Lianne Dalziel supplied this link on self-isolation. It is a very helpful site and I recommend that Tuesday Club readers have a look at it. https://covid19.govt.nz/isolation-and-care/how-to-self-isolate/#self-isolation-when-you-have-covid-19 Nobody seems to have answers to John’s query about … [Read more...]
A query about how to respond to the Omicron variant…
John Patterson wrote to me as a senior citizen. He has several questions he needs answering. Here they are and I would appreciate somebody assisting me to answer his very sensible queries. I will print the answers next week. Here they are: The omicron virus has arrived and apparently, it’s going … [Read more...]
John Patterson’s comments on Climate Change
Sorry I didn’t get to the Tuesday Club meeting to hear about climate change so these are just a few of my thoughts. I will be 85 in a couple of months’ time, so I supposed it’s my generation that’s buggered things up but I’m not sure how. We didn’t have rubbish like we have now, every Tuesday … [Read more...]
A sniper’s report from General Patterson:
John Patterson sent me this report from the trenches of Parklands: When I go out for a walk now everybody speaks to each other as they pass at the appropriate distance apart and people passing in a car wave, a police car passed me today and both the policemen waved. It’s like it was when we … [Read more...]
John Patterson’s” memory group”:
John Patterson is in a group of people who lived in the Crawcrook village, back in Geordie land in the UK. They are in regular contact with each other via the internet. I loved this story which went up in the past few days. It says a lot about communities: Following on from previous stories … [Read more...]
John Patterson heads back to Southland
John writes about his nostalgic journey around my old stamping grounds in Southland and Otago. Spent our first night in Dunedin after driving down from Christchurch on a very quiet SH1 very little traffic. I like Dunedin and it’s a long time since we were last there I just wonder how it would … [Read more...]