Timaru tidings
We spent Saturday night in Timaru, and this is what happened.
Zachary stepped up and stepped into the wall cavities to help Chris and Barry Clearwater re-wire bits of the house for computer stuff (if you want to know exactly, please ask Chris.) So, my baby boy, complete with headlamp has been crawling under the house, into crawl spaces and between the wall, happy as a chimney sweep. I've always thought of chimney sweeps as oppressed, a dire blight on Dickensian society, but I was wrong. Zach loved it! We also had to bring his bike back because he wants to participate in a biathlon on Monday week.
Hannah has her 'class critter' home for the weekend, so we spent Sunday taking photos of Hannah and said critter ( a stuffed, white, baby eagle) in various poses around the church and on the way back to Dunedin. Katarina has downloaded the photos onto a memory stick to take to school tomorrow. Ah, the wonders of technology!
Janine and Katarina have exams this week, so they are busy procrastinating so they don't have study. I have bought them a protractor each to replace the ones that were a) lost and b) broken, so at least that excuse has been dealt with.
We have lots of ballet practices. Katarina is going to be a runner for the performances on Friday, and Saturday. Mum is coming down on Saturday to see Hannah's ballet, and hear Zach's song.
I am currently checking footnotes and hope to finish that, and get a final draft of my thesis in this week.
Chris is staying in Timaru this week. He is meeting lots of people, and one of our parishoners turns out to be distant family, through marriage. While her husband has died, she had a photo album which, once they realised the connection, she was more than happy to give to us to get to my dad in Oamaru. The photos have raised a number of questions. Turns out there could be quite a lot of distant family in Timaru, as well as a cousin of mine. The great great's lived in Burkes Pass, and so their children, grand-children etc. have tended to drift into Timaru.
Zachary stepped up and stepped into the wall cavities to help Chris and Barry Clearwater re-wire bits of the house for computer stuff (if you want to know exactly, please ask Chris.) So, my baby boy, complete with headlamp has been crawling under the house, into crawl spaces and between the wall, happy as a chimney sweep. I've always thought of chimney sweeps as oppressed, a dire blight on Dickensian society, but I was wrong. Zach loved it! We also had to bring his bike back because he wants to participate in a biathlon on Monday week.
Hannah has her 'class critter' home for the weekend, so we spent Sunday taking photos of Hannah and said critter ( a stuffed, white, baby eagle) in various poses around the church and on the way back to Dunedin. Katarina has downloaded the photos onto a memory stick to take to school tomorrow. Ah, the wonders of technology!
Janine and Katarina have exams this week, so they are busy procrastinating so they don't have study. I have bought them a protractor each to replace the ones that were a) lost and b) broken, so at least that excuse has been dealt with.
We have lots of ballet practices. Katarina is going to be a runner for the performances on Friday, and Saturday. Mum is coming down on Saturday to see Hannah's ballet, and hear Zach's song.
I am currently checking footnotes and hope to finish that, and get a final draft of my thesis in this week.
Chris is staying in Timaru this week. He is meeting lots of people, and one of our parishoners turns out to be distant family, through marriage. While her husband has died, she had a photo album which, once they realised the connection, she was more than happy to give to us to get to my dad in Oamaru. The photos have raised a number of questions. Turns out there could be quite a lot of distant family in Timaru, as well as a cousin of mine. The great great's lived in Burkes Pass, and so their children, grand-children etc. have tended to drift into Timaru.
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