Today is the seventh day of the full lockdown in New Zealand due to Covid-19 (the corona virus). The weather is beautiful, but we have to sit at home. Only now I realize what a privilege it is to be able to go where we want. We usually think it is normal, or rather we […]
New Zealand is going into a lockdown in less than two hours. We all will have to stay at home for at least four weeks. Yet there will be electricity, running water, food etc. There are those people that will not be at home, they will be providing all those services and risking their health, […]
There ain’t no grave can hold my body down There ain’t no grave can hold my body down When I hear that trumpet sound I’m gonna rise right out of the ground Ain’t no grave can hold my body down Well, look way down the river, what do you think I see? I see a […]
I love evening dives. People leave, it is quiet both above and below water. Last Saturday we were thinking about going sailing. Ivana was also quite keen to go for a dive so it took priority. It was the first time since our trip to Bali she wanted to dive our cooler temperate waters. What […]
There is that text in Hebrew Bible which is a sort of commentary to one of the Ten Commandments: “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you […]
We usually party and drink on Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s good to party, it’s even better to have a good drink with good friends. Perhaps it is the best, especially in these days, to remind ourselves who Saint Patrick was. Let’s do it through his quite famous prayer called Saint Patrick’s Breastplate: I bind unto […]