swim swam swum

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here’s jane’s parents planning their itinerary for the next four weeks.  they’ve got everything they need.  a calendar, a map of auckland, coffee and chocolate

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here are some lollies (sweets) i saw outside a supermarket at lunch

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kezia had her swimming try out for a swimming squad today and passed the test.  she’ll now go on a waiting list for swimming sessions twice a week

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then they both had violin lessons whilst granny and party (i’ll use their familiar names) went for a walk down long bay

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we had barbie burgers for tea and jane’s mum was quite distracted by the local bird life (rather than implying we’d given her small portions)

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this evening esther and kezia took them for a walk up to the library and the play park whilst jane mowed the lawn and i sold my ticket to the big day out to a young chap who is more ready to party than i am.  he probably also doesn’t have his parents in law staying and isn’t going to be driving down to Rotorua the next day and hasn’t run out of leave days at work.  so you can’t blame him (and i got my money back on the ticket so that’s good)

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here’s the pacific pearl which they should rename the pacific hurl as it’s spent the last couple of weeks out in the churny seas of the pacific.  we know this as debbie’s brother was on it and abandoned their holiday half way through and flew home !

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here’s is today’s wine.  it went down a treat.  he said it was ‘VG’, but not ‘VVG’.   a high benchmark so early in the wine tasting, so we’ll see where we go from here !

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