A 90th Birthday Party

It’s been a beautiful autumnal day - blue sky, sunshine, warm temperatures. After breakfast we cycled into central Auckland and back to get some exercise.  Back home it was a quick shower and change, then across the road to pick Mum up and head off to my aunt’s 90th birthday party. We spent most of the afternoon outside in the sunshine.  It was lovely to catch up with family whom we haven’t seen for ages, and just a really lovely celebration.

My aunt and her brother and sister (my Mum) must have good genes, as all three of them are now in their nineties.

The blip is a photo of the three of them - Mum on the left (95 in July), uncle in the middle (just turned 93) and the birthday girl on the right (90 today).

There are 10,239 new community cases today and 848 people in hospital, including 28 in intensive care. There were 4 more deaths, bringing the total number of people in New Zealand who have died with Covid-19 to 258, and the seven-day rolling average to 12.