It's 7.30am, raining (which we desperately need), grey, I am snuggled up in bed, with tea at hand, typing with one hand as my other is round Alice who is reading. I have a clear conscience but I know Eric is laying here thinking he should get up and feed out!!
(Interruption for major stress (it couldn't possibly last could it!): Harriette, who was on the phone to her friend Bryre in the UK has come off the phone, on a capped call, so she could have talked for 2 hours, and come in to tell me she wants THIS computer to MSN the friend she has been talking to!!! Apparently Messenger is not downloaded on the desktop and we cannot get my 'work' laptop to connect since it went in for upgrading. I could easily let her take this one but I work flippin hard all week and resent my bit of relaxation being taken way - and by someone who is so lazy and resents doing the slightest bit of work! So the inevitable altercation occurred. However I am now back and she is downloading MSN elsewhere!!)
Where was I?.... Yesterday, in an effort to improve Alice's fitness I got her to come and walk with me. It's only to the end of the road and back but that is 2km. I obviously had to walk slower but left her near the end to turn round and I walked ahead and caught up with the on the way back. Got home to find Eric raking leaves as Harriette rushed out the house saying 'Where were you, I am late for netball' (Alice doesn not start until next week). So we bolted down some cereal and dashed off. Intermediate School have 19 netball teams in 2 year groups. They play in competition with 3 (smaller) schools. Yesterday they played for placings to see which team would be in which group. So we had to wait around for 6 games (on 7 courts ie 42 games. The last 2 years have been bad enough with H and A playing in different year groups at the same school. Now we will have them in different session times. The first to have the courts are the primary schools, later in the morning Intermediate, next College students and then the adults. I guess we only have 2 girls, some of our friends have children in each school. I wonder if they spend all day there or do older girls not want Mom's and Dads on the side lines? Anyway, I should not moan, we actually quite enjoy it and I guess it was because of this that we got friendly with Richard and Robyn. However yesterday I hung out the washing before we went so I guess there was no sign of rain at our house. In Matamata (about 8 miles away) it was very grey and the rain came, slowly at first but steadily worsening. It did not seem to occur to anyone to stop play so I said I would go home and get rain coats. Didn't have to though as I found them, with a brolly,in the car. Poor Harriette and Sarah (Scott) were like drowned rats at the end of play! Alice had already worked out with Kathryn that she would go back with Richard, and Sarah wanted Harriette also but I insisted she come home for a hot shower and dry clothes first. When I took her back I didn't need to have bothered as Alice had bathed with the others there and she was in different clothes anyway! Robyn, who is studying for a pre-school education degree, was away on a workshop and I was reluctant at leaving Richard with 4 children to cope with. He was quite happy though and we enjoyed a quiet afternoon pottering.
The rain was wonderful, constant and although hard at times it was not torrential stuff that runs off the land. It was the sort of rain that soaks into the ground and does some good. All we need now is the warm sun to return when the rain stops.
We bought the TV and video in from the cottage yesterday. That, in the Tanner household is the marks the official start of winter. In traditional winter fashion we ate pizzas (homemade of course) while watching a video (2 towers, Eric and I still had not seen it) before adjourning to bed.
Must go and drag Alice out for walk now.
Love to all
Michelle
xoxoxo
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