A STRAIGHT TALKING NEW ZEALAND LIFESTYLE BLOG

May 15, 2013

June 2020: Life Update

Hi De Hi Campers…goodbye June…I’m looking forward to the second half of this year a lot!

June 2020: Life Update

Places I’ve Visited and Things I’ve Done this Month

Lovely walks along to the beach to clear the foggy head…

June 2020: Life Update

June 2020: Life Update

…I finally went to back to work…I was greeted to a glorious sunrise over a million cones and was able to lovingly stroke my double screens…

June 2020: Life Update

…I could marry my double screens…spot the accountant…

June 2020: Life Update

…and of course a Brunch Date!

Have tried out a few food options at Commercial Bay which is the new shopping development which opened in Downtown Auckland this month…the food is a bit hit and miss if I’m honest…and expensive…

June 2020: Life Update

…I found a new love…mustard sauce…bloody hell it was good…

June 2020: Life Update

…vegan doughnuts where extremely tasty from Tart Bakery.

June 2020: Life Update

I’ve had a few medical appointments this month and was lucky enough to wander through the Auckland Winter Gardens…

June 2020: Life Update

…and Auckland Museum; checking out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition which I used to visit in London.  Go and check it out as it’s free and now extended; the photography is stunning.

June 2020: Life Update

June 2020: Life Update

We had a family weekend away to Rotorua…what do you do when you can’t leave New Zealand…you go out exploring your back yard…

June 2020: Life Update

…it was 16 years between visits and the smell…well, it still smells.  We did the Redwood nighttime walk which was great if you liked heights which I don’t…

June 2020: Life Update

June 2020: Life Update

…while Lisa and Dad went on the Canopy Tree Zipline Tour…mama and I went on a lovely bush walk to look at waterfalls…

June 2020: Life Update

…much more to my liking…

June 2020: Life Update

…and we had a look at a few shops and helped the local economy.

Lime milkshakes…getting my calcium hit the Kiwi way…

June 2020: Life Update

…and stopping for my favourite photo stop in the whole of New Zealand!/travel/tirau-new-zealand-corrugated-iron-heaven/

June 2020: Life Update

Oh yeah…to the person that left their car unlocked in Matamata…apologies for trying to sit in your car…I got slightly disoriented and opened the door and was starting to sit and realised that a) my family weren’t in the car and b) neither was my pillow…I was trying to sit in the car next door to ours…my dad watched me do this!

June 2020: Life Update

Life Things

The last few months were pretty rough for various reasons (am sure a lot of folks are feeling like this) but am looking forward to the next 6 months; they won’t be easy however am looking forward to new adventures, whatever they may entail.  One day I may write a blog post about my Covid 19 isolation experience, it was a doozy on so many levels…right now, not a chance in hell!

Health Update

I had a half colonoscopy the last week of June without any drugs…it was a different experience to my normal colonoscopy procedures however it wasn’t too bad.  The procedure did play on my nerves…you know, would all the poo come out from the suppositories that were squirted up my bottom…they did a pretty good job but hot damn, it was a different experience from my normal liquid laxatives.

June 2020: Life Update

Just waiting for some results and will have a full colonoscopy early next year to check on my whole colon.

June 2020: Life Update

The staff in the gastro department at Middlemore Hospital were fantastic; called me to confirm on Monday and was having the procedure on Friday of the same week…on the public system.  And I’m lucky to live in Auckland where the wait for a colonoscopy can be done quickly unlike the lower South Island, where it seems to be an utter disaster even after promises of change from the current government.

Plans for July 2020

Move…have guests…and who knows what else!

June 2020: Life Update

^^Hopefully this carpet will be in my new home in July!

xx

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