i’ve been rebuilding jane’s computer over the last 24 hours and i think it’s now done. hoorah
the girls had their orchestra thing this morning and jane went for a run. then it was back here for a curly wurly (british booty brought by ian last week – thanks guys !)
then this afternoon we went bowling to test a place where esther is thinking of having her birthday party in a month’s time.
it was all a bit retro and not the modern places we used to frequent in Reading/Bracknell/Maidenhead.
The shoes looked like they had seen much better days
but according to jane this place was much more modern than the other place she’d been to in NZ.
the girls enjoyed it, so it passed the test for esther’s party
it was a bit of a trip down memory lane actually.
i seem to remember these machine in Nottingham in the 1980s
which is just a handy way of showing you the final scores. didn’t i do well
after that we went geocaching round takapuna lake, which is an old volcano cone
even though it’s only a few 10s of metres from the sea, it’s filled with fresh water
there were quite a few canoes about, and some birds like the pukeko above and something else below
it was also really rainy in a showery kind of way. they really have extremely wet rain here which is very productive, and very dampening
here’s a shop call crafty knitwits.
then this evening we went round to some people’s house from church for ‘dinners at 8’ where we met 3 other couples who we didn’t really know and talked about life. and rather too many medical things for my liking, but i managed not to pass out.
it’s raining quite hard now, so i best finish off in case the lights trip … see yas.