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 33 Here it was, the last day of Level 4. Not much will be different of course, but we’ll probably feel better. It was a Monday, the Anzac Day holiday, so it was a cruisy day. Mow the lawns, talk to the nighbour, forget what I was was meant to be doing…

  • A stand at dawn

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    Anzac Day 2020 We don’t usually go to the official services on Anzac Day – while we commemorate, we don’t celebrate. Don’t get me wrong, I am eternally grateful to those who served and fell, the pomp and ceremony isn’t my cup of tea. This year we did. We all got up and stood at…

  • Blurring timelines

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 29 The timelines are blurring. It could be one day, or another. The days go slow, the year goes fast. It was the first of times, it was the last of times.

  • Four weeks down

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 28 So busy again, keeping on keeping on. Today though, I was ever alert, watchful and waiting for the alcohol delivery … The driver had to sight ID, so I taped it to the door in the hope that if I didn’t hear the knock, the package would be left with the…