• A new beginning

    Life has been busy chez nous. We spent a number of days cleaning Peter’s deceased brother Frank’s home unit – which belongs to us. Frank’s children emptied the place of furniture and so on, then walked away, leaving us with the mess – and Frank’s eleven-year-old cat to deal with. We haven’t caught the cat…

  • Where to from here?

    A few days ago I read something on Facebook extolling the virtues of how New Zealand had dealt with the covid-19 pandemic – harsh lock downs all over the country, no travel, and strict quarantine, resulting in no new cases in over one hundred days. It all sounded great but it occurred to me as…