Foolishly into April

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On the whole it has been a quiet week, but we have had some good weather. Most of the time it has been sunny, with either clear skies or some cloud. This has meant cool starts to the day, but warming up by mid-morning, and by the afternoon it has been nice and warm. This encouraged me to wash the out side of the windows on Wednesday, and I got the inside of the lounge ones done too before Claire called in.

The library has been busy for Nicky, though I have had a quieter week with just one Mac job. I have been doing some more work on my theoretical pie shop - talking to banks and starting to look at possible premises.

On Thursday after watching Graham Norton on "Who do you think you are?" I was motivated to look up the location of Greasborough, because I knew that the name was familiar but I couldn't exactly place it. So I grabbed the British Road atlas that we keep handy and found it. What was interesting about doing this was looking at the map I had the experience for the first time of feeling that I was just looking at coloured lines wandering over a little known landscape. England looked quite like a foreign country. I think this was because I am so used to visualising driving along the roads and through the junctions as I look at a map, and I am now having difficulty remembering the routes I used to drive and what they looked like so I can no longer associate them with the map.

Yesterday Nicky went up to church early (7am) to start heating up hot cross buns to give away to the shoppers of Blockhouse Bay. She stayed at church to do a prophetic workshop which she found very interesting. I stayed home and did the laundry and continued reading Bill Bryson, and then in the evening we motored up to Parakai for a wallow in the hot pools. Lovely way to end the day.

Today Nicky has been at home having a quiet day while I have been out walking in the Waitakeres with Steve, Alistair Smith, and a number of others, doing part of the Hilary Trail. This is a 70km trail through "challenging wilderness" to commemorate Sir Edmond Hilary. Alistair and friends are doing it in day trips. They started a couple of years ago and may finish it this year! We actually spent almost as much time walking to where they left off from the trail last time as we did doing the trail, but it was good, as was the conversation and the weather.







This weekend we have changed the clocks, going back an hour, so we are now 11 hours ahead of the UK, and the evenings are drawing in. 

Bye for now, take care,
Rick

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