Moments and thoughts captured and shared in photos and poetry.

Moments in Lockdown

MY COVID POEM BY VIOLET&nbsp;YOUNG Cromwell Primary School We need a brew That will fix this awful flu We get down and blue If we have the covid flu It's the worst You'll feel like you've been cursed Jacinda Adern is feeling some concern Make sure you get your vaccination turn

Violet wrote this in response to reading George's Marvellous Medicine.&nbsp;

The idea of my piwakawaka (fantail) was inspired by my Dad. He calls me piwakawaka and so I thought, how could I make a fantail? I made it out of sheep wool which is an eco-friendly material. I am so happy with the way it has turned out and I am so thankful for my Mum who helped me with it. Paige Adams, The Terrace Primary School.

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Maggie is the horse. Helene Wylie from the Maniototo

Lockdown Lambs in the Teviot Valley - Veronika Sim

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Today was a beautiful day jumping around on the tramp. I was on the tramp with Milly and I was having so much fun. We were pouncing around then I stopped pouncing to go and have a drink. I didn't come back and Milly was wondering&nbsp;where I was. I am so excited to play minecraft for the first time at home. Ethan Everett Cromwell Primary School

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To the Clyde Lookout and Back. Last day at level two smiles. Wattle, blossom, bees, and pussy willow. Last leaf on the tree.

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A Central Otago Libraries eBook 2021

Production line @ the art gallery - Anya &amp; Maia Randall

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Souffle success in Cromwell - Aurora Schmale

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An excerpt from How Covid19 Spread.

By Emily Smith Cromwell Primary School To stay safe from Covid19 stay at home and keep yourself safe or if you're going somewhere wear a mask and keep two metres away from people walking or biking past you. Even though you’re in level four or other levels, you still can go out to exercise your body and your mind.

A zentangle picture of a quail from a template by Ben Kwok.  A great mindfulness activity during lockdown.&nbsp;Marisa Braun

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Clay! Wednesday mornings therapy - Kathi McLean

Lockdown, the pandemic, August/September 2021

Having a baby was the most intensely disruptive event of my life. Not the birth but what came after. My baby wasn’t the regular type no long sleeps no separation from his mum. He came everywhere filling my world, expanding out of proportion to his size. It was wonderful and horrible. It stretched our love thin, but it always held, giving just enough for you, me, and him. It was almost a year before I accepted the changes this baby had wrought in my life. Much like here, now, mid-pandemic, early-Delta, with our lives rotated 180 degrees. Adaptations have sprung into being masks, social distancing, school and work from home, click and collecting, more time, less time, relaxing, working more hours, essential work, filling our lives with sourdough loaves, finding new ways to occupy our kids, keeping to the rules, or not, we’re all in this together.

I scream into my pillow when it all gets too much and make blueberry cake for your birthday;&nbsp; you thank me like your life depends on it. Our bubble includes your parents, just in case.&nbsp;&nbsp; The teenager takes to this new life like he was born to it. In the garden daffodils bunch&nbsp; hyacinths shake their perfumed heads tulips flounce into being hellbores burst from the soil trilliums flick white tips in the wind blossom seems to have sifted out of nowhere to cover the apricot tree. A paddock away the Mata Au is full of life, new leaves floating past like tiny electric boats high on the outdoors catkins festoon the willows people flock along the tracks like sheep seeing an open gate. We escape daily&nbsp; to breathe fast moving air come from the Antarctic on a southerly breeze to stretch our static limbs beside the always moving river to feel fresh sunlight to rest our eyes on Kōpūwai white-flanked with spring snow to hear the squeak and sough of trees moving in the wind&nbsp; turning to each other eyes sparkling with laughter over something you said resetting ourselves, not returning to normal.

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Smoko time for Mum, Grandma, Addison, and bike guide Fergus. Leading the team around the airport dam.

Safety first with Ferg, at the waterfall steps at the top of Brandy Hill.

My Lockdown project- a pocket wall hanging for my Aussie granddaughter to put her soft toys, books in. Barb Hall

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Sorting schoolday photos from 1946, knitting, and walking locally. Meredith

Listen to the Busy Bees @ the Clyde Bridge

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