We hope that all of you have had a good break from the usual routine and have enjoyed a bit of a break over the Easter week-end. It seems that Hamilton 'empties' over holidays like this one, and lots of folks that we have met, go away for a few days and spend relaxing time with their families beside the sea, or otherwize, just somewhere quiet.
The weather has been quite mild for the whole weekend with very little rain and temperatures not too cold - some of the folks at the Easter Service were still in very summery outfits but personally, it's just a little cool for the spaghetti strap, bare midrif look for me.
There are also folks who take the attitude that if everyone leaves Hamilton for a couple of days, then they stay put and enjoy being able to relax at home - the shops are less busy than usual and the parking in the city is not as difficult to come by as is usually the case.
We have been pottering around at home for the past couple of days, spending a bit of time in the garden getting some of the 'jungle look' sorted out and lolling about in front of the TV and ejoying a couple of movies which we took out at the library last week. Our neighbours, Sam and Steph took their three kids with them for a few days beside the sea so we could raid their garden shed for the lawnmower and fed the cats while we were about it.
Jo will need to to a bit of studying today, since his heavy duty vehicle license expires one of these days and he has made application to have it converted to a NZ compliant one - this apparently involves a written exam and so he is armed with the relevant books and will be brushing up on all his knowledge so the exam is just a formality! We don't know if he will ever really NEED to have the license, but as he said, if you don't have it, then somewhere along the line, you wish that you had just done the thing!
The weather has been quite mild for the whole weekend with very little rain and temperatures not too cold - some of the folks at the Easter Service were still in very summery outfits but personally, it's just a little cool for the spaghetti strap, bare midrif look for me.
There are also folks who take the attitude that if everyone leaves Hamilton for a couple of days, then they stay put and enjoy being able to relax at home - the shops are less busy than usual and the parking in the city is not as difficult to come by as is usually the case.
We have been pottering around at home for the past couple of days, spending a bit of time in the garden getting some of the 'jungle look' sorted out and lolling about in front of the TV and ejoying a couple of movies which we took out at the library last week. Our neighbours, Sam and Steph took their three kids with them for a few days beside the sea so we could raid their garden shed for the lawnmower and fed the cats while we were about it.
Jo will need to to a bit of studying today, since his heavy duty vehicle license expires one of these days and he has made application to have it converted to a NZ compliant one - this apparently involves a written exam and so he is armed with the relevant books and will be brushing up on all his knowledge so the exam is just a formality! We don't know if he will ever really NEED to have the license, but as he said, if you don't have it, then somewhere along the line, you wish that you had just done the thing!
We are feeling bad about the nasty things we said about the Super 14 South African rugby teams not performing too well - Thanks Mom for the update about the Sharks being beaten by the Cheetahs! Hooray for them! We organised for Sky TV to be installed here in the course of last week since we don't want to have to bum television time at our various neighbours forever, and have started trying to see some of the more relevant games. We just hadn't got as far as watching that one, so Jo is now, even as I sit here and write this blog, trying to see if he can't russle up a replay somewhere on the vast array of channels available to us. I think the vehicle licence book has been abandoned for better things for the moment!
Our local rugby team is the Waikato Chiefs and they are not doing too well either! Last time we looked at the log, both the Chiefs and the Cheetahs were equally low down and somewhat sad looking, but who knows, maybe they know something we don't.
On a completely different note - who knows what 'Manchester' is? At the moment, there are sales on at lots of the bigger stores - everything from 'whiteware' to 'electronics', 'linen' and 'bedding'. Manchester is also at an all time low so what is it?
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Hi Jannie, het jy onthou om die rante van die gras by die beddings af te steek? Dit lyk nog nie reg die foto"tjie nie hoor! Lief vir julle.
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