Major developments

The big news this week is we've bought a house, the one we've been renting in fact, so no need to move at the end of the year. The children are pretty happy about the propect of staying put for the next while and Chris is full of plans for insulating and installing at least one, if not two heat pumps. Yay. The vege garden is expanding and we are planning on making one or two changes to the backyard as well, with some plants to come out and I'd really like to get some sunflowers in somewhere!

We've just spent a weekend at Pounawea, a Christian camp on the coast near Owaka. The occasion was the annual Family camp run by Mosgiel, very laid back. Our speaker was Nigel Winder, the Scripture Union rep from down south who was just superb.

The children are pretty shattered as we had a late night before camp with going to the Dunedin City Baptist production of Prince Caspian. The children loved the play however, and it is now school holidays so we will take it easy for the next few days and have some early nights.

Hannah is getting a big sick of the rugby as Zack is up early to watch the games and she would rather watch cartoons. She is also getting a bit sick of providing opposition for scrum practise! Coming up next weekend is Samstock - we are praying for warm weather!!!