the girls had another great day at school, although kezia somehow managed to lose her compulsory hat and lovely warm (and expensive) school jumper. jane went with her to the lost property cupboard and kezia was surprised to find that it was full of identical jumpers and hats which belonged to other people. that’s school uniforms for you.
apparently things take a few days to reach the lost property area, so we expect to see them again toward the end of next week. meanwhile she might not be able to play outside at lunchtime due to the hat rules, so may need to take her old uk school cap along instead.
that’s today’s hat news folks.
over tea (that’s what i’ve always called my evening meal and i’m delighted that seems to be the kiwi term for it too) we learnt that kezia had cooked (and eaten) burgers in her cookery lesson, kezia had done high jump as part of her athletics and esther did discus. esther has a school trip next week too.
kezia said everything was the highlight of her day as she loves doing things she wouldn’t have done in england. so hoorah for that.
meanwhile jane and i went shopping to a factory outlet type place and bought a telly and a fridge freezer, both to be delivered to the new house when we get in. and we’ve also booked up our hire furniture for the month until the container arrives.
one new thing we learnt today is that our eftpos cards (debit cards you use in shops) have got daily spending limits which we reached quite rapidly. luckily we could split the cost between our two cards and we were sorted. but it did stop us buying our washing machine and was a great excuse to avoid looking at garden furniture and sofas. we’re not very good at shopping.
tomorrow will be a little different as i’m going to try the bus route to work (still another week and a bit to go, but i need to practice my commute having not done one for nearly 3 months) and jane is driving over in the new car to meet up with her friend wendy for morning tea.
as a result all 4 of us will be in different places for much of the day. i think that’s another southern hemispherical first for us.
i think it’s starting to get strange for jane as the rest of us begin our routines and the spectre of home-aloneness starts to loom.
sorry for long post with boring words. this is exactly why i’m not hugely wordy on the main funkypancake website !
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Can you point out the boring words, Dave? I didn’t spot them.
Hame about the missing parts of the school uniform. We both (ve and me) think the girls look lovely in them. Hope the missing items turn up OK. When do you move in to your next place?
Ok, OK I know I can’t type!!!!
now i know where i get my creative speling from ! we move in to our new house on the 4th November (although we can get in to it on the afternoon of the 3rd). That coincides exactly with moving out of our temporary accomodation.
i start work on the 2nd November.
julie “meanwhile jane and i went shopping to a factory outlet type place and bought a telly and a fridge freezer, both to be delivered to the new house when we get in. “