It’s lovely here, fairly warm which is strange. It’s raining today but still quite warm in the house. The phone is on now but we don’t have an actual PHONE – off to get one shortly. At least I can work from home now.
Jan bumped into a woman and her 2 year old with DS at the Waiheke supermarket – the woman was very excited and they are going for a playdate next week. Her little boy is half Japanese and was born in Japan, where the doctors didn’t diagnose him till he was 4 months old. Apparently they said “we didn’t know what a western baby is supposed to look like”! Pathetic! They moved back to NZ for a trial period and ended up staying (she is from Waiheke). Amazing how many expats there are. The phone man who came to install the line yesterday moved back from Perth a year ago but wants to leave again soon.
It is Maori New Year on Saturday, it’s only been revived for a couple of years – it’s called Matariki – so we might go up to the local marae for a hangi. Karen and Dennis and Fred are arriving this afternoon for a weekend on the Island.
I am trying to work on the kitchen table, it’s not going so well, very distracting family having their morning tea! Doh.