Reading tea leaves
Lockdown ennui is starting to set in and I thought about reading tea leaves to get a steer on what Cabinet might […]
Tag: coronavirus
How is a virus like a firework?
There are some key descriptors that tell you the potential of a virus, like COVID-19, to spread. I thought I would have […]
Accursed Tourists
This morning, Chris and I provided feedback to the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) on their Freedom Camping Bylaw. This is the […]
NZ on the leaderboards
I feel it will be hard to top yesterday’s picture (and no, I don’t plan to be taking all my clothes off […]
UK trumps Israel
Today’s question is, why is there such a difference between the state of COVID infections in the United Kingdom and Israel? This […]
Singing as meditation
Spring is springing? spronging?, sprunging? in Gibbston, despite Level 4 lockdown. Plants pay no attention to human lockdowns. In fact, spring is […]
Back to deep breathing
I wake up on day 2 of our new lockdown and listen to the quiet. It is very very quiet, like when […]
The cage gilding fell off
Well, bugger. We knew delta variant was likely to ‘get in’ to New Zealand, we knew that a rapid lockdown was the […]
Birds in a gilded cage?
This week the New Zealand news headlines featured the IPCC climate change report and the Skegg report on reopening of Fortress New […]
Beating biases
This week my brain has kept on trying to warp my perception of English COVID figures. When Boris threw English doors to […]