not much to show for today really. a day of domestic doings which started with kezia and me picking up some flat pack bed side tables which took us the rest of the morning to construct. every piece of flat pack furniture we’ve bought in NZ has been more challenging than in the UK, and every item has included a few extra pieces in the box – for our outside chairs there was an extra screw per seat. And for the bedside tables we had an extra piece of wood each. i suspect the wood was just used for packing (they don’t tend to use polystyrene here which is good), but still very confusing to begin with.
this afternoon i’ve been trying to catch up on our finances after our recent spendathon. Jane did the lawns between rain showers again and the girls sat round an watched their old school christmas performance thanks to the miracle of the internet.
i also spent an hour or two trying to get the main funkypancake blog working properly, but the mended solution seems to be slower than the current falling apart version, so i’m not really sure what to do there.
anyway, that’s us. tomorrow should be more exciting as we’re off to the local bird sanctuary.
oh, and another exciting thing is that the owners of our house are in the country next week and are coming round to see the house next tuesday evening. cue general panic and tidying …