All better

Haven't looked at the damage under the plaster but the finger feels a lot better-Thank you.

Now where was I, yes the weekend. Juliet and Kev are having a rough time of it at the moment with Kev having lost his job when the company folded out of the blue. He is waiting to hear on several interviews and has several things in the pipeline but everything takes so long. We invited them down with the intention of spoiling them and having a boozy evening or 2! Emma and Hannah stayed in Glen Murray as they had important netball matches to play so it was just the 2 of them. On Saturday we went for a walk on Te Puri, a large hill between us and R+R, sort of. Anyway Eric said it would take 10 minutes to drive there and it took best part of 30mins! The walk was lovely. We left H at home and just had Alice with us. Now Alice is always dragging up the rear and we are always having to stop to wait for her when we walk. Not today, it was like we'd bought a different child. She raced ahead and kept calling for the oldies to catch up. Now me and Eric you can understand but J and K are pretty fit. I would gasp and struggle up a hill wondering how anyone could have enough puff to talk and I'd catch Juliet up and she wouldn't even be breathing hard!!! I always worried when we had a long downhill slope as I knew we had to walk up it on the way back. It was very beautiful and is hunting territory. Eric and Kev got into discussion about a hunting trip and talked about us all doing an overnight trip into the bush as a recce. Sold it to Alice as a Famous Five sort of adventure. Well Alice took to this idea in a big way. Came home and has started a PowerPoint presentation for everone on the plans for the trip, has done a roster and this morning, wondering why her backpack was at home when she was at school, found it packed for the trip!! She was a bit perplexed when last night we told her to take these items off her packing list; walkman, earphones, spare batteries, several books, games, stools, pillows, blowup mattress, gun (Eric). I don't think she has quite got the gist of things!

Saturday evening saw me trying to serve a meal with too much Gin on board on a very empty stomach. Eric had verbal diarrhoea and slid into the role of careers adviser (I mean Eric, of all people, can you imagine, he's had one career that lasted 3 years in his whole adult life!!). Anyway they had just about written the business plan for a viticulture enterprise by the evenings end. Luckily Kev was in the same state as Eric. It was a good relaxing evening. I had my first hangover since the Halloween evening, but no nearly as bad as that one.

Sunday was just a late breakfast (homemade sausages and bacon, home grown lambs kidney, shame about the eggs and tomatoes!) then J and K left to gather up daughters. Eric and I pottered and sorted out my compost heap which was falling apart. The posts were struggling to hold back half a tonne of pig bedding and manure so were replaced with warratahs. Looks much tidier now. I weeded the rhubarb and divided that also. My celariac seeds still have not germinated (in the greenhouse) and neither has the spinach :(

Eric laid in bed this morning listening to the news and suddenly announced 'It's not fair'. 'What' I said'. 'Well for everybody else it's still Sunday and we've got to get up and go to work'!!!!! The poor boy!!!

Alice went to Daltons today as part of her class's study on how compost is made. She was busy telling us all about it and announced 'It takes 2 years and half a day to make compost' We fell about laughing and she could not understand why. 'What was the half day for Alice?' We never did find out! She won a cap for getting a question right. I am just going to check that she is not wearing in bed!

Night night all.