The Queen on the other hand lifted my spirits and made all the other royals look like amateurs with her speech from Windsor Castle.
I loved that it was only the fifth time in her reign she had given a special address.
She looked so regal (goes without saying) in her green dress, pearls and brooch.
I told the kids how her and her sister recorded a message for the children of London in 1940 as they prepared to be shipped off to the countryside in the Blitz.
I loved that this time she ended by saying "we will meet again".
Jacinda has also risen to even greater heights in my mind during Week 3.
That thing about Australians demanding to be annexed by New Zealand and renamed the Big Island has been floating around since the start of lockdown, but how great was it when The Washington Post said, "New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve. It's squashing it."
Jacinda's Easter-Bunny-as-essential-worker message will also go down in history, even Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell recognising it as a master stroke.
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Apart from the Queen and Jacinda, my other favourites are the Buchanans of Wellington.
How good is their Family Lockdown Boogie. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-gUXggpxDn/
And how funny is the guy called Max who wrote Ashley Bloomfield (A Love Song).
An isolation jam about Max wanting to join Ashley's bubble, I burned a pot of sushi rice watching it, I got so distracted.
Did you know people in northern India are able to see the Himalayas for the first time in a generation? Loving that no-pollution buzz, too.
And how cool that masks are becoming de rigueur.
I lived in Japan for six years and already think masks are the bomb. I don't care what the science says, if you're riding a train packed full of people, I'd much rather be wearing a mask than not when someone coughs in my face.
So, the week felt near-to-complete when a friend dropped three masks she had sewed in our letterbox.
She's a professional pattern designer and has been making them for all her friends.
