R and R (and neither one stands for rugby!)

We are licking our wounds. What a terrible match. Luckily we watched in the company of fellow POME's and not Richard and Robyn! Richard will tease us no doubt when we see him. They are back from hols and I will ring tonight. I don't need to comment on the line outs, what a shambles and Chris jack should have been sent off for that high tackle. And as for the ref, he should have been wearing an All Blacks shirt!! Bloody French! Graham Henry had his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek when he said he was a good ref!!

Eric has just come back from taking the Mistral for a test run, 16 weeks after it was taken off the road!! At long last!! Eric said to enjoy these few days before the bill comes in. He thinks this next one will be in excess of $5000. If it is I'll cry.

Last week IMAC sent us on a 2 day retreat. We stayed at Marama a resort on the north side of Rotorua Lake, (Rotorua is on the south side). The resort was obviously quiet and the accomodation very nice, individual houses. I even managed to do the gym one morning. The first evening Loretta cooked us supper at 'her'house and the next evening we went to some hot pools in Rotorua before a wonderful Thai meal. The hot pool was actaully in an old hospital where they had 'pyretic' rooms and mud rooms!! We did a bit of work in that we had a meeting and I had my staff appraisal. I am going to try and do a CAT (Adult teaching)course locally and have asked for a payrise. Waiting to see about the latter. I spent the rest of the time walking and reading. Very restful. The point of this was a thank you for the hard work we did in the early part of the year to get through CCA etc. All the vacant positions in our team have now been filled and it was the first time the 'new look' team got together. The new girls are great and I am going to enjoy working with them.

Alice is trying to drag me away to complete a game of scrabble. We are playing with my grandfathers braille set (the letters are also printed before anyone gets smart!). It is about 40 years old and the board rotates on it's base. Very sensible!