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#TousEnTerrasse or "everyone on terraces" was the French motto on Wednesday as cafés and restaurants reopened their outdoor spaces for the first time in almost seven months, to the delight of coffee-drinkers and bistro-goers. "Happiness!" tweeted Murielle Pinard, a financial analyst in Meudon, as she sat for her first non-home cooked meal in months with a friend. The French government has opted for a cautious, step-by-step reopening to avoid a resurgence of COVID-19 while giving the country ba...

Survival of the fittest: More people retraining and upskilling post-lockdown 2 May, 2021 01:00 AM 4 minutes to read Tertiary enrolments are on the rise post lockdown. Photo / Getty Images Jimi Hunt graduated with a bachelor of management studies earlier this month - and it only took him 20 years to get there. Hunt used to travel the world as an ambassador and public speaker for mental health and wellbeing but border closures put a stop to that. He has lived most of his life i...

Agoraphobic artist turning life around post-lockdown with charcoal talent 25 Apr, 2021 01:03 AM 5 minutes to read Many incredible things have come out of lockdown for artist Dylan Keys. At age 39, hes already been through alcoholism, suffered anxiety and chronic fatigue - throughout it all, using art as therapy because creativity "made sense" to his brain. "Then in the lockdown I saw something I wanted to draw, and gave it a go with charcoal." Dylans charcoal drawings are so realistic that hes ...

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Many of us are looking forward to a summer of relative freedom, with road-mapped milestones that will grant us more opportunities to see our friends and family. But we’ll be carrying the effects of months of isolation into those meetings, including a sense that our social skills will need dusting off, and our wits will need sharpening. The mental effects of lockdown have been profound. Social isolation has been shown to cause people’s mental health to deteriorate even if they have no histor...

Noida: The city is all set to open doors to its largest co-working space — a five-lakh sqft 10,000-seater facility at Sector 132 — in what could be seen as one of the biggest such ventures planned in the post-lockdown period. The facility is being set up by Incuspaze, which rented a space at Urbtech Trade Centre near Noida-Greater Noida Expressway in Sector 132. Talking to TOI, Sanjay Chatrath, managing partner of Incuspaze, said “Things have changed a lot after the Covid-induced lockdo...

Review: Hotel DeBrett, Auckland 4 minutes to read The reception at Aucklands Hotel DeBrett is warm, artsy and inviting. Photo / Supplied Juliette Sivertsen recommends a post-lockdown city staycation at this famous central Auckland hotel. Location: Corner of High St and Shortland St, about a five-minute walk from the Britomart Train Station. Queen St is just a stones throw away, and the area is abundant in high-end and boutique shopping and eateries. Style: Boutique luxury Advertisement First im...

Northland property market post lockdown not doom and gloom 28 Feb, 2021 04:01 PM 5 minutes to read The property market in Whangārei Heads is among the best-performing in Northland, with the median value currently sitting at $920,000. Photo / Tania Whyte Imran Ali is a reporter for the Northern Advocateimran.ali@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat Despite a somewhat sluggish market post-lockdown compared with other regions, Northlands median property values showed a healthy growth of more than 14 per cen...

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The 16 worries of Post Lockdown Anxiety Theres plenty to look forward to once restrictions end, but are you really ready to hug friends down the pub? 22 February 2021 • 12:00pm Arent you going to miss watching TV all day without being judged? Credit: Francesco Carta fotografo/Moment RF What’s everyone talking about now? The gradual easing of lockdown, of course, starting with schools going back, and then, any day soon… we’ll all be free! Out in the world at last! So, why the feeling of ...