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So covid arrived in New Zealand in 2020 ….. long lockdowns siting between different levels… turning 30 and graduating the big highlights of 2020 2021 saw through another year of lockdowns, traffic lights and more covid with new variants… first ever teaching Job … wooooooo ( I am now signed off for my first year of teaching) Now here we are in May of 2020 and it so happens that just yesterday…

What an interesting year it has ended up being, so much has happened, covid has still stuck around.. and now we have the newer variant in NZ although I think it is only at the border. I am frankly just over covid and hearing about it. To pick up from my last post that was in October, last month in November was just busy working, one day I had actually also worked the whole day, an extra 2 hours…

Time flew by after this latest move of being in lockdown and at level 4 and 3…. this lockdown has been a lot different to last years one. With last year it was easier to know what was going on, as in how long we would be at each level for. Although now the south island and most of the north island are sitting at level 2 and have been now for over a month, while Auckland is at level 3 and a couple…

It was announced that Auckland would be staying at level 4 until 31st August while the rest of the country will continue to be at level 4 till this Friday, so another 4 days of staying at home and every now and then popping outside for some exercise. Yesterday I took Harry for a bit of a walk whilst my camera also came along and I took a few photos along the way, especially of some of the…

Will now we are on to day four of the lock down which for the rest of NZ was extended till Tuesday which was announced yesterday afternoon when we also had about 31 one cases in the community, now as of today there is 21 more new cases bringing our total up to 51… one thing that is a bit worrying not just that it is now in Wellington but also the fact that there is near 10,000 people that are…

So last night just after 6pm it was announced by our government that we would be going hard and fast once again. This of course meant moving into Level 4. Yesterday earlier in the afternoon it was announced that there was a case in the community. While there was this case in the community they had already begun to find the locations of interest that the person came into contact with over a period…

So I decided to go on a little bit of a spontaneous trip to Kaikoura, one reason was because it was my Grandma’s birthday. Also I had thought if I did go along that I would love to go Whale watching as it had always been something that I had wanted to do, all those other times that I had visited Kaikoura… Of course half of those times were because I did not have the money too. So I drove all the…

Still been quite a busy year especially with working everyday and the days being quite long, will at least the seem long. Which they must have been since this weekend I decided to go visit my grandma out in Resolution bay cabins for the weekend. Will I went out yesterday on the early boat out, the weather was cloudy, not really cold bit of wind and looking like it might want to rain which it…

Part 2… After breakfast and getting all ready to check out of the hotel before we did some more exploring before we went to get on the ferry later in the afternoon. We first went to Cuba street, along the waterfront, Te Papa ( the top of my list to visit) so worth it because I got to see the Gallipoli exhibit which was just amazing. Wellington is quite a nice city to visit and I excited to go…

Last month in April, over ANZAC weekend I got to have the opportunity to go to Wellington for the weekend I was quite excited to be going as I had never been before and had been wanting to go visit over the last few years, will actually quite a long time to be honest. So leading up to the day of the trip across the strait I had a google of some of the different things to see and visit within the…

Still virtually travelling the beautiful Pacific Islands 🙂 American Samoa 🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸 Samoa 🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸🇼🇸 Fiji 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯

Have you ever felt like you wanted to do something but you have felt like it would be viewed as stupid or dumb or weird by other people…. well I had that moment the other day. The other day I was sorting out some of the graduation photos I had printed off earlier in the month and was sorting them out as to who wanted what photos. And then as I had some left over and a spare photo frame as I had…

Zookeepers Wife – A movie Review

A while ago I decided to finally watch one of the many movies that are sitting in my to be watched list on netflix. So I decided on Zookeeper’s Wife, it was a movie that I was meaning to watch one day when i had seen that it would be on the tv but by the time it came around to watching it, the movie was nearly finished that also could have been because I had forgotten all about it. Then one day…

Here are a few extra photos from the last few months 🙂 Photos from Marlborough Sounds, sunrises at Resolution Bay Cabins, featuring a lensball, sunflowers, mud house wine that was gifted, Harty and tui having fun at the river, and a farm field. Also a sunset Photos from Wildlife cruise I went on, many different sea life, especially different sea birds including a king shag which is only native…

This movie looks at the life of Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband JFK, which she was also there for. It was an ok movie I did find myself feeling a little confused during it, could just be because I don’t really know much of what went on after he was shot and really how it was like for Jackie, the acting was good though and was a little of the reason why I was watching it…