Hi Team,
Welcome to this week’s Bulletin.
We note that March 2025 is slightly different from March 2019.
I mentioned on Tuesday evening that it was 5 years to the day since New Zealand was placed in Covid Lockdown.
The excerpt below is from the Bulletin circulated on the 29th March 2019.
I trust that you are all doing OK in your new found incarceration. The good news is that it is only day 3 of home detention and we have been advised that we still have a number of weeks to perfect the art. It was good to chat briefly with everybody last week and those conversations left me satisfied that everybody was in good heart and in good spirits.
To be fair I enjoyed the ringing around as it got me out of folding towels, vacuuming and doing other inane indoor chores at the behest of Rosanna.
Lee-Ann and Hamish were clearly in good spirits (refer her Facebook page). If you keep up that pace, you will run out of wine.
Stuart Maclean was already bored, however he had pre-empted lock down by starting early on return from his enjoyable weekend in Australia at the Melbourne Grand Prix.
Hanna was fed up with Steve McLean because she claimed that Steve was cheating at cards.
Jean Macnicol was enjoying a little bit of peace as Colin had gone bush with his gun to do some shooting, although I don’t why as the Supermarkets are still open.
Bruce Boivin missed my first call as his newly implemented exercise regime is based on leaving his phone at the other end of the house so that he can exhaust himself sprinting to the phone when it rings.
Ralph and Betty are helping ‘Donald’ out while stranded in Washington DC but doing OK.
Ron Mackersy is terrorising Tarras apparently with a chain saw, and he has also constructed a putting green outside his front door, a simple Par 13 apparently.
When I explained to Brian Macpherson that I was phoning with a pastoral care call, he thought he was receiving a call from his Minister.
Ken Fox, a little like Stuart, was in day 9 of his post international travel isolation.
Chris Taylor was suffering from the early symptoms of golf withdrawal.
Tony Robins had supplemented his panic buying with gin and chocolates.
My brief chat with Mayor Jim Boult confirmed that he is extremely busy but coping with the pressures of this event on our community.
Great night last Tuesday with a large turnout including 3 guests from Australia.
We had the pleasure of a humorous presentation from PHF Philip “Scoop” Chandler, it was good to host Scoop and Tracey Roxburgh for the evening.
Scoop regaled us with stories from his 40 years in Queenstown with the Mountain Scene.
We formally welcomed MJ Kooger into the Queenstown Rotary Club. MJ has been attending for a few weeks and has also been a willing volunteer at various events.
MJ has been a Rotarian in Auckland so we are pleased that she has joined with us. Welcome MJ, the invoice is on the way !!!.
Julie Forde, provided 2 Bottles of Wine for auction, and these were purchased for $100.00 for the benefit of the Rotary Foundation.
Thank you Julie for your generosity, and also thank you to Simon for your successful bid, don’t drink it all at once.
Look forward to seeing you all at Rotary on Tuesday, noting that we cant use Lockdown as an excuse !!
Cheers
Ross
