Busy bees

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It has been a busy week. For me work has been busier than for a long time, both with on-site and remote support work. Nicky has been busy at the library too, and we have spent a fair chunk of the week starting to organise her trip to the UK. Add to that, we have also purchased and taken delivery of a new washing machine!. It doesn’t get much more exciting than that does it!. Even tough the World Cup has started the games that we are getting on free TV are well before breakfast time so we haven’t got into the swing of it yet.

We went up to church for another Love Languages evening on Monday, and Nicky had life group on Wednesday. There was a request to not park on the grass which is indicative of all the rain we have had recently. As the week has progressed it has got dryer and a little warmer, but more rain is on it’s way.

Being without a washing machine for a week required another exciting trip to the laundrette for me. I managed to get the ironing done yesterday morning before Nicky pinched the necessary equipment for her to take to quilting. Steve and Stella came over for Scrabble which Nicky and I  followed with spicy fruit muffins for tea.

Today started better than we expected with clear skies so I went to Karekare for the first time in ages while Nicky was at church. We have spent the afternoon listening to an audio book while Nicky sewed and I made a 1½kg pork pie. This evening we have continued with our watching of Borgen series 2 (which we have been doing throughout the week) and have finished it. It has been very good and we can highly recommend it. We look forward to starting series 3 next week!


Take care, Rick.

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