It is the first day of the school holidays and Ginny and Hank are playing games and hanging out together. Nothing special apart from the fact that she is in Olympia and he is in Dunedin. I am still amazed by technology.
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We lost our beloved Uncle Morris this evening. We loved him dearly. He will be missed. The distance has never been as far as it is tonight. I would give anything to curl up with my mum and mourn him together. I love you mum. I love you Uncle Morris. You’ll never be forgotten.
Here is a website with family pictures, http://www.mem.com/Story.aspx?ID=2202712, including my grandfather, Henry Robinson and grandmother, Virginia Robinson, Hank and Ginny’s namesakes.
After a couple of days recovering from our aborted fishing trip, we took Wes to the airport yesterday morning for the 24 hour trip home. As I write this, he should be arriving in Seattle. We had a great time visiting with him and I think he had a great time too.
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Published 20 October, 2007 car , cricket , family , fishing , holiday , rugby , school , squash , video , weather 1 CommentI haven’t written in a while. Sorry about that. Not much to say.
We’re starting the Labour Day holiday weekend, but it kind of sneaked up on us so we didn’t make any big plans. It feels so soon after the kids and Fa’s holidays too. The weather isn’t supposed to be great either. We’re just sticking close to home, maybe rent some video.
We got back into our regular schedule this past week.
Ginny had a social studies quiz competition the other day, put on by the Otago Daily Times. We don’t know how well her team did (with Alycia and Kayleigh), but do know they weren’t in the top three, so didn’t get a prize. They had fun, though.
Hank has swimming on Fridays at the Moana Pool. I volunteered to help this week, not realizing what I was getting myself into. I took the better kids, including Hank, and had them do some strokes for me for about 20 minutes, before they mutinied on me and just played around in the water. It was fun but kind of like herding cats.
What else? Fa got her grades from last module: All A’s – best yet. She and her syndicate went to Lawrence to visit the business they’re working with this module.
I played squash three times – lost all three, but each time went five games.
Had the oil changed in the car. Oil, like petrol and diesel, is super expensive. Around $10 litre (about a quart). Diesel is getting up again – $1.169/litre. Not to up on petrol, but I think it’s around $1.70/litre.
Got a haircut.First one in New Zealand. Probably the longest I’d gone since High School.
Hank has started cricket, but the first game was rained out and the second canceled for the holiday. Hopefully, next Saturday he’ll get to play.
I’ve been playing around with our webcam, pointing it out the back window and having it save every 5 minutes to the “About” page here on the blog, but it often fails. Sometimes the camera doesn’t show an image, or the site I’m ftp’ing it to (Comcast) doesn’t work, which is happening right now. Check again and you may see a new picture every once in a while.
Even without the All Black’s, we’re still watching the Rugby World Cup. Tomorrow’s final should be great. I don’t know why, but I’m rooting for the English. Probably because I just hate South Africa. I guess it’s my generation: growing up when the RSA was the great evil in the world, with Apartheid and Nelson Mandela and all that. Silly now, of course, but you kind of wonder why there are maybe two black players on the team.
Weather should be getting better in the next few weeks, so hopefully I can do some fishing. Too much rain lately has muddied the rivers. A week of dry weather and I’ll be sweet as.
Congratulations to my brother and sister-in-law Chris and Leah Niemi on the birth of their son, Asher Zachary Niemi, on Thursday 6/14/2007 at 1:54a.m. in Boise, ID, USA. He is 10 lbs, 4 oz (4.65 kg), and 21.5 inches long (54.6cm), with dark hair and eyes.
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