Monday, September 01, 2008

Ugh, back to school

Happy spring day to all of you in the southern hemisphere. I hope you all wore floral clothing. Our spring hasn’t started yet, of course, but it doesn’t really start at any point – there’s just a slow waft into the next season. We woke up late this morning after the busy weekend, and I only just had time to vacuum the lounge where I had left little beads scattered about, before starting school. It was tedious to be back at school – all three of us really struggled. The boys just couldn’t sit still and I really didn’t feel like doing school. But we got through all of today’s work including a new read aloud called “Mrs Piggle Wiggle” which is highly entertaining. Directly after lunch we left for town with a list of things to fetch, buy, drop off or do. First port of call was Steve and Maureen’s place though, to pick up their car and put a vase of fresh flowers (picked by Caleb) on the table. Then we stopped off at the manse for a few things before going into town for some stuff. At 2 pm we were waiting at the docks to welcome Steve and Maureen back. Elza was also waiting at the docks so we chatted for a while. S&M took about 45 minutes to appear, and it was wonderful to see them again. We caught up briefly at the docks and then parted ways – they to go home and have a quick cup of tea before returning to collect their luggage, and us to go home. Unfortunately though we were parked in, so wandered up the road to buy a cooldrink and then to sit at Castle Gardens and wait. Fortunately we didn’t have to wait too long, but it was an unnecessary delay anyway. We were home by about 4 pm, which gave me time to sew curtain tape on the bathroom curtains and hang them, as well as hanging two net curtains in the diningroom area, before starting supper of tuna casserole.

During tenzees this morning I needed to hang up washing but it was starting to drizzle. I had a good look in the tiny storeroom to see if there was any potential for stringing up a washline as it’s dry inside. Nick and I thought it would work, but also had a look in the garage for the first time. I had to call Nick to open the garage door as I wasn’t sure how to lift it – turns out it was just a regular swivel door like we used to have at 6 Protea Road. The garage was quite clean and empty except for one packing box, so I swept it out and it’s actually usable now for the car. I don’t know why we didn’t open it straight away! The boys discovered that they can easily climb onto the garage roof by first climbing up the wall in the courtyard which has nice open spaces for footholds. The kittens like to sit in the spaces and look out at the world, very cute. While we were outside examining the garage etc, the fish van came by, so we bought a big chunk of tuna. Isn’t it great that fresh (frozen) fish gets delivered practically to our front door?

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