Monthly Archives: April 2020

Mana Marina (near Wellington) Sunday 5 April 2020 It’s always a welcome surprise … the extra hour you gain each year from turning the clocks back at the end of Daylight Saving.  The effect might only last half a day, but the extra hour in bed, or doing whatever, is certainly a better option toContinue reading “An Extra Hour Today”

Mana Marina (near Wellington) Saturday 4 April 2020 It was a simply gorgeous day today.  Or at least it might have been. Under normal circumstances, boats would be coming and going.  Families would be playing on the beach beyond the breakwater and there’d be the noise of fun and activity. But of course, like everywhereContinue reading “It Might Have Been a Gorgeous Day”

Mana Marina (near Wellington) Friday 3 April 2020 The big news today is that I started the motor, untied the mooring lines and went for a “voyage”.  It was a very short voyage.  Probably too short even for the GPS tracker to even pick it up … but here I am neatly tucked up inContinue reading “Same Postcode – Different Address”

Mana Marina (near Wellington) Thursday 2 April 2020 My friend Murray asked me the other day … “Are you on WhatsApp? … or maybe we could Skype?”  “I’ve got WhatsApp on my phone, but I could Messenger you on the computer”, I said “Is that the same as FaceTiming?”, I asked “Not sure”, said Murray,Continue reading “Communications Overload”

Mana Marina (near Wellington) Wednesday 1 April 2020 It’s strange, that a walk down the road, little more than 1 km, to replace an empty gas bottle, should be considered my highlight of the day. But such is the nature of social isolation. We have two gas bottles on board.  Solely for cooking, and whenContinue reading “Cooking With Gas”