Saturday evening and the first weekend we have had at home for a good while now. Mom and Daddy here, chatting to the UK at the moment, and Eric is reading the newspaper (actually he should be studying he has exams next week. Maybe I’ll let him off – he has done about 7 hours today!) Girls are watching a DVD.
Where to start? Last weekend was a BH. Mandy had invited Eric to join them for a trip up to the Mercury Islands off the Coromandel for some sailing. They were due to leave on Friday morning but that was postponed because of the weather. They left on Saturday. Eric’s Safari was in the garage so I had to drive him over the night before and pick him up on the Tuesday morning. We missed him! He got ridiculously sun burnt despite SPF 30 and caught a fish. Yes that’s another one. Someone else had caught some scallops and they had them for breakfast one morning. He was exhausted when he got home!
Well Mom and Daddy are finally here!!! I think they still can’t believe they’ve finally made it. They arrived at midnight in Hamilton, which made it easier for collecting them. I got the girls up and took them with me as I had promised them the next morning off school. M + D have had a trip over to Tauranga to do boring business stuff and get in contact with some real estate agents etc. Today they played golf, their first game in weeks. They were seriously withdrawn! We have given them a calf as a ‘welcome to NZ’ pressie. They know they have to eat it! They were really chuffed.
Eric just has 2 more weeks of studying then he has a break for a few months. Poor guy is exhausted. He came back from sailing and had to butcher the rest of the beef. I was adamant it was to be finished before M + D arrived. He managed it, just – I think they were landing as the last lot went into the freezer. We had sirloins and fillet steak the following evening – divine. In fact the fillet was the best I’ve ever tasted! Even if I have labeled all the fillet up as rump!!! We were in hysterics over something Eric said at that meal, something I was thinking I must put on blog, but blowed if I can remember what it was!!! I think Eric can as he smirks when I ask him, but he won’t say. He has his first exam on Monday morning, last one on the 15th November.
Mom and Daddy did their first bit of babysitting last night. Eric and I went to see the Rocky Horror Show performed by the Hamilton Operatic Society. An excellent show, which we thoroughly enjoyed. The rocker wasn’t quite Meatloaf, but the other performances were very strong and the casting excellent. When I first went to the Founders Theatre I thought how small it was but I must be getting kiwi-ised as this time I thought it was big!! Harriette was desperate to see it but we thought it was a bit to adult for her. On seeing it though I think it would have been OK for her – just.
Actually spent today in the garden for the first time in awhile. The veg plot has got quite over run again and the grass around it is 2 ft deep. The weed eater (strimmer) was not working and it went in for repair. Something ‘unusual’ has gone wrong with the ignition and when that was replaced it started but threw flames out the back so the guy is hanging onto it for a while. He lent as one which has an engine on it less powerful than my hairdryer and is not really man enough for the job so I hope he gets ours fixed soon. The strawberries are ready as are the spinach, lettuce, radishes, carrots, rhubarb and silver beet. I have also been working on the lawn in front of the cottage again, it is level and just needs reseeding now. No plans for tomorrow – wonderful.
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