Day 7 (Wednesday 1 April)

April fools day! (If only this was an April Fools joke!) We have been in lockdown for a week already!

While reflecting on the first week of New Zealand's lockdown I realised we have a whole new vocabulary. We now talk about 'staying in our bubbles', 'self isolating', 'flattening the curve', 'physical distancing', 'clusters', 'community transmission', 'alert levels', essential and non essential businesses and of course 'lockdown'.  I started to think about this because Joel told us yesterday that Nikau was telling his brothers they couldn't interrupt Mummy because she was on a 'conference call'. (i.e. she was live teaching.)  He said a couple of weeks ago Nikau wouldn't have even known that conference calls existed. It's a brave new world when a 5 year old understands what a conference call is.

I went for my daily walk this morning; there are not nearly as many people out in the morning as in the afternoon. While I was out walking Dad video called me, he's getting pretty good at keeping in touch now and is obviously enjoying being able to see us as well as talk to us.

I've managed to cross something off our list today. I have mowed the lawns, both back and front.

Work is progressing on the bathroom renovations. Geoff always seems to think he hasn't achieved enough in his day's work. I keep telling him there's no hurry, we still have a few weeks to fill in.😊

Today's total cases 708.

What I am thankful for today: We have survived the first week of lockdown and seem to be coping pretty well with our new reality.

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