Sheep are making a comeback

As we wake to a clear sunny Saturday, after a week of cold wet lockdown we ponder what we have become.

In short, a city of mask wearing, home working (or not working), TV watching, handwashing humans! Apart from a few, where the lure of shopping, skiing and a feast of McDonalds, are finding themselves in the media headlines and in some cases…court!

We are playing the game, (most of us)….getting jabbed, not hugging, not moving house, not seeing friends, living off the government stipend, and not getting the dreaded covid….one could go on, the rewards are endless.

There have been some highs and lows to the week just gone. Dan and I celebrated (and mourned) the two year anniversary of losing our dear Russ…by consuming every last drop of beer. Russ would have been proud, although the next day was not pleasant for either of us!

On Thursday I woke, with a much clearer head, dreading the morning instant coffee! An advertisement for online sales and delivery popped up on my social media and I got to work! A coffee machine, a toasted sandwich maker and a smoothie bullet! Done by 6am. Expecting a delivery within 7 days, I was pleasantly surprised by a phone call at 7.15 from Harvey Norman to say I had ordered the wrong size coffee pods, so he would put the right ones in, packing my order and delivery same day! It’s the small things that matter! So by 4pm there we were surrounded with my new appliances and feeling like it was Christmas Day! All for the small courier fee of $8.75 from south Auckland to my Waiwera gate!

Needless to say, Friday workday flew by accompanied with flat whites and toasted sandwiches! And by 3pm the rain had cleared! This weather break prompted a round of golf – at the abandoned campground, lots of laughs and small signs of improvement (dare I say) followed by a social distance moment on the waterfront.

A modicum of life in a very boring lockdown world!