Daffodil Bulbs
Lyttelton Rotary has a few quality Hadstock Daffodil bulbs left for sale. There is a choice of 2 types: Daffodils and Jonquils at a cost of $10.00 for 10 bulbs. They would appreciate fellow Rotary clubs supporting the sale of these for our project.
They do need to be in the ground by mid-May at the latest so you can look forward to lovely spring flowers this coming season. Orders of how many bags you would like can be emailed directly to Barry Toomey at batoomey57@gmail.com or you can phone him on (027) 479 9678.
On receiving your order he will direct you to the payment method. The Club will get them delivered to either your Club or to you as soon as lockdown allows.
Oregon
Liz sent through this update about Oregon from Neville.
One of Neville’s past neighbours worked on Meridian Energies Project Aqua and the underground tunnels in Auckland. His engineering design expertise is expensive holes and he is currently back living in Oregon USA. He wrote the following to Neville recently which he found interesting as their population is similar to New Zealand
Oregon is under a ‘stay at home’ scenario which is quite a bit more relaxed than NZ’s total lockdown. Construction is generally continuing and you can still purchase home improvement, gardening & auto parts etc. Often you can order by phone and the shop will deliver to the kerb. Other places are almost ‘business as usual’ with about half the folks wearing masks and the other acting as if nothing has changed.
With a population of 4-million, Oregon has been pretty consistently recording 50 to 70 new confirmed cases and two to four deaths each day. Under the current behavioural restrictions, he suspects that they will continue this trend all summer long.
Neville feels that they are probably about the equivalent of our Level 3.
Funny Lockdown Video Clip
“The NZ New Zealand Police started the NZ Creative Genius series of videos produced by talented people from around the country. This Self-Isolation for Beginners clip was filmed by Hamish McCormick of Wellington.
Click here to access it.”