Day 30 Level 3 Lockdown Step 1

Not much excitement today. It was cold and grey but not wet. Mid-afternoon we went out for a short walk, partly to deliver some asparagus to my Mum and partly to give me some exercise and see how my leg coped.  Fortunately it wasn’t too difficult and didn’t hurt too much, so I think progress is being made.  It’s going to take quite a bit of work to get back to my previous fitness level, though.


As we walked along the road on the opposite side from where we live, we saw the house in the blip.  It’s obviously being renovated and has had the bottom part of its cladding removed, plus a lot of the internal supports.  It appeared to be held up by acrow props. We think it might be a leaky home, which is one where moisture gets between the outside of the house (the cladding) and the inside walls. Buildings that have a high risk of leaking were mostly built between the late 1980s and the mid-2000s, using plaster-style monolithic cladding systems. The exterior walls typically have an unbroken or smooth appearance.  It has caused a huge problem in New Zealand -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_homes_crisis.

There are 139 new community cases today – 136 in Auckland, two in the Waikato and one in Northland.