Tuesday marks a week since the convoy of protestors arrived at Parliament - and few then could have foreseen the large-scale occupation it has become.
Certainly not residents of central Wellington, some of whom have had their lives upturned.
Former New Zealand Human Rights Commissioner Rae Julian lives across the road from Parliament Grounds - a block of land she calls "her garden".
She told Morning Report she's not happy about it.
"I'm 80 years of age, I am an asthmatic, and I have no car. If I go outside, if I leave the building, I have to walk through the middle of protesters, there is no way of leaving this building without having to walk through.
"They're not masked, and it's likely that some have Covid. So, I don't think that it is fair, it is my right to be able to move freely around while at the stage when I'm not a close contact, I don't have Covid, so they're infringing on my rights as well."
