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i worked from home today. girls had school and music practices. Lucie went to the auckland museum with a year 9 class.

i popped out at lunchtime to meet up with a friend who used to be in a famous band that you wouldn’t have heard of.  he gave me some of his albums in exchange for a photo of a Tui he’s going to use as an album cover

the deck work has begun (should finish tomorrow) and the gardener guys planted the last few plants and watered the garden a bit

i occasionally went outside to look at workmen doing things

church and domestics

esther’s choir sang at the closing ceremony of a literary conference then she went to a korean church with a friend.  she had a good time, despite her and her friend having to wear their school uniform at the church because they didn’t have time to change!  very formal

kezia stayed at home this afternoon doing homework and packing for her trip

lucie spent the afternoon with her french chum

here’s the programme from yesterday’s KBB festival in case you are interested in what the girls groups were playing.  Between them they were in all the groups except the westlake chamber orchestra

160820 KBB Festival Program

and here’s what they won:

Westlake Chamber Orchestra: Gold + Most Outstanding Performance by a Chamber Orchestra.
Westlake Big Band: Gold + Most Outstanding Performance by a Jazz Band.
Westlake Symphony Orchestra: Gold + Most Outstanding Performance by a Symphony Orchestra + Best Performance of a NZ Work by a Symphony Orchestra.
Westlake Concert Band: Gold + Most Outstanding Performance by a Concert Band + Best Performance of a NZ Work by a Concert Band.

a day of winning!

all the girls bands and orchestra won the main prizes at the KBB Music festival this week, including the Big Band who have never won a competition before

esther and kezia’s orchestra was the best orchestra.  here’s the piece they played at the gala concert this evening

esther’s concert band was the best concert band and scored an impossible 100% !!!

there were two gala concerts to go to today. jane and lucie went to the 2.30pm one which had chamber orchestra and concert bands. (the westlake chamber orchestra also won best chamber orchestra)

then kezia and i went along to meet esther and lucie for the 6.30 while jane went to our friend laura’s 21st birthday party

just when we thought the night couldn’t get any better, on the way back we to mcdonalds where the cashier said we were the nicest customers of his evening!

here’s what our garden now looks like

i popped out to a gallery exhibition this afternoon

And a friend sent me a link to this video which most contains me photoing a band (the music won’t be to everyone’s taste so you can watch me with the sound off!)!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZE70jlinF8

school, work, concert band performance for esther (which went well)

all of esther and kezia’s groups got in to the gala concert which is held tomorrow at the cathedral

this happened (Karen is the landscape designer, Tim is the gardener, Sean is his helper).

school/work for all

esther had her big band performance at the KBB festival in town and that went well.  best they’ve ever played she thought.  promising!

lucie, esther and i all arrived at constellation about the same time

jane had parents evening which went well because no one shouted at her

sunny before and after work now which is good

and it’s been a really nice and sunny

everyone had school

and work

here’s a load of pictures

i worked from home today as the boiler man was coming. he didn’t arrive until 4.30 though, but i’ve got a bit of a cold so was good to be at home anyway.  lots of work to do.

the gardeners are still busy

jane had a good day and watched a few of her colleagues teach some lessons which was good

esther and kezia went to the cathedral this afternoon to compete in the KBB festival with their orchestra

school and work for all.  esther had concert band and kezia had her choir so i picked them both up at 6.15 and we got takeaway for all on the way home

esther needed some photos for school so here are some i took on sunday night

we got a bit distracted during her photoshoot

this was the one she ended up using:

i had lunch with buzz

church this morning then domesticy things the rest of the day.  esther went to the university library to study algebra.   karen the garden lady came round to show us her pants and then she sprayed on the floor where the deck will go.