esther the journalist

the big news of the day is that esther is now a published journalist.  esther wrote an article about writing articles which is very self referential.  This is the one she had to write with a 20 minute deadline because the teacher had forgotten to tell them.

i know you care about my illnesses, so i can tell you my cold went through its runny stage and is now in to the blocked sinus agony stage which isn’t too great.  band practice this evening though which was a good distraction

jane’s now broken up for the holidays.  as luck would have it jane and the girls both get two weeks off, but as luck wouldn’t have it, only the middle week overlaps.  which means she has tomorrow and all next week to herself and already has lots of things planned.

there’s local council elections on soon so the world is full of these advertising boards which seemingly can be placed everywhere.  the campaign has reached a stage where they are being comically defaced and altered which makes things more fun.

this being new zealand some of the candidates have got rather fruity motos and slogans.  you can read his manifesto here. not one for the kids, but typical kiwi (unfortunately)

this evening’s it’s calm but there’s a sever weather warning for tomorrow.  apparently one of the largest weather storms on the planet is heading our way.  it’s the size of australia apparently (which is big).  read the warnings here