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Life in Lockdown New Zealand - Week 2

9/4/2020

 
Author & Photographer: Ellen Yule

D8. 2/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Time to harvest
 
This is the third season of harvest.
 
This little pepper plant on our balcony also struggled and eventually got through the Severe Tropical Cyclone Gita in March 2018.
 
Life is unpredictable.
 
Life is fruitful if enough time, water, sunshine and care is given.
 
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#stayhomenz   #bepatient   #homegrownvegetables  #plantlover  #DreamNowExperienceLater  #novazelanda  #viatgenovazelanda   #guianovazelanda   #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain  

Life is fruitful in New Zealand if enough time and care given, 2WAYS Tours


D9. 3/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Face mask crisis and solution
 
Global coronavirus pandemic
Global lockdowns
Global supply crisis of masks
Global desperation to protect front-line medical workers
 
Why shall we all compete with the limited orders of imported masks from China?
 
Why not make your own no-sew mask while waiting for the locally made masks?
 
Following “How to make a No-Sew Pleated Face Mask with Handkerchief and Hair Tie”
https://youtu.be/EAj12GKuAEk
 
I made my first face mask with a scarf and 2 hair ties. (Cotton handkerchief is too small). The hair ties can be adjusted easily to fit my ears.
 
It’s washable and reusable.
 
Give it a try.
 
#stayhomenz #facemask #resilience #buylocal #madeinnewzealand  #DreamNowExperienceLater  #novazelanda  #viatgenovazelanda #guianovazelanda  #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain  

DIY face mask by Elllen Yule, stay home save lives in New Zealand


​D10. 4/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Draw inside out
 
Time to clean up file folders in the office, in the garage, in the laptop and in the neck-top.
 
I found this DIY commemorative envelope I drew up to celebrate 800th anniversary of my hometown Chongqing when I was studying International Trade at university.
 
When I was 15, summer temperate was normally over 40°C in Chongqing, China.
 
I got a nasty skin problem on my head, itchy and painful.
 
My grandma boiled some fresh bitter melons to prepare a salad dish.
 
After washing my head with the liquid of bitter melons several times, I got cured.
 
So I drew two bitter melons with a blue fountain ink pen, added my “teen wisdom”: sometimes the more bitter the better.
 
And I submitted it to the newspaper that served for 200,000 people in the factory my parents worked.
 
That’s my first paid drawing (RMB5.00, equivalent to pocket money my parents gave me for a whole month back then).
 
Time fast forwarded.
 
I started to take sketching lessons and co-led a Travel Sketching group to Spain in April 2019.
 
Sketching is a journey for me to reflect, discover, connect with nature, other sketchers and myself...
 
What’s your draw-inside-out story?
 
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#stayhomenz  #drawing   #diyenvelopes   #travelsketching    #sketching   #urbansketchers #DreamNowExperienceLater #novazelanda #viatgenovazelanda #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain     ​#2waystoursketchnz

DIY commemorative envelope drawn by Ellen Yule, director of 2WAYS Tours New Zealand
Urban sketch by Ellen in New Zealand, 2WAYS Tours


D11. 5/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Drawing makes you smile
 
Why do you believe you cannot draw?
Graham Shaw shows how to prove you can.
 
https://youtu.be/7TXEZ4tP06c
 
Try it yourself like I did. Have fun!
 
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#stayhomenz #drawing #travelsketching #sketching #urbansketchers  #DreamNowExperienceLater #novazelanda #viatgenovazelanda #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain     #2waystoursketchnz

You can draw, sketch too in New Zealand, 2WAYS Tours


​D12. 6/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Birthday antipodes
 
Imagine...
your birthday 10 hours earlier
in a place opposite Catalonia, Spain
in lockdown without family and friends
 
No problem.
 
We prepare a birthday card, a birthday cake, and a birthday party via WhatsUp with our Catalan guest who is the birthday star today.
 
This is the way we care our guests and celebrate their special day in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
 
Happy birthday! Per molts anys! 生日快樂!
 
#stayhomenz  #permoltsanys   #visitauckland   #DreamNowExperienceLater  #novazelanda   #viatgenovazelanda   #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain     #2waystoursketchnz

Birthday party for our Catalan traveller in New Zealand, 2WAYS Tours


D13. 7/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Health
 
Sense salut física i mental
No hi ha salut social i financera. (I’m learning Catalan.)

Without physical and mental health
there's no social and financial health.
 
Today I took my second walk on the beach close to home since the confinement started.
 
To the HEALTH of each of us
 
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#stayhomenz #WorldHealthDay #salut #covid19nz #visitauckland   #DreamNowExperienceLater #novazelanda #viatgenovazelanda #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain     #2waystoursketchnz

Physical, mental, social and financial health in New Zealand, 2WAYS Tours


D14. 8/04/2020 Life in Lockdown - Keep distance, save kauri trees
 
Why the New Zealand native Kauri trees are dying?
 
Because a disease called Kauri Dieback is killing them.
 
Because people’s movement spreads the killing disease.
 
I did a quick sketching of this 800-year-old Kauri a week before the lockdown.
 
Giving enough distance and time, hope these living giant trees heal and recovery well...
 
...we may visit them, hug them again one day.
 
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#stayhomenz #travelsketching #kauri  #sustainabletravel #visitauckland   #DreamNowExperienceLater  #novazelanda  #viatgenovazelanda  #2waysnz   #2ways_tours_nz_spain     #2waystoursketchnz

Keep distance and sketch, protect kauri trees in New Zealand, 2WAYS Tours
hug kauri trees in New Zealand, 2WAYS guided Tours

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    At 2WAYS, Amelia (Catalan New Zealander) and Ellen(Chinese Kiwi) are creators and directors for educational cultural culinary luxury holiday tours in New Zealand and Spain since 2002.

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