i was on parenting duty today as i had a day off work to keep an eye on the girls as jane was back at work. the day started with a skype house tour for mum and brother edd. then we headed off to do various things including taking our Sky box back so we now have no live TV in the house anymore.
the picture above shows esther, my mum, kezia (reflection) me (thumbnail view taking the picture) and brother edd’s head (behind my mum)
the library, a DIY shop, various mending shops, banks, book shops, mobile phone shops and a music shop filled the morning and then we headed back home for the afternoon
i found two letters from Sky in the postbox – one from Sky NZ and one from Sky UK. The NZ one had our monthly bill so is now irrelevant. The Sky UK one was informing me of a deadline to do with receiving a few shares left over from when i worked there. Only the letter was badly addressed so had arrived 12 hours after the deadline. I’ve written a pleading letter so we’ll see how that goes.
The address they used didn’t have the words New Zealand on it, and has the wrong postal town and postcode. So it was quite amazing it even made it out of the UK and found our old NZ house (and then got post-forwarded to our new one).
this evening i went to the doctor’s as they won’t let me have my repeat hayfever prescription without paying a $60 visit to the doctors each year, then the girls swimming lessons, then pizza (tasting crispy and great from the new oven) then a family game of pictionary. this evening has been more UK house admin stuff.
here are some ducks which seem to enjoy sitting outside our front door. let’s hope they stay away from the pool …