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great news of the day is that esther got in to the girls school that she applied for.  so that’s great !  She’ll start there in January.

i met a friend for coffee, visited the venue where i’m doing some photoing next week and had lots of meetings.

this evening i went to a 10th anniversary dinner for the telecoms industry group which was a posh (for new zealand) event in a boat club.  and it was good too

jane met her friend and another friend, and then she went to school. and this evening kezia had swimming.

these are the trees which might be replaced with houses if the developer gets his way.  we all finished our letters this evening which i dropped round to a neighbour who is delivering them all by hand.

everyone was back at school/work today.  both girls had violin, jane did some exercise bike class and i did some power walking round the neighbourhood.

nice but cold weather today.  7 degrees outside this evening.  but should be warm again soon.  yay.

also, sounds like the puppy is arriving a week on saturday.  jane has some pictures.

kezia was off school sick today so i worked from home as jane was teaching and had her church job.  kezia played nicely and even wrote her letter of complaint about the building development which will knock down these trees.

this evening esther had her tennis which got rained off half way through due to the mad spring rains (it hailed this evening apparently)

then the girls and i went up to sign the official neighbourhood letter of complaint about the development.

and esther appeared in the paper:

Don’t fell the trees! They are behind our house.

Kez came home from school poorly today – just a cold.

Very rainy showers today – I got soaked twice on a run.

Life group this evening and that is all

i was on sound this morning which meant a 7am start.  after church we got some dog roaming advice from Janine and James then went off for lunch with them before buying a dog house and some bark.  yup, i thought that too.

then after various music practices and things, Kezia and I built the dog house

kezia’s team won their flippa ball so are in the finals next week.

esther and i were hoping to go to the meeting about the building development this evening but just as we were about to leave a massive windy rain storm arrived so we didn’t go.  we’ll wait for the email telling us what we should put in our submission to the council which is due later this week.

it’s out equivalent of april showers i think.  Spring shows are part of the bumping landing to summer

bit of skyping and tv watching this evening.

jane and kezia went off early for a run/swim

when she got back jane did lots of mowing and gardening (trampoline deconstructed to reduce the chance of it blowing away in the high winds buffeting (is that the right word) new zealand at the moment)

 

during the morning (when i was working out how to do some things on the church mixing desk) we took delivery of a new bed for kezia, and our multi-drawed tall boy

we spent a bit of time constructing and manoeuvring the tall boy (we found the instructions tucked in the back of one of the drawers, but only once we’d put it together slightly wrong, but we were able to sort that out.  the sun blocks were only on there for a minute, but that was when i took the picture

 

i got measured up for a hire dinner suit for later this month and then we all went to a pet shop to look at dog houses and all that paraphernalia

then we went to Denny’s for lunch.  i had a burger which isn’t on my healthy food list, but i’ve had a good week of diet so thought that would be ok

then we went bowling.  our usual bowling place has closed down as it’s reopening somewhere else all nice and fresh.

so we went to another one which was definitely on its last legs too

they’d given up trying to keep the floors clean so you had to wear your own shoes.  glad i didn’t wear my jandals.  and all the balls were damaged and the pins kept falling over even before you threw the ball.   

but that was all part of the fun and we had a great time

so, quite a packed day!

This is something we’ve been watching almost daily since it appeared for New Zealand’s red nose day day day a couple of weeks back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Frenz,

Dave is getting thinner through his lack of choc. He went to work today and took Kez swimming. I went to my prayer group, then to lunch with a chum and then to school and then took E swimming and did my hard gym class. Now we are going to watch Fri night tv whoop!!

really busy day at work again for me.  all good though.

The girls had school and kezia had swimming this evening

I got a copy of the letter from the heart specialist to my doctor which described me as ‘David, a very pleasant 40-year-old from the U.K.’ 

It concludes my heart is ok, although i need to stop eating so much chocolate.  Apparently i’m ‘a little bit centrally overweight’!

i think i’ve already lost 2kg in the last couple of weeks since halting my choco intake though so that’s good.

jane had mainly music and a hair cut.  and mental dog preparations

the girls had school which for kezia involved her piano lesson.  they both had violin

i had a ridiculously busy day at work which was good fun. 

one of the work things i’m doing at the moment is chairing an industry group coming up with a Code of practice.  it’s quite high profile as the Minister has just said she’ll regulate if we don’t get it sorted quickly  you can read more here if you want an insight in to my working life:  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/7617789/Super-Ministry-to-draft-telco-rules

all good fun.

i walked past these out of work tellytubbies this morning.  Po was missing (dipsy is in the distance with a wonky antenna).  things haven’t been working out for them since Po left the gang and they got dumped by the BBC.