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  • thursday

    market day 2

    kezia had her school market day.  she was the ceo of a stall selling confectionary.  sounds like they did some fancy dynamic pricing when they noticed some of their products were selling so well they put the price up.  And then put the price up again.  and then dropped them again towards the end of the hour.  clever.  she’ll find out how much her team made tomorrow.

    kezia also had swimming after school but finished early as she was so tired/eaten too many cakes all day

    market day 1

    school for jane, work for me

    esther has had a day studying at home for exams tomorrow

  • wednesday

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    esther had band practice this morning so joined me on the bus

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    school for everyone and work for me

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    i went for a quick walk at lunchtime to take a few photos

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    this evening kezia has been busy making brownies and preparing things for her school market day tomorrow

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    and jane has gone out to her book club

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  • tuesday

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    our roof is still leaking so that’s a shame.  still, at least we know about it.  john came round this afternoon to look and he’ll be back on the roof the next sunny day we get to see what’s going on.

    the girls had school.  esther had a mock exam and then violin i think

    kezia had swimming

    then this evening the girls did some cooking for kezia’s market day on thursday

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  • monday

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    i went photoing with mike this evening

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    it rained

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    a lot

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    school for all except esther as she had a study day

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    kezia had swimming this evening (also wet)

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    in other news, Kezia got in to Westlake school which is excellent

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  • sunday

    Looking

    church this morning. girls did creche. 

    Smoking

    jane spent the day doing school work.

    Thinking

    i did hours of paperwork and filing. pictures above are Kezia’s entries for the 60th photo exhibition

    esther put up a tent in tracey’s front room (tent pictures from tracey’s facebook page).

  • saturday

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    rainy day

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    esther spent the day revising

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    kezia and i sorted out some of her photos, and then she had a friend over this afternoon

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    kezia and her friend went to the mall to buy some things for a market day on Thursday and spent the rest of the time doing homework

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    jane spent much of the day being busy.  she went for a run, then met with debbie, did some shopping, took kezia shopping etc

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    i did various technology mendings and decided to risk my luck with a sunset

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    it never came, but i didn’t get too wet

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    which was lucky as there were plenty of rain clouds about

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  • Friday

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    Jane came in to town this morning to arrange a German trip so we met up for a coffee in hotel lobby like grown ups.

    I also had a meeting with a chap who manages our UK pensions so that we grown up too.

    Kezia had a church youth thing which three of her non church friends came to.

    And I had a photo salon meeting to talk about next year’s competition.

    My computer is in the middle of transferring 2TB of photos to a new hard drive so can be disturbed, hence me writing this on my phone.

  • thursday

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    esther had some mock exams today.  that’s exciting.

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    kezia had swimming

    this week has been particularly busy at work for me.  that’s good, but a bit exhausting, especially while still being a bit ill.  hey ho.

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    and this evening our house got inspected to see if it’s suitable for a student to come and be a homestay.

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  • wednesday

    Lights and Lines

    this is kezia’s image for the photo club this evening. unfortunately it only got acceptance as the judge didn’t think it met her leading line criteria (although she did say it was a great image)

    my image got highly commended, but she though it would have been better if i’d done less photoshopping

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    esther had a study day today for her mock exams

    and everyone else had work/school.  i’m really busy at work which is good.   although wasn’t helped by my computer breaking, but i managed to get it mended eventually

  • tuesday

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    i woke up with a really sore throat this morning so took the day of sick to sleep it off.  i dragged myself out of my sick bed to go and learn about taking photos of the supermoon, but instead got rained on, despite the weather looking promising.   perhaps the super moon’s super power is invisibility?

    jane and kezia had school

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    esther had a teacher only day so spent the day revising and doing homework.

    here’s the super moon rising behind rangitoto.  you’d actually see it if it wasn’t so cloudy.

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