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Transmissions from Vlentary – 2nd January 2022 – Lockdown, what lockdown & It’s starting to look a lot like summer

                    Happy New Year :D.  May 2022 bring all that you hope for and not be a repeat of 2020. 2022 started off great for me.  We finally got out of lockdown on 15 December (Child finished school on 14 December … but of course.) My husband escaped Auckland with the rest of the city on 18 December and attempted to tackle the grass at our holiday home, as well as the eggs that had been…

Rose by anyother name

This was originally posted on my other site, however, since it got hacked, and I can’t find it on my new site …now is a good time to post it again 🙂 I was on Twitter the other night, chatting about character names with another writer. She had a very, what seemed to me, strong, powerful name for her FMC. It was a 1 syllable First Name with a 1 Syllabled Surname. She was also considering changing…

Transmissions from Vlentary – 24th October to 11th November – Lockdown Part 6: It’s been 84 years … and NANO Oh No

            Whoops, a little late on this one. Lockdown fatigue well and truly set in and there were days where I struggled to do more than stumble out of bed, log into work, and try to persuade the child that he really does need to do school work … On the lockdown front… still locked within Auckland, but as of yesterday, we can now gather in groups of 25 people outside, so cricket training is…

Transmissions from Vlentary – 10th – 23rd October – Lockdown Level Groundhog – The Lockdown Continues

            Level 3.1415926535 Red Light – Green Light For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction and Ohhh Look… wormhole Continue as you were, do not pass Go, do not collect $200   O.k so I’m mixing my idioms here but, I’m on day 62ish of lockdown, my Groundhog has given up and rinse and repeat is just making everything soggy…   Yes, our lockdown continues… We have just been told…

Transmissions from Vlentary – 26th September to 9th October – Lockdown Level 3.1 – Playdates and School Holidays

                    Ooops, a little late with this update. It’s certainly been a fortnight I’d much rather forget.   As you can see by the title, Auckland is still in lockdown. Eight weeks now, and we’ve been told to expect another four to eight before we come out the other side.   A positive is a slight change to the alert levels, so while we still can’t travel out of Auckland, we can organise…

Transmissions from Vlentary – 12th to 25th September – Lockdown Level 3 – Just like Level 4 … but with fast food.

                      Slowly sliding towards the end of September, into spring and hayfever season, and the start of Preptober …   Technically, I’ve been prepping all year for NANO and October is usually about the time I start to panic that I haven’t done enough, and end up completely reworking all the prep.  Trying not to let that happen this year… will let you know how that goes. LOL   How…

Here you’ll find my latest blog posts.   2021 Transmissions from Vlentary – 1st to 4th July 2021 Transmissions from Vlentary – 1st to 14th August 2021 Transmissions from Vlentary – 15th to 28 August 2021 Transmissions from Vlentary – 29th August to 11th September 2021 Transmissions from Vlentary – 12th to 25th September 2021