Today, while my sore throat morphs into a cough, I’m resting up, mainly reading, dozing and answering urgent last minute calls from our lawyer about the house we’re selling. 🤞🏼

@val Thanks. I'm doing OK. There's been a fair bit of dozing off today… 😀

Good to hear! Hope you can continue to relax, and take necessary precautions, although I hope the sale goes through.

@odd Thanks. The sale was declared 'unconditional' yesterday (which means it's gone through). Settlement is in 2 weeks. Once the money's in the bank then we can be sure it's really done.

@dejus 7 years ago when we left Wellington we bought a second house at Ōtaki that we rented out. It's that second house we've just sold. Retirement savings…

aha. Good plan. Sometimes I wish we had done that when we started the RV lifestyle, but we opted to get a nicer motorhome instead. Not exactly the most sensible choice.

I hope it is just a cold... New Zealand is having another Covid surge right now.

@dejus The crazy housing market here has made us a very tidy profit. I feel good though that we offered high-quality rental housing at a modest price to folks who needed it. Tried hard to be good landladies (hmmm — we need a gender neutral term for that role).

@billbennettnz My 2 tests so far have been negative but I'll test again tomorrow. Meanwhile I'm actually pretty sick — my days consist of read, nap, pee, cough, have a cuppa, repeat, with occasional reluctant bites of food.

@billbennettnz Plus, my brain power is at about 5%, give or take a couple of percentage points.

@jayeless @danielpunkass Thank you. I'm definitely fed up with this!

Oh gosh, you don’t sound well? I hope that you turn the corner soon. 🤗

I'm no doctor, but I'm certain I had Covid last year even though every test I did was negative. Whatever you do have... take care... I look forward to see more of your wonderful photos when you are back outdoors.

nice. Yeah, if we ever move back to NZ (and yes, that's something we're considering) we may find it hard to find a place we can afford.

@crossingthethreshold Thanks. Pretty sure that corner was turned overnight. Whew!

@billbennettnz I've just been looking at authoritative web pages that compare Cold, Flu and Covid symptoms and my conclusion is: I've definitely been really sick. I'll do another RAT test today. I seem to be on the mend now, thank goodness.

@dejus Prices are still dropping. We sold for $200,000 less than the identical place over the road that sold 18 months ago.

I didn't realize prices were dropping. Finally correcting the crazy market?