it’s felt a long week. a weak week you might say, but we made it to friday.
i finally completed all the data stuff i was doing at work and that got dispatched to the regulator this afternoon.
jane had a tough class at school today but had a nice time at her tupperware party. she went with the wife of the chaplain at the school she teaches at so that was good for meeting a different crowd of people.
jane said there were plenty of poms there by the sounds of it. we’re poms ourselves of course but we’ve tended not to hang out with other brits, so it’s quite funny being around a group of brits. anyway …
we seem to be in a nice pattern at work of going out for lunch on fridays, so simon, sasha and i went to a local brewery. we’d decided to go there ages ago, but the appalling weather encouraged us to seek warmth.
i had a teeny weeny half of beer which was soon absorbed thanks to the sausage and mash and walk down and up a hill to get back to the office
here’s a cyclist in a tutu
then this evening the girls had their swimming lesson. And esther spent the day here doing rope courses and problem solving exercises in the car park (!) as part of her student leadershipness and was supervised by kids from the senior high school.
the weather is quite rubbish at the moment. here are some pictures from the newspaper of nearby Tamaki Drive (just in town near Kelly Tarlton’s fish place) showing the wetness. it’s going to be another rainy day tomorrow, even promising 3 metre waves on the normally calm east coast. exciting !
we’re doing much better than Mount Hutt which is not too far from Christchurch where we were on holiday last month. news story of trapped skiers due to high winds and avalanches here