Well, I'm grateful I got those gf pizza bases for Saturday night tea, because I won't be getting my fish and chips. This entry was originally posted at https://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/420736.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)

Level 4 lockdown, here we come. At least I'm vaccinated. Breakthrough infection is possible but I'm a lot less likely to have anything worse than a few days of general illness.

Hopefully my dental appointment comes under the heading of emergency dental work (cracked tooth, potential of infection), and I got this week's grocery shopping in today ( Read more... )

After three community cases of covid in Auckland my area is level 2 tomorrow. It won't make much difference given that all I had planned was work and grocery shopping. Here's hoping all goes well. This entry was originally posted at https://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/413162.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)

NZ has an app to help manage contact tracing for covid. And I always thought, man, I should use that. So I downloaded it, and for three weeks(!) I struggled to figure out what to do with it. But eventually, I got it sussed. No more handling dodgy pens to write down my goings in and out of shops, which is a good thing in itself.

I announced my ( Read more... )

Well, the bad is new covid cases and an increase to my local alert level. How that affects day to day life where I am is that perspex screens have gone back up at the supermarket and you have to load your own groceries in the carpark; there are entry logs at the vet's offices (and other premises too, of course), with yellow distancing lines on the ( Read more... )

So today I walked into a real shop and a garden centre to indulge a small scale orgy of consumerism. (Two bags of kitty litter and half a dozen winter colour plants for the garden if you need to know the details.) Oh man, it was strange but good, you know?

So I still can’t sit in a cafe under level 3 but I can get my car repaired. Calloo callay! My husband’s is a perfectly useable, if ancient, wee car but damn I miss my automatic transmission and my cd player.

Also, now that there are generally far fewer restrictions on internet buying perhaps I can finally buy a b-day present to myself. This entry ( Read more... )

I did my shopping today, standing along my yellow physical distance strip as I waited to be let into the supermarket. Supplies were okay although there was no, and I mean no wheat flour left in the store. Luckily I wanted maize cornflour and cornmeal, so I did manage those. (Second to last box of maize cornflour though ( Read more... )

New Zealand goes into lockdown by Wednesday. I count as an essential worker, so this is going to be ...interesting. Yes. Let's do some understatement.

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