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  • sunday

    church this morning.  esther had a korean night practice (and lunch in a plant shop)

    jane did a load of school prep

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    i drove esther around, dropped off some camera equipment, bumped in to an old friend from church, then did some admins

    jane is out this evening at the cinema with her friends from church

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    kezia noted how jane and i have marked our respective territories in the office with circular barriers!

  • saturday

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    korean drumming (esther)

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    community gardening/gorse moving/dirt moving (reluctant dave)

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    korean barbeque eating and shopping (kezia)

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    homework/school prep (esther/jane)

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    concert photo editing (dave)

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    Eddie the Eagle Edwards film (everyone)

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    gig last night was ok, but quite dark and very late

  • friday

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    i had work (but still felt a bit ill)

    esther went in to auckland with friends and went up to the top of various very high office buildings to look out their viewing decks!

    kezia went to a mall i think with a friend to get her nails done

    jane had her last teacher only day

    and i briefly swapped faces with kezia

  • thursday

    i was off sick today with the office cold/headache thing

    esther went to a friend’s house and built some cakes but they weren’t very nice

    kezia played bowls with some friends then practices her viola with another friend

    jane had school then had drinks at a colleagues house with the rest of her team which was good

  • wednesday

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    i saw the pacific pearl arrive at the same time as i did this morning and left as i went to get the bus

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    jane had a teacher day at school today.  kezia went to takapuna with a friend and esther had some friends over for a korean singing practice

     

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    i had camera club and got highly commended for the image above and honours for the one below

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  • tuesday

    work for me which featured lunch with buzz

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    jane did ferry people to various bus stops and met up with a school chum. rest of the day was spent doing school work

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    esther went in to town and met with two different sets of friends during a day which featured crazy golf with dinosaurs

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    kezia went out for the day with her friend.  i suspect they went to the mall but i haven’t asked her.

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    this evening esther and i popped out to the local petrol station for some eggs and visited the last remaining DVD rental shop.  might be our last ever visit to one of these places!

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  • monday

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    today was a public holiday for ANZAC day

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    so we went for a muddy walk in the Waitakere ranges with half the population of Auckland

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    we had a picnic under shelter at the arataki visitor centre

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    then drove over to Fairy Falls for a two hour stomp

    the rest of the day has been spent doing school prep (jane), watching online telly (the girls), having a friend to stay over (kezia) and sorting out my computer (dave)

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  • saturday

    day spent researching and buying computer (me) then photoing at a funny little club

     

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    esther had korean drumming

    rest of day was milling about

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  • sunday

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    so i missed sunday.   church, shopping for computer bits and kezia phone stuff.  debbie, malcolm and biffy for a lovely dinner

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  • friday

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    i took the day off work today and the four of us went to tiritiri matangi island to look at the birds

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    the weather was amazing and we had a great day

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    this evening jane and i went round to biffy’s house to celebrate debbie selling her house

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    my concert photoing last night went ok.  some pictures at the end of this post or see here on Under The Radar

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    photos from last night’s concert:

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