Not a bad month

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August has closed with quite a routine week, but for me it has been a good month overall for work. The week has been a mixture of Mac work, shopping, cooking, laundry and ironing, helped by a week with some good sunny spells until the weekend arrived.

Nicky’s working week as been as busy as ever and quite good. She was out on Monday at prison prayer group and up to church on Thursday evening too.

Our most exciting news of the week is the booking of flights to Dunedin for a weeks holiday later in the year. I’ve booked a hire car too and started looking at accommodation over the weekend.

The weekend has been wet, especially yesterday, so pottering round at home and Stella and Steve coming over for Scrabble was ideal. Stella has been very pleased to receive her first pay packet this week.

Today Nicky was doing her annual shift at the Storylines event in the Aotea Centre in town, so I dropped her there just after 8 this morning. She had another good day there, as with previous years, and did another variety of tasks. She especially enjoyed helping with the authors and illustrators session. Something over 3000 people attended the event during the day. I had a quiet day to myself; a stroll up Mt Roskill, a wander round the Wallace Arts Centre, and then watched The Godfather this afternoon which I recorded last night, as I hadn’t seen it in years.

That’s it for this week,

Take care, Rick

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