Why we blog.

I started writing this in comments and decided it would be better here.

I have been sighing at lack of comments (and emails) lately. Harriette thinks it's very sad that Eric and I live in the same house and have to talk to each other through blog!!!! The funny thing is I know lots of people read blog but don't use the comments. If you are one of those people and have never clicked on the 'comments' under each entry you won't know what I'm talking about - try it. You may even want to go further and write something!!!

We go through phases with blogs don't we. Bloo has decided to terminate his, or not as the case may be, Briggsy was going to but hasn't, I got very slack for awhile and am now trying make amends etc etc. I suppose we all have different motives. As I have said before mine is to provide a record for our family, me, our children, grandchildren etc. I constanly hear my grandmothers voice in my head (well not constantly, that would be worrying but you know what I mean) saying to her death in her 90's, "I wish I'd written a book" or "I wish I'd written this all down". My blind grandfather made an audio tape, well 9 actually, documenting his life (he was born in 1900). A treasure for any family. This is my attempt to document our family and I hope I continue forever! In the meantime if others get pleasure from reading it then that's great.

We are enjoying sunny chilly weather here at the moment. Well I don't enjoy chilly you will understand but the sun is good. I am driving down to Pio Pio (pronounced pew) today then having a leaving lunch in Te Kuiti for a Taranaki colleague who is leaving. I am enjoying a bit of a lull at work at the moment and catching up on lots of things.

Eric and I started pricing air flights last night. How depressing! The cheapest price we can come up with on May 2007's prices is about 4 000 GBP, and with oil prices the next lot of prices released are bound to be significantly higher. Of course we now have to pay adult fares for the children. How much our windfall comes to should be made known to us later in July so we will see how much of a short fall we will have to make up. Still planning to make the UK for July 2007.

Must go and do some work now.