imhilien: Tea (Tea)
2023-01-28 03:49 pm
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Too much rain...

Yesterday, Auckland had so much torrential rain that a State of Emergency was declared. Two people died and one person is missing. Parts of West Auckland flooded to the point that Search and Rescue needed a kayak to go from door to door in a neighbourhood. The airport was flooded and had to close and today only the domestic terminal is open.

There was supposed to be an Elton John concert last night but that was cancelled and so is tonight's concert. Today is fine but tonight around midnight we're supposed to have round two of Rain, ugh.

I'm ok, the kitchen roof leaked yesterday but it's fine now. It's been a day for eating chocolate, though!
imhilien: Rainbow (Keep Calm)
2021-09-25 05:07 pm

A bit more freedom

Well, Auckland has progressed to a Level 3 lockdown, which is the same as Level 4 but now you can get takeaways! But don't be like the guy who tried to smuggle money and a car boot full of KFC across the regional border. You can just imagine the conversation:

Drug Lord: I want some of the good stuff!
Underling: Contraband, boss?
Drug Lord: No, KFC, you fool! I've had a month with no takeaways!
Underling: Ok, boss.

Bookstores are open which means you can order books online and get it couriered, so I ordered a Victorian-era novel about a dictionary being put together and the words that were being left out (hint: they're connected to women's lives in some way). It didn't take long to arrive and it's nice to read an actual new book again (I have e-books but they're not the same).

I binge watched the final season of Lucifer but while I like the actual final ending, I didn't like some of the pot holes and plot holes the show took to get there. OK, they were working in a pandemic so you have to give them some leeway, but still, I ended up writing some fix-it fan fiction to make me feel better.

The weather has been wild the last few days but today was nice and I went for a walk.


imhilien: New Zealand (New Zealand)
2021-09-01 05:11 pm

Lockdown news

Well, Auckland is still in a strict lockdown for the next fortnight (at least?), but the rest of the country is in a more relaxed lockdown. This means you can get takeaways now... and apparently there have been long queues outside some takeaway places.

[Entertains fond daydream where I go to the regions border and send off some drones to fetch pizza for me. Yes, I miss pizza, how did you guess?]

There was a big thunderstorm on Monday afternoon and I think the house shook a bit at one point. It rained through the night and caused flooding in West Auckland. The weather is more peaceful today and I went for a walk around the block.
imhilien: New Zealand (New Zealand)
2021-08-18 04:08 pm
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Level 4 lockdown

So yesterday started off straight forward. I went to a monthly meeting of the Handweavers Guild (I used to be the secretary there) where someone gave a talk with photos about going to a weaving camp down at Turangi, next to Lake Taupo. Some beautiful photos of the lake and of the weaving examples shown, some of it really great. Then in the afternoon I had to go to the dentist for a routine clean and check (nothing bad found so that was good). 

Afterwards I went to a cafe to calm down after Dentist fun, where I found out that Auckland and nearby Coromandel region was to go into a level 4 Covid lockdown from midnight for a week, because of community cases found, possibly the dangerous Delta variant. Level 4 is the strictest lockdown where you all stay home and only places like the supermarkets and pharmacy are open. Exercise is permitted as long as you don't go too far from your neighbourhood. So with mask on I headed to some shops to get last minute stuffs.

I also decided to treat myself to some books and went and bought the next two books in the 'Shadow and Bone' trilogy after having seen the first season / book on Netflix. Ben Barnes, gosh, you've turned into Hot Evil guy though I remember you as so dashing and earnest in that Prince Caspian movie some years ago. I didn't have many library books at home but for reasons I couldn't go to a library yesterday.

Today it was revealed it is the Delta variant traced back to New South Wales in Australia, where they're struggling to deal with covid, poor chaps. I think they had 400 new cases in a day just recently. We don't want that here.
imhilien: Rainbow (Keep Calm)
2018-04-14 04:45 pm

Bad week...

Wow, what a week. On Tuesday night there was a wild storm in Auckland that knocked down trees and powerlines, so a quarter of Auckland was left without power. I was without power for two days (back on now, phew). The storm sounded like a jet engine at times and there must have been a mini-tornado through the neighbourhood; trees came down and some kids pink paddling pool ended up in my garden (!). At the end of the street there is a trampoline that was tossed into the neighbours yard like it weighed nothing, eep.

Yesterday I was glad to get out of the house and treated myself to go and see 'Ready Player One' at the movies - as a geeky child of the '80's, I was the target audience. The movie was different in a lot of ways from the book but I was ok with that. The villain was played by the actor who was the villain in 'Rogue One' - there was a lot of good ham and cheese in his performance and I chuckled when he made a Star Wars reference. Will hopefully see the film again on the big screen.

Today it's that time of the month, ugh. *reaches for more chocolate*