It is very frustrating when you do a blog…then loose it!! It wasn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last but it is still very annoying. I wrote blog then went to photobucket to sort some piccies out to paste. As I was about to click the button I briefly thought I should save this in drafts. Why do I not listen to my inner voice?! Anyway. I was, in said lost blog, talking about the weather.
Regular readers may know of my, near obsession, with the weather. I thought the British had the monopoly on meterological concerns. Well their casual ‘still raining’ or ‘nice weather today’ comments are nothing on the conversations that go on down here. For a start the weather here is seriously unpredictable and secondly it is seriously important. Judging when to lock down paddocks, when to get hay/silage cut etc are expensive decisions. One year in a few decades time we might get it right! And by unpredictable I mean that. A few days ago Eric and Carol sat on the deck for, so they tell me, a short period of time (?!) and Eric at least got sunburnt. Yesterday it was bitter cold all day (16 degrees),with showers of torrential rain and very windy. In the afternoon I lit the fire. Today, as I sit in bed at 7.20am, it looks gorgeous but by 9am who knows. I hope it is good today as there is some sort of parade in Matamata at 11am that the girls want to go to.
Still on the theme of the weather, yesterday I was driving home between Cambridge and Hamilton and was taken aback by the sky. Directly above me and following the line of the road, was a strip of white cloud. To the left of it was lower seriously black cloud and in the distance I could see rain falling on the hills. To the right of this strip was bright blue sky and occasional ‘good weather’ clouds. Needless to say I was driving into the weather system to my left. In fact by the time I got to Camridge I was in the midst of a hail storm. It’s all my fault you know. I got the summer duvet out when Eric was away.
Yesterday morning I was laying in bed looking at the rain and listening to the weather forecast when asked Eric if anyone had told God that it is supposed to be summer. He handed me the phone but I didn’t know the number!
Carol has left and headed South, due back this weekend. Her blog takes on a different hue when she writes from NZ. There is no doubting where her heart is. I have always said how she pales my ramblings into insignificance.( www.quest4aragorn.blogspot.com ). She even makes very unfunny things funny. As an example, as few days ago she managed to join us for breakfast and related, almost verbatim, the talk over the table. No I was there and found it, at the time, frustrating. You know, the usual, ‘will you do this’ and ‘have you got that’ pre-school stuff. Well reading Carols version was hilarious. Maybe I would benefit from looking from the outside in sometimes.
Work has eased off a bit with a huge rush due over the coming weeks. I have almost nothing in the following week and plan to keep it that way. I will take some of the many hours time owing I am due and catch up on weeks of neglected office work. Our Cold Chain Accreditation process should start next week but I am not planning to do any until the following week. I need some breathing space. I am aware that I have not been performing very well this last 4 weeks and Jude has even picked up on it so I must take myself in hand. Eric has been very supportive – when he’s been here!!! But I know I must take responsibility for myself. Gosh isn’t that very growd up!
Well I guess I ought to get up. Have invited R+R and Helen and Phil for supper tonight. R+R are busy and haven’t heard back from H+P (left them a message). Also left Mandy a message asking if we could pop in today as I have to go over to Tauranga but haven’t heard back from her. (Must check my deodorant!!!)
Will try and post piccies this evening if we don’t have ‘company’. Did your parents used to refer to ‘company’ when people came over? Mine did. Doesn’t it sound terribly quaint now!
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