Hi all,
I hope
everyone is feeling fit & well - its a time of flux for all of us; either
autumn or spring.
Jan will
hopefully be at the Greenhill Orchestra rehearsal tonight, but he got a wasp
sting on his hand yesterday - chopping wood in the shed - and his right hand
has swollen up quite a bit. He has a concert this weekend with Greenhill, over
in Golden Bay, so I hope he has no complications with it. To make sure, he is
heading off to the Doctor this afternoon. After the Greenhill Orchestra his
next concert is the NSO one on 18 September supporting the young soloists, then
in November with 'Scottish Connections' (http://www.nso.org.nz/).
Jan's
study & mine carries on; I have my first case study ready for review, and
have started work on the second one.
We had a
fantastically fine week, then it rained on the weekend, so we still can't seal
our plasterwork. Our worklist still largely exists intact to be done before our
CoC can be applied for, but I am ticking off small jobs inside. A couple of
weeks ago I took Wednesday off and unpacked 24 cartons of books and sorted them
all out. I have two fiction shelves (living area, spare room) and one
non-fiction (hall). Lugging those cartons up the stairs, collapsing the boxes,
sorting, dusting and shelving took all day from 7am until 4.30.
Jan has
had a look at the new drawers that Michael Bender installed, and has made some
small adjustments to them, so yesterday I sorted all our CDs and DVDs and put
them all away. The drawers are fantastic - push them lightly and they spring
open, push them again, and they close. Lovely! Amazingly we had four drawers
free, so I have put our games & puzzles in those. Another couple of cartons
emptied from the garage... inch by inch I am making the room to be able get my
car in the garage! A couple of photos of progress for you to view :-)
This
Saturday just gone we had Jenny L over, and on Sunday we had Tiff, Kevin &
Sandra here for brunch. John Fitz is back from his travels and we caught up
with him the weekend before. Last Wednesday night we went to hear the NZ String
Quartet performing Schumann and Shostakovich, which was great. At the concert
we caught up with Derek & Kate Sherwood, and hopefully Jan & Derek will
get out on the bikes again soon.
Right,
that's all for now. I had better get back to work.
Jan & Sam
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