Territorial tui

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 Summer officially started on Friday, and it was a lovely sunny day. We had arranged to go over to Palmerston North in the afternoon to see Kat, Israel and Ari, and deliver the quillow that Nicky had sewn for Ariadne. Nicky made some fruit buns to take with us. Israel had made wholemeal bread and hummus to go with carrot sticks, so we had a lovely afternoon tea and catch up. Ari is now 9 months old and as cute as you would expect. They are off to Mexico for Christmas to visit Israel’s family.


Numerous tui have been enjoying our flax flowers this week, and at one point three of them were disputing whose flax it is. Trying to get a good photograph has been a challenge. This is the best that I have managed:



We came 5th at the quiz this week, with only 98 points. The winning teams earned 101 points, so we weren’t as far behind as our placing suggests. The music round was terrible for us. On Tuesday evening Nicky had a brief visit to church with her home group to present the Bible Friends with the Christmas cards and gifts that her Home Group had organised. Nicky had knitted wee Christmas “gift” tree decorations for each of theses intellectually handicapped adults.


The rest of the week has been very routine. We have got some more weeding done, cut the grass, and done laundry. Nicky didn’t have any visitors to the Aramoho Library on Thursday, but I have done a little MacOnSite work.


Yesterday was also a lovely sunny day. Nicky was supposed to be going to an Advent Retreat and then an Ordination Service, but she woke with a very sore throat so stayed home and missed out. I had a good sailing, and today wasn’t as wet as I had expected, so the trip on the river was pleasant. Nicky was on the hospitality team at church this morning and collected me from the wharf afterwards.


Take care, Rick and Nicky.

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