Today is Father’s Day, well it is here anyway. The girls bought Eric books on farting - Harriette (he is laying in bed next to me reading that one as I type and keeps shaking the bed he’s laughing so much!Typing is not easy!), and AB’s/ Lions rivalry over the years- Alice. I bought Eric a Gofa shovel!!! It’s the invention of a local guy and is for digging fence posts (no of course I’m not hinting that 3 years later my veg plot still has no ‘proper’ fencing – would I?!!??) The shovel is very long with a lever in the handle that tips the blade 90 degrees so you can scoop the dirt out from the bottom of the deep hole. Very clever, and very effective. Eric had had a generally non day as he has spent most of it writing an assignment due in tomorrow. He is on leave from uni at the moment so I will drop it off when I am in Hamilton tomorrow. I am going to Polytech! I am starting a Adult Teaching and Education course. I don’t think the course will be terribly challenging as I have done all this stuff before but I am really looking for some alternative ways to teach in the classroom. I feel I can usually get over what I want but am not very imaginative and cannot use different forms of teaching very well. I have been assured this is the course to show me. It actually can be counted towards a Diploma in Adult Education so may go further with it, we shall see.
Yesterday was the final game in the Tri-nations and watched it at R+R’s. A really enjoyable match, not least because Australia did a good job trying to catch us up after being 20-0 at half time (I think). They put in a sterling effort as NZ went off the boil but couldn’t quite make it. I am very impressed with new boy Luke McAllister. Don’t know that he can quite rival Carter but certainly has a brilliant future in front of him. And those thighs……..!!!! I’ve never seen anything like them!
I have spent another weekend gardening and the veg patch is definitely coming on. More carrots and beetroot went in today and the seedlings in the greenhouse are coming along. I have also put fert round the fruit trees and will spray them again tomorrow. We will have some fruit this year!
This was taken on 26th August...
...and this was taken today.
We also, at long last, had the paddocks limed. 11 tonnes of the stuff. It is something we should have done before but haven’t and now have been forced to because there is more moss than grass growing these days.
The lorry arrives (refilled)...
The goosers weren't too happy!
One of the goosers is laying and has made herself a nest so maybe little goosers will arrive before long. On the subject of babies, last years piglet, saved for the freezer, has just produced 8 piglets. She was not supposed to be pregnant as we got rid of the boar, but it looks like he did the damage before he headed for the freezer, 3 times over looking at the 2 sows!! Unfortunately 3 of these piglets died. Eric found them outside the pen so it looks like they wandered off shortly after birth and couldn’t find their way home. We were planning to scale down the pigs but looks like we’ll be carrying on for awhile!
No Ninja here!!
Mom and Daddy are flat out now. Their house sale looks to be proceeding OK and the packers are booked for 12 September. I have sent my IKEA shopping list and all seems to be going OK. They haven’t booked their flights yet as they are waiting for all to be confirmed, and they haven’t got their passports at the moment. They are planning to do a few weeks in Australia on the way to stay with Auntie Joan. Coincidentally my cousin Teresa is getting married on 1 October so that will tie in nicely. It will be strange, and nice, to have them here all the time. I do feel for Sharron (my sister) though. It would be nice to think she might one day come and visit us but I don’t think that will happen.
Well I will finish now and try and come back to this in the next few days to tell you about the Winter Feast and my job interview (no I’m not leaving IMAC). Night night all.
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