Sunday night

Sunday evening and our Tom's back for the next week of school. The family brought him along and we all had birthday cake for his 16th. The Cozens were rather jaded from their family party yesterday and I suppose we were also not at full power after our Oxfam wind-up get -together. it was a great evening depite numbers 30 ish being down from 50 ish last year.

We had a barbie

Then we had prizes (bad ones of course!)

Then beer etc

And a cake

And people chatted bigtime if they weren't watching the pictures of the walk on the big screen

All in all it went well, especially as the rain and wind held off till next morning.

Other news from the week was that we went to the memorial service for the Teacher and children who attended Tom's school. It was at the Telstra stadium down the road and it was filled to overflowing. It was very well organised, the students did a lot of presenting and music and visual presentations. it was very stirring. Even the Mayor of manukau was there. it was broadcast on Rhema radio and on Shine TV I believe.

On a much more minor note I've got some noseplugs so that I don't fill up with water while swimming with my mermaid. more lengths on Friday and less sneezing afterward. Now we'll see how Monday swimming goes. after that its back to gardening (the dreaded backlog), Finding out how to get my electronic project back on track, fixing the spa pool circulator, erecting the shed....etc.......etc...... Maybe get some art in as well, but Friday is definitely Matarangi day!!