Winter is upon us

Queen's birthday weekend brought frosty mornings and beautiful days and for us heavy dew on the ground and fog over the valley.

 The ballet focus continues with Boogie winning her first cup for her restricted barefoot dance and a first equal in her age group classical.

 

We also saw the Royal New Zealand Ballet's Coppellia  production - lots of fun and Padfoot only fell asleep in the final Act!  Madam, of course, was spellbound.

Boogie had her school cross-country, running around the school twice and finishing mid-field out of the Year three girls. 

Finally - our boy got to start his first rugby season at Petone Rugby Football Club.  He's been doing lots of training drills and is looking forward to his first ripper rugby game.

 Andrew has found himself helping the groups of kiddies with their drills.  His grandfather would be proud!

 We've started doing a little work on the house including replacing rotten barge boards and sorting out the drainage on the property.  However, the nicest was replacing some lead light windows (held in place by the cobwebs) with new ones.

We had a lovely Queens birthday public holiday on Monday - with beautiful (frosty) weather, Andrew got the kids up early and took them fishing of the wharf in Eastbourne.  No fish were harmed in the cause of this adventure.  One book was finished in there absence - by me - Elenor Caton's Lumineries - yay and fabulous!  We then took the kiddos for a walk down to the old Korokoro dam.