31st March 2020, day six of lockdown begins and with a clean house, stocked fridge, no work to do, we become somewhat vigilantes…we are keeping an eye on this car parked across the road belonging to our story telling sneak (broken leg) from the previous evening, where a second car suddenly appeared that he took off in to dispatch children, who cannot come and go at this time. The original car has made its home on the street outside my gate.
However, Broken leg wanted to have the last word….he informed the directors he needed to return to his previous temporary abode at our safe haven…to collect medication. Time proposed 1pm. He duly arrived at 12.30pm, thinking he would trick the Miss Marples. Time of arrival noted and time of departure noted, half an hour to collect medication…. and a car load of gym equipment! Stopping intentionally outside Trudi’s cottage to inform her he was officially homeless, to which Trudi replied “no you’re not, you can stay where you stayed for the first two days of lockdown” (he had informed directors this was ex wife family home – his dual pod)….to Trudi he now replied “well that was a motel in kerikeri” The plot thickens, he certainly has been spreading himself around….and in contact with whom we ask? I somehow don’t think we have seen the last of him, but next time it’s the authorities problem, not ours….
Meanwhile, Limping Larry has obviously been abandoned by his family as an outcast and adopted the Riverhaven community as a safe haven in this hostile world. He is really struggling to walk and spend most of the afternoon curled up under the feijoa tree next door, looking somewhat sad (if ducks can look sad)…I know we are not to feed these guys, but this is one, and I think a not very well one…
So yesterday was cool in the morning, brought rain late morning and fined up to a beautiful afternoon and all the locals took to the streets for their daily exercise…
I tried to ignore that I should move, as I had finally got my Teeth into a John Grisham novel…and had decided it was my day five activity to read again (for the first time in 12months!) John(Grisham) and I did reach a point where one of the storyline’s was resolved and I felt I could step out of this world (of words) for a moment and take a stroll around the neighbourhood…it was lovely to see people out and about….keeping the 3-4 meter levels of separation but being able to say Hi to their friends…social interaction at a distance, a whole new world.
George and I put the cover on the boat, as we cannot use this while in lockdown, and ate our way through the big pot of vege soup I had made the day before!
Day 6 ahead, George has his homemade exercise plan well under way, I think I need to roll with the punches and ensure I get up and do some physical activity for at least an hour a day…so here we go on day six….
All who wander are not Lost girls 