The Waiting Room

Thursday 8th May 2020…..Monday and Tuesday zero cases but Wednesday one of the first clusters is still active. Two new cases and another death. Seems like this will not go away.

Meanwhile in the waiting room….

Tuesday calm

We are enjoying Autumn calm and…..

Beach workouts

A perfect space to lift weights, medicine balls, laugh and cool off in the last of the summer wine! Gave the boys a couple of hours of eye candy to pass the iso afternoon!

No story yesterday and the day brought more late Autumn sunshine, cool breezes, thermals and puffer jackets. Another bi weekly trip to a very congested supermarket, work and a huge celebration! My oldest son has signed off his building apprenticeship (pending a first aid course that had to be postponed in the lockdown!) So proud and so would Russ have been! We knew you could do it!

So beach fishing is all go and my beautiful daughter in law is making the most of her teaching stand down….

Shadows at sunset!

A few hookups and throwbacks as the sun set in our little patch of paradise!

And to finish the day an almost full moon…

A view from the camp

Bubble happy hour is now a small group and in the chilly evening, the moon heralded in the clear evening from our bubble vantage point.

Photo credit John Murray

Meanwhile, I asked our waterfront isolation buddy to snap the moon in the clear sky above sugarloaf island….while the walls are closing in, nature is providing us with beauty and hope!

Riverhaven (the camp) is a beautiful place, but unfortunately a place where there are rules for some and rules for others! There’s broken legs 12 month stint, and not forgetting the 12 months (or more) some stayed while they built a house, or worked up here! Now I’m being told that from the 25th of June my cottage cannot be used! Talk about keyboard warriors…

It is time for the free spirited to let the small stuff go and surround ourselves with positive motivated and beautiful humans, with BIG plans and lots of ambition! The Bonnici-Carter’s leading the charge, Russ and Mum right up front!

Roll on 2021 and a Covid free world where we can once again spread our kiwi wings. And the world will be a better place, because we have all learned to wash our hands (of any unkindness) while backing off on the random act of hugging! I think the art of conversation is making a comeback!

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