A wedding

We met a friend for coffee at 8am, as she had a zoom meeting at 10am.  It was an early start after our late night, but great to catch up with her and her news.

On the way home we stopped in St Heliers so I could collect a postal redirection form for Mum’s post. She currently has a letterbox outside her independent villa but, from Monday, when she will have moved to a Serviced Apartment inside the village centre building, her post will need to be delivered to the reception desk, which will pass it on to her. I had tried to fill in the form online, but there’s no facility for entering the expiry date of an expired passport, which is required for ID, so it was back to pen and paper. After my Pilates course I went back to the post office to deposit the form and, hopefully, get the redirection under way.

We put up the weekend’s open home signs on our way to friends for a catch up. As we pulled up at the side of Bellevue Reserve I noticed a wedding was about to take place in the park, so decided it would make a good blip.  It was a small wedding and the guests were dressed in an eclectic way, but they were all smiling and the bride was in tears, so I surmised it was a happy occasion.

We had a lovely catch up with our friends - the ones who cycled the Alps to Ocean with us.  We took nibbles, drinks and pudding, they provided more drinks and a delicious Thai curry.  After dinner we played a couple of rounds of Mexican Train Dominoes, which was great fun.

Today there are 20,989 new community cases, with 7,172 of those in Auckland. Hospitalisations have risen to 856, with 601 of those in Auckland, and there are now 20 people in intensive care. Seven people died with Covid-19 overnight, the highest number of deaths reported in a single day since the start of the pandemic.