The weekend with fairs, fishing and friends

Hi,


What a good weekend. Friday night Sally went to look after Toby and Mike and I met Andrew at the town hall to see Tim Flannery speak. He was here for the opening of the Writers and Readers festival as a part of the Arts Festival. He had some good things to say about New Zealand's approach to bio diversity and how we need to do much more. After that we ate at the Asian Kitchen on Victoria St and it was very nice food.

I dropped Sally and Andrew off at home and enjoyed my drive back with the music on quite loud. Mike and Toby were almost asleep by the time I got home. Saturday morning Mike and I were up early (the 5.30am wake up during the week means I wake earlier at the weekends now) and Toby and I got breakfast in bed. Then we headed out to Pete Lamb's fishing shop to prepare for Cubs on Tuesday night where we're supposed to take the twenty Cubs fishing! Fishing! Toby has had a fishing rod for three years now and we still hadn't got it working. So we took that in and the nice chat behind the counter got it working for us. We bought bait and got some tips. Then we headed back to go to the Wadestown Fair with Jack. The fair was lovely - such a beautiful day. I ate a sausage, missed all the toffee apples and candy floss though. How did that happen?

Went home and Toby played with Jack for a bit. Then Tom arrived for a sleepover. Then Will arrived for his sleepover. Then Jack left (he didn't have a sleepover!). The three boys played well together. I fed them dinner and they ate it all. Then they wanted Space Chimps 2 and fell asleep easily. Good! We slept on the floor in the lounge on our thermarest mat. My back wasn't too sore in the morning!

The boys were collected and Toby and I prepared to go to Scots for their picnic. But just as we were preparing to leave, it rained. So we switched to the backup plan of lunch at Sally and Andrew's house. Then I nipped into Queensgate with Toby to get sneakers for him and some groceries and we were sorted! Home to prepare for the week ahead.

We drove in this morning, in the rain, because we had an interview with Toby's teacher. He is basically good, but needs to focus. So we're working on his routines with his teacher. He is a leader in his maths group and reads and spells well. But his desk is messy (really messy) and his teacher thought he wasn't doing any spelling. But we thought he only had to do the words he got wrong in his book. Apparently he needs to do them all in his book. And he hadn't been getting many wrong at all.

Ok. Best go get a cup of tea.
Have a good week.

Love,
Angela