Eric is sitting on the sofa with Dusty on his chest! I think he has moved since I last blogged.
The girls are playing (nicely so far) with Barbies on the floor and all is peaceful.
This week has been Well Child Week in NZ and IMAC (my employers) have a contract for this week, which I think means we help out where we can. (There's probably more to it than that). Anyway I spent Tuesday in Paeroa (Judes patch) helping out there and today I was in Huntly with their Well Child activities. Huntly was very successful, Paeroa less so. At Paeroa I sustained an industrial injury when a child ran, full pelt into me as I was kneeling on the floor. She pushed my head back with an amazing amount of force for such a little girl and I have been suffering with a very sore neck since. As this is my first experience of Well Child Week I have taken a bit of a back seat and observed. Hopefully I will be able to be more active and involved next year.
I am chuckling! Alice is singing a pop song, word perfect and Eric commented that he would rather she put the effort into learning her tables (in fairness she has got most of them sussed) and said 'seven sixes'. After being ignored several times he said 'Alice I want to know what 7 sixes are' to which Alice replied, with emphasis, 'Diddy you know what 7 sixes are'!!!!! LOL NB Diddy is not a typo, that's what she says.
NZ is introducing a Meningococcal B vaccine (I must have mentioned this before) and it rolls out in Manakau south of Auckland in July. Well in order to store the vaccine properly it has to be kept in a fridge and there are big worries that the fridges are not up to it. So, the Ministry are introducing a system whereby GP's will have their fridge management assessed (by us at IMAC initially) and be certified before being allowed to hold the vaccine. Anyway the certification process is being piloted in Auckland and Manakau and I went up to help the girls with the pilot. God I'd forgotten what city living was like!!! We spent hours in the car. I often do here but I cover hundreds not tens of km each day. I stayed with Veronique who is the equivalent of my boss Loretta but for Auckland. Veronique has recently returned from several years working in primary healthcare in the UK, and she and her husband have bought a plot in Karapiro, 10 mins from here and will be building there so I feel we have a fair bit in common. On top of that she is lovely! Anyway Veronique lives right in the middle of Auckland but in a quiet road and getting from there to the highway at 7.30am was a joke. I thought the traffic was terrible and I was told I made good time getting to the campus!! We had a debrief regarding this pilot with a guy from the Ministry (of Health) who flew up from Wellington for the occasion.
I left about 3.45pm to start making my way home before the rush hour - or so I thought. Before heading out of town I went in pursuit of celeriac. I found celeriac a year or so ago at a delicatessen in Hamilton, but their supplied dried up (actually the grower died!) and I have not found any since (have I told you this before?). Anyway, I had been directed to a couple of grocers whom I was told might have some (not that anyone I spoke to knew what celeriac was!). After an hour of trying various grocers, and getting stuck in ridiculous traffic, I gave up and headed home. I MUST get my celeriac seeds to germinate. I am SOOOOO glad I don't live up there.
This weekend we have netball, netball and more netball! We are also going to tackle gutters, weather permitted. Gosh I can see it is going to be an exciting one! Will keep you informed.
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