much dining

here’s what our current house looks like in case you are interested (when photoed by a professional photo man with a telescopic tripod and a wide angle lens):

http://www.realestate.co.nz/1541509

it’s funny to see our flourishes on the house.  see if you can see our bunting, the bird in the office, my ice cream photo, family portraits etc.

the day started for me with coffee with my chum gareth from church.  he’s a northern pom who has been living in NZ for a decade or so.  we had some phone mix ups (which is ironic seeing as we both work for major telecoms companies) but coordinated ourselves in the end.

i also met up with abbie at lunchtime to discuss life and that was good.  plus work was really busy.

and to add to my  winning streak, i got a $40 movie voucher from my boss for winning a competition for our team.  the competition was to use a business process template. it was only me and my desk-neighbour sasha who entered so we both won. there were some questions about whether i had insider knowledge as I created the template we had to use, and forced sasha to use it to enter the competition!

we’ll go to the cinema once they’ve put the roof back on (another victim of yesterday’s tornado!)

mum had a day at home just chilling (not literally, it’s been quite warm).  i think that’s her first day of doing nothing since she landed 5 weeks ago!  she’s flying to hong kong (honkers) on sunday so she’s starting to think about packing etc and got a lot of washing done today.  she’s also been doing sterling work taking kez to and from school.

the girls had violin after school.  esther now has her 45 minutes which makes the trip to and from kezia’s swimming lesson during esther’s violin lesson easier.  And jane had a good day at school.