Not quite sure why I'm blogging down under when all the action is happening 'Up top'. If you ignore trees falling across the drive and dead animals!
Went to see Juliet and Kev for the day yesterday. Kev was bought a chocolate lab puppy bu his in-laws and Mom as an early Xmas pressie. Needless to say she is gorgeous and has bought some light into their world lately. No photos as my camera is elsewhere! No news on the job front and with Xmas approaching none expected. Kev is looking into setting up a business on his own at present. If it doesn't come off at least it has given him something to focus on. Juliet's parents have just arrived from the UK so it was nice to see them. They have just had got their residency through so I am hoping that Mom and Daddy follow in their footsteps very soon.
Finally had a good conversation with Eric this morning. ie he wasn't a) drunk, b) in a room with a hundred other people or c) on a cellphone that was breaking up. I phoned him at our dear friends Helen and Paul's. Helen said he still looked shocked. I also had a great chat with Helen, whom I miss lots still. Eric obviously has an absolute ball over the weekend and I can't thank you all enough for that. I have never seen such good photo's of Eric as those taken since he found out he was going, just beaming! I am pleased that he will have a bit of a wind down time with his family over the next few days.
Alice took a call from Claire, next door, this afternoon saying that a tree had come down on our drive. Yes Eric, that one you said you would tell Ian about. Claire said Ian had said last week he must chop it down before it falls down!!! No-one could have predicted the weather we have had this last 24 hours. I woke at 11.45pm to an enormous clap of thunder. The rain was deafening so I did the usual, walk round the house and close windows. Alice had the window next to her bed wide open (probably to allow Feral free access) and the blind was being sucked out. She was laying there sprawled out, covers off, oblivious. After deciding all was fine I went back to bed and thought of you all doing your 2 mins silence at Duke's. The rain was getting harder and harder and the wind was blowing a hooley. I decided that sods law said a tree would fall on the house as Eric wasn't here and got back up then to put some PJ's on. I thought back to the night of the fire when Carol and I both wasted time getting dressed (and running around in small circles in a totally unconstructive manner). I must say it was quite scarey but I finally manged to get back off to sleep. Since then we have had bright spells one minute and then rain and wind coming from nowhere the next - literally. Just after the girls got in from school Alan went to kill a couple of Claire and Ian's sheep (with their permission I hasten to add) and said the tree was already down. This means one of 2 things. Either the girls walked through/over it and forgot to tell me (unlikely but I can't exclude that totally) or it fell within minutes of them walking past it!!!
And the dead animal. I saw Inca in the front paddock hasseling a ewe and lamb yesterday. I called him and he reluctantly came back but on inspection I saw that the newborn lamb was dead. He was looking for an early supper!! I dumped it down the offal hole and was pleased to see today that the ewe has not been fussing around that part of the paddock. That is a couple of newborn lambs we have lost this year which is a bit worrying. I wonder if the fact that we did not get the sheep sheared in May is anything to do with it.
I took the girls to school today and picked up some things in Matamata. I popped in to Eric's office. He had had 2 emails from one of the girls. One saying they had just heard that Eric had to dash home and assumed it was a family crisis, could they do anything, and another which came after they got the full story. I planned to get organised at work today but got so many phone calls that I made very little progress. I have so many hours owing that I am hoping to take a few hours off each day this week. I guess I'd better take Friday off as I think someone might be expecting to be met from the airport! In fact I have 2 trips to the airport in less than 24 hours for Carol and Eric. Carol, could you get a bottle of Gordons and one of Blue Saphire at the duty free at Auckland please for me. I priced it last week and it is cheaper at the moment than buying in the shops. My gin levels are seriously low at present (ie levels in the booze cupboard, not blood levels!!). I think one of the girls told you that the growd up ribena is back on the shelves (they stopped making our everyday cheap red wine for about a year but it's back!). And what do you want for supper on Friday evening? Eric you know you will get pizza as you come home on a Sat.
Stan phoned briefly this evening. He had just got up for work and sounded terrible! Darling you left before Alice could say Hello and she was very sad!! :( Oh Alice has a blog!!! www.cedarlodge.blogspot.com I planned to get the girls sandwiches done and tomorrows pork vindaloo underway this evening but decided that a blog entry was required. It's now bedtime. Night, night. And good morning UK.
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