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  • 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…

  • Hurry up and wait

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 5 It was the busiest of times, it was the slowest of times. It’s easy to lose track of the days. After talking a lot to family and friends yesterday it is clear we are all still adjusting. I did work but also enjoyed the sun and did some recording on some…

  • The first death

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 4 News today of NZ’s first death from coronavirus on the West Coast. Not unexpected, but still very sad, and it makes everything that much more real, especially for the front line workers. In a small community it will be especially difficult. Hopefully it will also reinforce the message we have to…

  • We won’t go back to normal because ‘the normal’ is the problem

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 3 "We won't go back to normal, because 'the normal' was the problem." pic.twitter.com/Lu7mkydR6p — Giorgos Kallis (@g_kallis) March 27, 2020 I saw this on twitter and it struck a chord. There’s massive social and economic change ahead; the carnage will be painful but it also gives us a chance to rebuild…

  • Why women kill

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 2 So by the end of day 2, it was suggested we watch Why Women Kill as the Friday night entertainment! Jokes aside, it’s a good watch, the continuity is well done between the three stories. We’re not getting on badly at all! I’m doing three or four hours of online meetings…

  • The end of the world as we know it

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    Coronavirus lockdown day 1 I’ve been through emergencies before – earthquakes, fires, floods, tsunami alerts – pretty much the works. But never anything like this. One-third of the world is in lockdown. One-third! It’s frightening, and the speed and severity of the spread is still dawning on some people, and some countries, around the world.…

  • No repeat weekend

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    You remember when people listened to commercial radio? One of the tricks they used to keep people listening was the “no repeat weekend” – a promise of if you caught us playing a repeated song, we’ll give you a thousand bucks, or a weekend away or something. (See also: No repeat workday”) They’d “mess up”…

  • Dead people I have known

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    Turns out Shayne Carter knows quite a lot of dead people. Some he knew well, others were at more of a distance, but they all made it into this book, which he locked himself up in Aramoana to write.* But don’t worry – this isn’t a dirge or a eulogy parade. There’s plenty of verve…

  • Stay on course …

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    Here is a map of golf courses in the Nelson Tasman region – perhaps a roadie is in order? About this map The courses in green are the ones I have played. The ones in blue are on the list – but golf is off the table during the coronavirus pandemic.