While I'm chatting to individuals. Helen, have been meaning to phone you at work and not got round to it. Evenings are definately a useless time to try and catch you! We're definately on for rugby on Saturday unless it's tipping down. I'm a fair weather fan! Will try and catch you at work this week. Looking forward to catching all the inside gossip on Cambridge High!!
As for the rest of you. Hi and hope you're having a good weekend. We are having a bad time with cellphones. Between us we have 4 as we both have 'work' ones as well as personal ones. About 3 weeks ago I lost my 'own' one. Found it yesterday outside in a bonfire on the drive. It had fallen in after the last fire so had not been subjected to heat but has been rained on. I have aired it in the airing cupboard and it has re-charged but the messages you sent Carol are not on there. I have sent you one so will be intertested to know if that's received. Well just as I found that one Eric has mislaid his!! Lets hope that one turns up as it is a lot newer than my one.
Had a good trip to Auckland, apart from getting the times of course No. 1 mixed up. I thought it started at 1.30pm on Thursday. I sat at my desk at 7.50am and looked for a phone number to organise parking. When I pulled out the form I find the course starts at 9am!!!! (Central Auckland being 2hr 30min away). Oooopps. So I had a day doing much needed paperwork and drove up in the late afternoon to Beth and Grahams. I was staying with them in Howick overnight and figured I'd stick with that arrangement a) because I wanted to be sure to get to Fridays course on time and b) because I was looking forward to catching up with them! During the evening Graham suggested I get the ferry to the city central area. What a jolly civilised way to commute!! This I did. I drove down to Half Moon Bay (10 minutes) straight into easy parking right near the ferry, walked onto a boat that took about 100-150 people and read my book for the 30 min trip. I disembarked onto a pier towered over by a very elegant old building and another modern elegant building with lots of outside cafe seating. Walking into town it was clean and smart modern and old blending nicely with the new. I looked up to a bright, clear blue sky and thought 'if this is communting I could cope with this'. I walked the 20 minute walk to the computer training department. I have to say that by mid afternoon I was missing the greenery though and was relieved that this was a one off - maybe I wouldn't like to do this regularly after all. The ferry back was the same one Graham caught. His friend was also on the same ferry and we spent the return trip discussing Africa (Graham being an ex SA and Pedro, I think that was his name, being Portugeuse who lived in Mozambique and then SA before emigrating to NZ. Both really good company. I got back to Matamata at 8.10pm exhausted but far more knowledgable about Excel in particular.
We have been blessed with 4 very spring-like days, warm and sunny with the odd light shower. I was out fairly early yesterday and whilst I can't get near the garden as the soil is still soaked I was able to clear up and burn (hence finding the phone). It was so good to have one of those outdoor days when you come in feeling like you've made some progress. I planted a fejoa tree and 2 other trees that I must have bought at some time but I have now idea where, when or what they are!! Planted up a jasmine and lots of bulbs on the bank behind the pool and cleared the carport. Today I have not got outside much but have got some seeds into seed trays. Richard and Robyn managed to get away from the farm for a few hours and came for a joint morning tea and breakfast. It was meant to be morning tea but we ended up having bacon sandwiches as well to try our home-made bacon. salty but very nice - well I think so. We all went for a walk around the block, mainly because R+R have never actually done this and of course we wasted lots of time gushing over the piglets while Rust stood in the trailer making pathetic noises as he knew he wanted to join in ut was wary of the electric fencing that had got him the week before!
Robyn and Olympia
Harriette with Freckles.
Oh I had a surprise on Saturday. Ben caught a rabbit! Now that might not sound very impressive but you have to appreciate what a lazy and useless thing he is and how he begrudges anything involving any sort of exercise. I was especially pleased as it was down near my veg plot and the b---ers have been at my carrots. Inca and Rust looked suitably impressed.
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