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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I've just been thinking I could live with these mld autumn days, as long as winter doesn't hit us overnight, it's nice being able to sit out in the sun and not cook in the heat, the summer we just had saw us get temperatures in the high 30's every day, so even sitting in the shade was to hot, it seems today is another fine autumn day so I'll be outside shortly when it's a little warmer and enjoying the good weather while it lasts.. It's a pity we're still on lockdown or I'd get a ride out to the beach and make a day of it there, hopefully by next spring we'll be back to some kind of normal again and we'll be able to do such things again..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I'm enjoying these nice mildish autumn days, I have a feeling when winter hits it'll hit overnight though, I'm still planning on making the most of the warmer days and sitting outside though, if we weren't on lockdown we could go further from home, at least sitting outside helps stop us going stir crazy..
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I'm glad the suns out after the cold night last night, there's just enough heat in it to warm us up to a reasonable temperature by mid morning, that means making a coffee and then sitting outside in the sun with a laptop for a while.. It's 2 May already and we're still getting warmish days, the longer they last the more I think we'll go from having 20 degree days to 12 degree days overnight when winter arrives, I've decided it's a good idea to make the most of these nice days before we get stuck indoors over winter and have the lockdown an Covid 19 doom and gloom..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I still can't get over how quiet it is these days with the lockdown, were up to day 36 of it too, 5 weeks at level 4, now the 6th day of level 3.. There's a motorway about 400 metres away from my place, normally we hear the traffic on it at my place quite clearly, at present it's not uncommon to go an hour with no traffic on it, normally it's a very busy stretch of road with cars and trucks going back and forth at 100 K/ph..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
We've had lockdown for 6 weeks now and I still haven't got used to it being so quiet, there's always traffic on my street and flights coming and going from our airport passing over, there's very little traffic, maybe 1 or 2 cars an hour passing by and no fights in or out.. We hopefully drop to level 2 in another wek, that may see things eased up a little and a few flights coming and going again, I hope so anyway..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
Well, the shopping and other chores are done for another week, I'll be glad when things return to some kind of normal again, doing simple things like the shopping has become a bit of a mission with trying to keep 2 metres from folk in the shops while they put their trolley on one side of the aisle and shop on the other, we can't keep a 2 metre gap like that, so it's either wait or go through the small gap.. All is done for another week so no stressing out until this time next week..
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It feels like winters set in this morning, I turned the heater off when I went for a shower, after making another coffee I decided to turn it back on again.. I don't have to go out today thankfully, I'm happy sitting by the heater and getting a few online chores done today..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I'm glad those of us who are on benefits mow get extra from May until the end of September to help with the power bills, my current bill is going to be about $250 for one month when it gets paid, it'll be higher next month with it then being winter.. I don't really need the extra as I pay a set amount each week which sees me get well in credit over summer, that credit pays the winter power bills, the extra I get from my benefit can get used for something else like getting ahead on the internet bill or the doctors bills which swwm to be getting more frequent..
I'm not sure if I'll be sitting outside this morning, after a freezing day yesterday, then a frost last night it may not warm up enough before lunch time, we shall see though..
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The mornings warming up quite nicely today, I may well move outside and work online in the sun rather than sit inside, it seems a shame to waste a nice day, once the washings finished I'll peg it out and start up a laptop..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
We have a nice fine day here, wile we can't wander far from home because of the lockdown we can still sit outside and enjoy a nice warm day and get rid of the aches and pains from the night before, now the towels are washed 'll be putting them on the line shortly and shifting myself outside with a laptop and a coffee..
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Now my chores are done for the day I'm outside enjoying the sunny day, it's good having laptops, no need for power cords if we sit outside with them and work while having a coffee..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I was hoping on sitting outside again this mrning, but it's very overcast and dull out, it looks like it could rain any time, the suns trying at present but the clouds very grey so I think I'll stay inside today, it'd be my luck I'd settle outside and it'd start raining, seeing I'm settled on this computer with a coffee I may stay put until lunch time..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
My banks website went down last night, it still wasn't back at midnight, so I was up a little earlier than usual to make sure my money was there before I went shopping, I got one bill paid before it went down again, the other bills can wait until this evening, as long as they're done by 10.00 p.m. the people will get their money tomorrow..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
My banks website was back to normal last evening so I can take it easier today after a busy few days, once the dishes and washing are done this old man will be lazy today, I may even have a poppa nap after lunch..
