a very long day

i had a kersquillion documents to write by the end of today which i hadn’t had time to do because i was down in wellington earlier in the week.  so i’ve sat here for the last 14 hours or so writing.  i’ve just finished and am now very tired so apologies for today’s brevity.

jane’s been poorly sick today though she managed to keep up a couple of her public appearances this morning (and went rapidly down hill this afternoon).  i think it’s the same bug that kezia and i have had so hopefully she’ll be back to normal in the next day or so.

the girls had their violin lessons this afternoon.  their teacher was away so they had his mother instead.  luckily she’s an excellent teacher (they’ve had her before) so all was well.

and in other news, here’s the girls’ school photo which i think is fab.  it’s a deliberately rubbish photo of their excellent photo (in the name of art perhaps) as we’re not allowed to make copies.  so this is just to give you an idea of what it looks like.  They’ve also each got a picture of them in their classes with all the pupils really nicely arranged.  i’m very impressed !

and it looks like we’ve got new tenants lined up for the house in the UK from early July pending paperwork.  (if any of our old neighbours are reading this, then they look/sound really nice).

it’s back to the office for me tomorrow for the first time in yonks (a very popular word here which is good news)

remind me to tell you about the peanut desks sometime

right, bed fred.  bye