End of term-ish

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The week has been one of opposing gradients in terms of work. The library has closed today for refurbishment, and the borrowers seem to have switching allegiance to other venues in the run up. As the week has progressed, the library has been getting quieter.

My Mac work on the other hand, has gradually increased throughout the week, culminating in a long day on Friday and continuing into Saturday. A customer who I have worked with since 2008 moved to Port Waikato a while back and called me in for some major system restructuring. By 5pm on Friday I knew then next process was going to take around 5 hours, so even though the drive is an hour and a quarter each way, I decided it would be better to leave at that point and return fresh on Saturday afternoon. So, after breakfast yesterday morning I zipped over to Henderson to by network cabling, and then after a pot of tea on the sofa with Nicky headed off to Port Waikato again.

Nicky spent the rest of the lovely warm and sunny Saturday pottering round the house, doing ironing, lawn mowing and rehanging the net curtains in the garage. I got back about 6.45pm and we had soup and scones and fresh bread and cheese which was lovely, before enjoying some time with the tellybox.

Today Nicky has been in prison, so I finished the ironing and pottered in the office. Stella came over for Scrabble and we chatted while they played and I stewed gifted apples (the apples were given to us, they were not especially intelligent ones or anything. Honestly (read that in an exasperated Hermione voice)).

The weather is still mild but we have had some rain this week. I made my very first nut loaf on Monday and it turned out very well, very tasty. For a Mother’s Day gift Claire sent a chopping board which Ryan had made. It arrived on Tuesday and is a just glorious piece of carpentry. Not sure anything will ever get cut on it!


Take care, Rick.

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