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It's our first morning back down at level 2, folk were looking forward to it as it meant a return to having a party or going to church, sadly the government changed the rules part way through, so there's a lot of unhappy campers here at present, on the upside, we're om level 2 which is giving a lot more freedom than level 4 did so we may as well keep smilimg and keep trucking..
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Well, the days chores are almost finished, dishes done, dinner cooking and washing not far from done, time for a coffee and a rest for this old fella I think.. It's a nice sunny morning, so I may go outside with a laptop shortly and cure all the aches and pains..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It was good getting the rain last night, had to turn up the TV by a third seeing the rain was so heavy, after about 7 months of no real rain we really needed it, hopefully the forecast is correct and we see more today and tomorrow to get some water in our bores, then the water restrictions may get lifted..
It looks like it's a much needed lazy day here today once I've got onto ny ISP about my slow speeds, I should be getting 900 M<bps down and 400 Mbps up, the down is currently a ninth of that, the ups about a quarter and on a new modem too..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
This weekends rain is the first significant bit of rain we've had since late last October, it's good getting it, I'd prefer it fine though, hopefully it will go a little tpward easing the water restrictions we've had in place since nefore christmas.. This old fella will be stopping inside today and updating the laptops, this desktop updated yesterday morning, so I'd best do the laptops or they'll get forgotten about and want to restart next time I use them, so much for a lazy sunday..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I'm enjoying having a mild autumn thus far, the downside is once winter arrives it'll likely happen overnight, we'll get a good dump of snow over on Mt Ruapehu and winter will be here, like a lot of folk I'm maling the best of the mild autumn given our current world crisis.. I haven't updated either laptop as yet and still deciding whether to update one now or go sit in the sun with a coffee, the sun is winning at present, lol..
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Well, shoppings done and put away for another week, I got given a ride to the shops seeing it's a wet day, that got me home and out of the rain a bit quicker than going on my mobility scooter, walking round the shop is hard work these days so I'm glad there's no chores to be done today.. I'm just enjoying a break and a coffee at present..
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It looks like it'll be a quiet day here now the dishes and washing are done, hopefully this old fella can get a poppa nap after lunch, there's been a few late nights and early starts here of late, so feeling a little tired this morning..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
We had our first good frost this morning, it made getting up rather difficult, especially as I had to be up by 6.00 a.m. as usual, luckily I'd left the heateron overnight which made things a little easier, it's now 9.15 and the heaters still on, hopefully seeing it's a sunny day it will hopefully warm up shortly and the aches and pains will ease up.. I still haven't updated the laptops, they culd be todays chores I think, after I've had my coffee of course..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
I thought winter may hit us with a thud again, this morning was the third frost in a row, up until late last week we'd had a nice mild autumn, this week started and we got a frosty start to the week, I hope the rest of winter is a bit milder, that or I inherit a house somewhere warmer and get the money to be able to get there, lol..
I still can't get used to how quiet it is with having our lockdown still partially in effect, there's very little traffic about and still no flights in or out of any cities here, our airline must be losing a lot of money now after not being in the air for over 8 weeks, the only flights that have happened since the lockdown started was a few flights from overseas bringing folk home after they got stuck overseas while on holiday or doing business trips, here's hoping the world gets back to some kind of normal again soon..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
This Covid 19 seems to have tipped the world on their ears and making life a lot different and more difficult all round, here's hoping that the scientists find both a cure and a vaccine for it soon, it's had me thinking we should make the most of what freedons we have, and thankful we're still here to see it through, things will return to normal, I'm not sure what that normalwill be as yet, but we are here and we can make the most of each day as they come.. I'll be getting out in the sun shortly and taking a short walk in the fresh air before getting some more work done, the nights here may be cold, but the days are fine, I'll be out to enjoy for a wile..
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Morena everyone, I hope you have a good day..
It's sunday morning and I've been up and online since 6.00 a.m. this morning, a friend is begind on his work because of the Covid 19, so I've been working remotely from home trying to help get him caught up a bit, luckily we're slowly winning, we should be caught up in another week or so.. We had 5 weeks at level 4 which meant few businesses were working, it's taken 3 weeks of 16 hour days to get through a lot of the work we were behind on, now the lights at the end of the tunnel..
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