letter box fantastic

I’ve found my desktop computer, and managed to reconnect the various hard drives and backups, and we’re now back in business. hoorah.  Hopefully normal and family blogging will be back to its usual speed rather than laptop slowness.

today has been mostly unpacking boxes, although we had some excitement along the way.

i woke up this morning to the sound of esther happily singing away as she rustled and unwrapped her bedroom items.  I then got to work constructing computers etc.

then late morning we went for afternoon tea at the new house of the people who used to live here, which was really nice.  we could also pick their brains about how things work and why things go clonk in the night !  we stayed there for a couple of hours then whizzed back here for lunch.

we saw these fab post boxes on the way

we’ve still got cockroaches in our letter box, so kezia has been less enthusiastic about extracting the post each day.  it’s like some japanese game show thrusting your hand in to a writhing mass of the unknown and coming out with the booby prize of a coupon for 10% off a pizza.   (actually it’s not that bad.  i think there’s only one or two in there and you can see what you are doing during day light hours)

after lunch we caught the end of Art in the Park just a few minutes up the path behind our house.  I’m thinking i might try and do a stall next year.  we’ll have to see how that works out.

then it was back here for more unpacking which carried on past and beyond bedtimes.  we did stop to watch Robots on DVD (and i used the sitting time to replace a load of plugs on the various appliances we’re beginning to unearth)

tomorrow is church and then afternoon tea at one of jane’s friend’s i think.  and no doubt lots more unpacking of boxes.

when we’re done, i promise we’ll give you a little guided tour of the house by video.

right, enough from me as usual.  see ya