there’s been two lots of union actions in new zealand recently: there’s the actors one which has backfired rather dramatically as it now looks like the Hobbit may be filmed somewhere else. And there’s a teacher’s strike going on for secondary schools which has been less well covered in the news although there’s a nice cartoon of little john key (we like to say it like ‘little donkey’, the christmas song and we thought we were very original until i noticed it in the cartoon) here
esther and kezia had half days at school because their teachers went to a union meeting, but i’m not sure how related that was to the strikes. anyway, they didn’t mind
esther went to the cinema with her friends from her class. they saw something involving an owl and it was one of esther’s favourite movies so far. And Kezia washed our cars and had fun with jane
this evening i’ve had a work call to the UK then some urgent requests from the Telecom regulator i needed to deal with so it’s all been a bit busy
i’m working from home tomorrow and then we’ve got a long weekend so i’m already feeling a little demob happy. although stupidly i bought a weekly bus pass on wednesday which i’ll only use three day of. oh well.
and there’s a van selling fresh strawberries on the main road near our house.