Heatwaves

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It’s February already - where does the time go? Earlier this week I heard what I think is a good definition of a heatwave: five consecutive days of the temperature being 5º above normal. In England the media seemed to think that a heat wave was a couple of hours of sunny weather on a summers day when it didn’t rain and it was a little warmer than usual. Our “proper” heatwave has come to an end this week, with a big storm system arriving on Thursday and it’s trailing rain and clouds will be with us for another day or two yet.

Monday was Auckland Anniversary Day and the last public holiday of January. Nicky had not slept well so I left her in bed while I had my first pot of tea of the day. We had a late breakfast on The Rattigan before it got too hot, and we had tea there too when it was cooling down. In between we had a quiet day of pottering, sewing and ironing. We have been into town before for all the Anniversary events and just felt like having a quiet day at home.

The schools are open again now, so the traffic is back to “normal” and the library has been busy all week. I have had a good week of work which included flying to and from Nelson on Wednesday to do a complete rebuild and upgrade of a Mac. The customer used to live in Auckland and I have been providing remote support but for this work I needed to be in front of the machine. It’s the first time I’ve been to Nelson (what little I saw looked interesting) and the first time I have flown on business for 25 years. This was my view of Mt Taranaki on the way home:


The weekend has been cooler and we had lots of rain yesterday, so I dried the washing inside and also got it ironed. Nicky played Scrabble at Stella’s after work and we watched the film Mr Holmes in the evening, which was gentle and enjoyable. Today has been dryer and cooler.


Take care, Rick

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