military remembrance

church today was followed by a quick dash in to the village for the ANZAC day service.  Esther is a school leader so needed to be there to help lay the flowers. 

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it was in the local community hall which made for some great signage.  And it was really busy so we had to stand all the way through.  still, it was a lot warmer than the Rememberance day services in the UK !

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after the service there were big sponge cakes and sandwiches with the crusts cut off.

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we didn’t eat any, but instead we went back to some friends’ house for pizza and chatting.  both of which were jolly good.

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after that we drove down to Devonport and had a walk along the beach

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it’s still really warm – the car said 26degC, although it started to cool off later.  it was still warm enough to justify an ice-cream though !

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that thing above is not an ice-cream.  it’s a tree weta which was splatted on a footpath we walked down. 

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and just as we nearly got back to the car this giant cruise ship (seen in yesterday’s bus photo) came round the corner.

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this evening i went out to the first of four seminars on the life of Paul.  this picture was taken before everyone turned up.  i sat on a sofa which was nice.  and the seminar was excellent !

by the way, i’ve still got one more day of easter holiday photos to show you – hopefully i’ll get them up this week.