All change, again.

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After more than three years at Blockhouse Bay library, Nicky has completed her final week there. As you can imagine she has mixed feelings about this, but she has had a good week (the manager was away). On Friday she contributed peach muffins and individual cheesecakes (little oat biscuit - philly cheese - lemon curd) to a wide range of morning tea goodies. In the evening ten of the staff had dinner at The Block and enjoyed themselves. The personnel issues have been the major downside of working at BHB, but the short commute and being able to come home for lunch will be missed by both of us. Tomorrow she starts at Henderson library with a short day before commencing her Tuesday to Saturday hours. It will mean a change of routine for us, and her weekend being Sunday & Monday may take awhile to get used to, but we will get there and it’s not for ever.

Luna had her annual pamper day up at the garage (service and warrant of fitness) on Tuesday, but due a major problem getting one of the wheels back on she had to stay until early Wednesday afternoon. As a result, I had to move my work in Port Waikato from Wednesday to Friday which made Friday a very long day as I had evening work booked too. The rest of my working week has been quieter than recently but I did do some remote support at the beginning of the week. On Thursday I met up with James for an exercise session walking round Ponsonby which was good, as was our Deep & Meaningful conversation in the evening.

The weather has been pretty good with quite a bit of sunshine, but we had some very heavy rain again towards the end of the week. The weekend however has been gorgeous with clear skies and sunshine, but a crisp cold breeze. We had our coldest night so far last night with our roof space getting down to 4° by the time we were up making the first pot of tea of the day. Tonight will apparently be even colder.

Yesterday after a good late breakfast I picked up our repaired lawn mower battery which Nicky has found a great improvement when using the mower today. Stella came over for Scrabble in the afternoon (Steve and Ros were away) and then we walked down to the cinema as I had booked tickets for us to see Dunkirk (in the very comfy seats). We thought the film was very good and very well made. Afterwards we went to The Brickworks for the first time for dinner at Goode Brothers. Nicky chose warm lamb and walnut salad and I have beef cheek ragu with pasta and we thoroughly enjoyed our choices. It was a good way of marking Nicky’s change in work and having some time together.

Today while Nicky was at church I went to Karekare. The sea was lovely and calm for swimming in, but very cold so I only stayed in for a few minutes. We have had a quiet afternoon and Nicky is currently making savoury scones to go with our tomato soup for tea. I’m quite peckish!

Take care, Rick

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