OK - I get the hint. Telling you at the beginning that a blog entry is the size of a mini essay is obviously off-putting. No-one read it (except Stan). At times like this I remind myself that the prime reason for blogging is to provide my family with a journal of our life. I romantically think of the girls reading it again in their old age!!
Stan, Cassie Williams is one of the latest stars of the Silver Ferns squad (don't anyone dare say 'the who'). On top of that she went to the same 3 schools the girls are going to ie Hinuera Primary, and Matamata's Intermediate and College so is a local hero.
I meant to talk last time about the devasting landslips and flooding to hit some areas of the Western bay of Plenty last week. The first flooding occurred near Tauranga in a suburb called Otomotai (? spelling), just over the Kaimais, and caused havoc there. Rain over the next 24 hours affected Matata further along the coast. The newsreel showed houses slipping down hillsides into the houses below. It was quite scary. States of Emergency were declared in both areas. Some of the areas flooded in Tauranga had barely recovered from flooding 2 weeks ago. It is tragic for the families involved, some of whom cannot even get into their homes to recover personal items. The volume of mud and rocks deposited is unbelievable, and even the civil defence co-ordinators were saying at first they had no idea where they were going to dump it all. These weather induced disasters seem to be becoming very regular occurrences here these days.
Regular Saturday running around here. Netball in the morning. Wonderful, Alice only had one game so I could come away after less that an hour and let Eric do Harriette's matches. Got a bit miffed though. Now I am the first to say I don't know about netball but I am beginning to get the little comments from other mum's. 'You didn't change positions at 1/4 time, and you did last week' and 'Your team changed directions at 1/4 time and mine didn't' (funny I thought the ref was in charge of that!) etc etc. I feel like saying 'Well if you can do better why didn't you volunteer for this?'. But I bite my tongue and smile sweetly saying 'I'm just doing as I was told'
After netball I went to the supermarket, did a moderately large shop then didn't have my purse!!! Luckily Eric was coming in later so picked it up for me. I quite like the idea of just going round the store picking what I want then calling in some man to pay, fetch and carry. One how may times I could do this before they put a stop to it? At home I made a huge lasagne, salad and tirimasu as Mandy and the 3 Scott-Mackie 'children' (2 of them are strapping teenage boys) were here overnight. We dug out lots of photo's of the children when they were young in Whitstable, bathing and sleeping together aged 3 etc and Harriette declaring on video that she was going to marry Oliver! I think I mentioned that Eric pulled out video recordings of the girls. Well I spent Sunday afternoon going through the tapes labeling them and watching 2 VERY cute little girls be sweet and kind to each other etc. All very tear jerking stuff. The SM's left after breakfast on Sunday (about 1.30pm!!). They are a very energetic family, exhausting but huge fun. Mandy and David's divorce has been traumatic for them all and it is wonderful to see them so together. I had planned to garden but the torential rain Sunday pm put paid to that and we lit the fire and had a cosy afternoon in.
Today another new colleague, Ruth came over for some teaching. Spent the day sorting out her database, files and folders. Don't laugh Stan, it was an organising exercise not one requiring great computer expertise.
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult is brilliant and I am off to continue with this. night night.
PS Eric poorly with a cold, suffering more because he had an exam today (or rather a test as he keeps reminding me. This makes it seem less important and therefore he panics less!!)
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