ministerial breakfast, a mini victory and street cleaning

esther had half a day off school today (i don’t know if she’s been to many lessons this week) to go to the bp inter school challenge   And her team won!  Yeah.

i left home a little early this morning and drove in to work so i could be at SkyCity by 7.15am for a breakfast talk about the minister responsible for transport, tertiary education, finance, infrastructure and telecoms (small country, big portfolios).  he’s also leading National’s election campaign, although it looks like a dead cert they’ll get back in.

here a very milky tea i got for a colleague who thought it was horrible

after the breakfast i had wall to wall meetings all day which ending this evening in a pub across the road from work some work colleagues to discuss job moves etc before driving back home in the busy rugby traffic (i just had a fruit juice for those concerned about safe driving).

this evening kezia took esther and  a couple of school friends up the road to clear an areas of rubbish for a project kezia is doing.  jane took some photos.

tomorrow morning they publish the new structure for Telecom, so i’ll have a better idea if my job still exists.  exciting.

and my guitar came back from the menders.  unfortunate it’s now got a fret buzz.