We had a bit of a celebration of Eric’s achievements yesterday. I sent an invite out saying this:
For those of you have known us a long time you will know that reaching this point has been a long journey. One step forward and two steps back at times. It has occurred to me that we have never really celebrated Eric’s achievements. Eric recently passed his final exams to qualify, has been admitted to the Bar as a barrister/solicitor and, has now been offered a position with a local law firm. Time for a get together I think! So:
You are invited to our place
from 12 mid-day on Sunday 30th July.
It’s a bit impromptu so I’m making it a pot-luck affair.
Please bring yourself, the kids and a pot (something simple) and RSVP
(Apologies to the dairy farmers for the timing!)
It turned out to be a bit of a Taotaoroa Rd get together with Mom and Daddy. Being the start of the middle of calving dairy farmers go into hibernation so the likes of Richard and Robyn couldn’t make it, and others already had their Sunday planned so I wasn’t expecting too many people. Had about 35 here though, mainly neighbours and people from Eric’s office. We did roast’s of pork and lamb and a beef curry and rice, rice pudding and a gorgeous chocolate cheesecake that I had forgotten about until I, accidentally, came across the recipe in my fill in your own recipes, recipe book.
It was good to have a chat with the neighbours. We pass each other, wave and have brief chats, almost always ending saying we should get together, and never do. We all parted saying we should do this again soon. I hope we don’t take too long to do it. We joked with Ian and Shirley from next door about having a meeting to rearrange the boundaries between us, them and the neighbours the other side of them. I left Julie and Derek’s place when we borrowed their tractor telling Eric I wanted to buy their house when they moved, and Ian and Shirley want our back paddocks. I sure we could arrange something!!
Eric has had his formal letter of a position offer and accepted. He was trying to work at get giving less that 4 weeks notice but hadn’t had any luck so starts with McGill, Earl and Co on 28th August. I’m sure this will be a very long month for him.
Eric is having a flurry of activity to et all the little jobs done before he loses his free afternoons. He has also started on sheep pens down by the barn and put in a fence but needs to borrow a tractor again to shift some big rings of the gum tree that was felled a couple of years back before he can get on with that. I think he has arranged that with Basil for the weekend after next.
Had an interesting chat with Judith yesterday (the wife of one of Eric’s colleagues). She has a daughter 2 years older than Harriette who plays tenor sax with a band in Hamilton. The band is recovering from a bit of a run down and looking to get more members. She is going to give me the details of the organiser. I know Sarah is keen to do this so if we could get another parent interested then we can car pool and cut down on the trips. It sounds like Alice could do this as well. Alice is keen as she is very enthusiastic about clarinet playing at the moment. Harriette is a bit concerned about the point as she is planning to change instruments to oboe in January. I think it would be good for her to go along and suss it out.
I must get up. I hadn’t noticed that Alice had not! She has just emerged from her room 10 minutes before her bus is due so Eric will have to take her in. Until next time…
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