Lockdown Reprised — Plus Some Pandemic-Themed Reads

Covid lockdown or the writing life — the shutters look much the same.

Well, here we are again: back in level 4 lockdown approximately 15 months after we exited it in 2020, with the Covid-19 Delta strain—not unlike a malevolent genie—out of its bottle and ‘out there’ in our NZ community. :-/

In some ways, given Delta’s degree of infectiousness (I think that’s a word) and the travel bubble with Australia, its arrival in the NZ community was probably only a matter of when, not if.

Having watched th...