Posts by Paul Campbell
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Not all pedestrians can hear you, nor see you even without headphones - you have to assume that none of us can see or hear you. We all can't jump out of your way either - I broke my achilles a few years ago, my reaction to hearing a bell behind me is to make no sudden moves, not to jump out of the way.
Having said that I'm all for sharing the footpath, but carefully, respectfully, please don't treat pedestrians the way that drivers treat you
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I want to second SOS Business - https://sosbusiness.nz/ - we've bought coupons for all the local places we love - kind of sad to see our Post Office on that list .....
We got caught half-way moved, locked down in a house full of boxes (the fridge and the bed hadn't been moved yet), we've actually put off the rest of the move for a few weeks (more falling over boxes) and under level 3 have decided to hire local people to do the painting and wiring we would otherwise have waited and done a year or two down the line.
If you have something you were planning on doing some time now's the time to spend a bit of money (if you can) to help bootstrap our economy up and help get it up and running again
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OK, best thing ever ....
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A reminder that PA needs money to operate, I suspect that Russell's been carry the load as it has quietened down, and after today's news that's likely harder for him - I'd like to suggest that old timers who have found themselves back again hit that "supporter" button above
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I'm rather enjoying this little polemic:
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So far almost all of our cases have been imported, most directly into 2 weeks quarantine - I suspect that that messes with how it changes here (hopefully to our advantage) - it's possible that a lot of the rise in numbers we're seeing right now have been generated by the rises in the countries those people came from.
We've been told not to expect the numbers to really turn for a couple of weeks and to not read too much into the recent numbers - it's likely to get worse before it better
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Linger: thanks for that, I spent the previous 2 weeks talking my son down from his planned trip to Japan (he had been in the Jet program for 2 years there), luckily we did finally manage to convince him
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Went out for a walk today, more people walking in the neighbourhood than usual, people carefully keeping distance, walking into the street - but absolutely everyone said "hi!" and smiled
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I normally work at home, have done so for most of the time since my son was born (he's 29). This is all very weird - all these people are going home, finding wonderful things there - I feel quite left out - wish I could take time off to join everyone.
Meanwhile we're in the middle of moving house (the kids are gone, this one deserves a bigger family in it), the movers were coming on Friday, much of my office is already there, we're stuck in a house full of boxes for a month. We're also carrying a bridging loan, hoping the market wont crash while we're holding the baby.
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Hard News: "OK Boomer" wins Public…,
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