2020 VISION

I wish that we'd had an ability to foresee what 2020 was going to bring when we made our arrangements for this year.

The Old Girl elected to work in Wellington for her last year of work. We took a contract on an apartment for a year and I booked air travel each month through to December with the intention of spending two weeks of each month in Wellington.

Now that's turning to shit with the Coronavirus/Covid-19 thing disrupting everyones plans.
The Old Girl's work is moving to having everyone work from home in the short term (couple of months) with the possibility that this will go on for the whole year. She doesn't want to be in isolation in Wellington so will work from up north instead where there is a better office set-up in our study and with the added bonus of me being there. She's flying up here next week.

Air New Zealand is changing and cancelling flights galore and already my flight arrangements for April and May have been cancelled. I expect that the same will apply to the following months as well as this pandemic continues. The cancellations have given me credits to use on future flights rather than a refund. This is annoying but I'm glad that I got super-cheap flights so the loss, if any, won't be great.

We'll have an empty apartment in Wellington until the end of the year though. This costs us $700 a week so we'll see if we can sub-let it to recoup some money otherwise it'll be just an expensive bolthole or a place for friends and family to use when and if they visit Wellington this year.

But, as I said to The Old Girl this morning, as long as we have our health nothing else matters.