MAKE SOMEONE SMILE

I had a lady comment on the blog yesterday "Minerva"... and I've since been in contact with her.

She's formed a small 'Yarn bombing' Facebook group, and I've joined it.

Cos, well... I decided that I will yarn bomb our roadside curb tree.

The object being to do something different with some of my time, AND hopefully make someone smile?

So, yesterday afternoon I stitched my first piece on this tree:

 ABOVE: Naked as a jaybird.

ABOVE:  The first section is on.  *smiles*

Best thing?  As I was stitching it on, a neighbour walked past (on the other side of the road) and she laughed and smiled.  She knew what I was doing (Yarn bombing the tree).
Mission accomplished for yesterday.

 ABOVE:  Brylee had work today, but due to the lock down, she's not going in.  In fact, she will most likely be made redundant.

ABOVE: And this bloke?  Happy to be home.  So is Coco, his lap is her NUMBER 1 place to be.

I heard that taping of Coronation Street has been shut down due to Covid-19!  SHOCK! HORROR!
But... as we are currently a few months behind, I will still get to watch it through this horrible time.  Such a relief!  lol

You have to look for positives eh?  

I mean, poor Stew has no rugby or current/live sport to watch!  He's having to watch old stuff.

SKY have given us free Movies for three months, so we can watch movies, Netflix and so on.  We won't go nuts with nothing to watch.

Lacy went up to Whangarei for the weekend, and is now on her way home.  
We are going to take some precautions with her re-entering our house.

- She must go directly to the bathroom and have a shower, disinfect herself and her hands, and put all her clothes in the wash.

- She must wear a face mask for a week when she is around us, until we are sure she hasn't come home sick.

-  She must NOT leave the property unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, until we are sure she is well.

We are not taking any chances.  We are also not accepting any visitors to our home for any reason.

I think we will be visiting the supermarket today, just to get a few more essentials... like DIET COKE.  But it will be a quick trip, just in and out, then home to hunker down again.
I hope there isn't too long a queue at the supermarket!

ONWARD...

VICKI:  Lacy didn't leave the country, so is technically not required to self isolate due to travelling.  We are just taking a few precautions for our own peace of mind.  She has only been in contact with a couple of girlfriends while away, and they are well.

We are at a much higher risk of catching 'it' by going to the freakin' supermarket, where there's thousands of people touching things every day.

Let's not get paranoid over this, it is what it is, and we will all do our part to try and slow it down until it burns out.

FROM STEVE:

He's had another good night with little pain.

Homeschooling:

ABOVE: Seems to be going well.

Dante usually has swimming at school on Tuesdays, so he's getting hosed down outside later on.

Archer gets to hold the hose, cos he usually gets to do some water play at Kindy.

Not going to change their 'routines'.  lol

10.48 am:  And we have decided NOT to go to the supermarket today.  It's crazy out there, people are panic buying and the queues are huge.  So we will just stay home and wait until it settles down a bit.

Now... off to get some brunch. 

3.20 pm:  And we have heard from Lacy.  It would appear she is trapped in Whangarei!
She can't get petrol.  There are road blocks? to her leaving.  So it's a weird situation.
She may have to stay there for a month!

But what I'm hearing on the news right now is that all New Zealanders are being allowed to travel to their place of residence in NZ.  So I don't see how she can be 'detained' in friggin Whangarei?

I added more to my tree:

ABOVE:  And like yesterday, I got quite a few smiles from people driving and walking by!  One man driving by looked at me all the way up the road... looking very perplexed!  ha ha ha!

COLLEEN:  I am doing it my way *smiles*.  And it's lovely to see the passers by smiling.  

Stew finally got off the chair and we did a little gardening late this afternoon.  It was lovely to get outside I must say.

ABOVE: We finally got the plants we brought over from Cambridge into the garden.  They had grown HUGE compared to how little they were when I took cuttings back in December.

I pulled all the ivy out of that garden by the chairs too... I really didn't want it taking hold and choking everything.

Now?  Have to sort out something for dinner.

Well we did KFC for dinner... Stew did the drive through.  That won't be an option after tomorrow night when pretty much all fast food outlets will close for 4 weeks (minimum).

I'm signing off for the day... tired after doing very little today!  

p.s. I've heard from Lacy tonight.  She is staying out of Whangarei at the moment. Whoever was giving her information re:  Travel restrictions was obviously wrong.
Where she's staying the petrol station and shops were closed today.
Hence her being unable to gas up and leave.

She is going into Whangarei tomorrow morning to gas up and try to get home.