Ups and Downs

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Well, dear reader, it has been a very mixed week. On the up side, I have had a good amount of work, Nicky had a very successful BHB Quilters session, we have had a very enjoyable afternoon tea, and the upgrade of Nikcy’s iPad to iOS8 has not been as traumatic as I thought it might have been. On the down side Nicky has had a couple of days off work with a really bad cold, and Christine, one of the core members of the prison outreach group has died. She went into a hospice early this week and died on Friday. She will be missed.

Most of my work has been in the CBD so I have been going into town on the bus. On Monday I encountered these polar bears in Aotea Square:

I also did some major document editing for a customer in Blenheim via email. We have almost had enough sunny weather to get the washing dried outside, but not quite enough so I had to do a load today. The wind on Tuesday was icy (from the south) and the nighttime low of 6° gave us a very chilly Wednesday morning. 

Nicky came home from work mid-Wednesday afternoon and spent the end of the working week at home. Her cold is improving but moving onto her chest, and with having a busy day today she is tired and aching. The author talk at the library on Tuesday was good, and she started getting things ready for a Matariki display.

Yesterday was very wet. Steve and Stella came over for Scrabble in the morning, Stella stayed for lunch and joined Nicky at BHB Quilters. Attendance was up to 18, and they haven’t been going a year yet, so that’s really good. Today started out better but by the time the washing machine was finished it was raining. I didn’t get the clothes outside until lunchtime. Nicky was in prison this morning, and I made some blueberry muffins to take to the annual naturist polar plunge. There were only three of us this year, and we ended up just having a polar paddle because the water was so cold. 

Nicky had invited to library staff to afternoon tea to celebrate Matariki and the departure of a shelver who has has been a very welcome member of staff. We made food and much was brought and we had a very good couple of hours.



We have had some enjoyable TV viewing this week too. We have just watched the last episode of “Our Girl” (UK series about a London lass who joins the army and goes to Afghanistan). It has been a good series. We binged watched all of “Our Zoo” about the beginnings of Chester Zoo over a couple of evenings, and enjoyed the film “The World’s Fastest Indian”. Anthony Hopkins as good as ever. I now feel obliged to go to Invercargill next time we are in the Deep South.


Take care, Rick

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