The weekend in Wellington

 Hi,

What a busy weekend - packed a lot in. Let's see...

Friday saw me busy on my day off. The groceries arrived at 11am or so. They got packed away. Then I was off on my bike into town for many things. Parked my bike at work which is so handy for a safe, central place for my bike when I am in town.

First - off to the school strike for climate change. Big group of high school students in civic square supported by a lot of older people. All concerned about climate change and the damage the current government looks set to inflict on us all with their backwards views on climate change.

Civic square

Let's go!

Hey Michelle!

Bumped into two people I knew - Richard from work and Michelle from the Hutt. :-)  Started marching with them, but pulled out as we went into Lambton Quay to go meet Andrew for lunch at Machete.

Iced latte goodness at Machete

Got my haircut after that. Very nice it was too. Chatted to the person that shampooed my hair about her ADHD. And Jolene sorted out my unruly locks.

Off to the gym. Bench for a bit. Then a run for 3km. Then ride back home.

Saturday saw us not get up for park run for me and volunteering for Mike. We stayed in bed for a bit. Then up to start our day. Mike was on a mission to reassemble the Subaru dashboard. And I was heading off to Levin with Elly for a Poua v Blue rugby game.

Elly picked me up at 12.25pm and off we went, up through Transmission Gully and into Levin. Tried to get some chicken feed for her chooks, but they were shut. Then a quick grab of lunch in New World and we were settling into the game. $10 entry. Nice wee crowd. Blues were in complete control and looked amazing. Manawa will have to be on their game to beat them.

Rugby in Levin

This was good!

Anne from work had mentioned this canned iced coffee so I grabbed it from New World. And it was really very good. Best canned coffee I have tried. Woot!

After the game, we visited Elly's friend Brian and his daughter in Levin. We were fed delicious cooked chips fresh from the oven. Mmmm.

Car dashboard all assembled

Elly and I headed to Mana to get some fuel for the car - and Mike came to collect me there. From Mana, Mike and I headed to Saly and Andrew's for a wonderful tea. And watched some TV. Then home.

Up Sunday for gym fun. We drove to meet Quentin at the Willis St gym and got the trap bar off him. I was surprised to discover it weighed 40kg on its own. Got it outside and Mike came around with the car. It is now in the garage, ready for some workout sessions. Then off to Lower Hutt gym. Run for me and Mike - his calf was ok for 5k on the treadmill. I did bench with Sally after my run. Andrew joined us for brekkie afterwards.  Then back to their place to shower before going to see Dune part 2.

Convention centre cafe Sunday

Mike - what are you doing?

Selfie!

Here we are!

Before the movie - relaxing

So ready for this - again

Dune 2 was just as good the second time. I think it really is a top 5 for me now. Maybe. Well - part 1 and 2 together.

Headed home and found Tom and Elly had left us some feijoas from their friends up north. And I got stuck into a lot of them for my dinner. Mmmmm.

Feijuba Eats! Yes - 5 stars!

First of the season - delicious

I continue to ravage the bag of feijoas

Off to bed. Good sleep. Mike up for gym and work. I am working from home. Lovely Monday here in Wellington.

Awesome but busy weekend. :-)

Have a great week.

Love,

Angela

The Wednesday working from home

 Hi,

Well, I have no photos to show off. This is what working from home does to you. Mike and I worked from home all day.

We were feeling pretty shattered after work. Had some tea and had a bath and then went to bed. As I went to bed, my phone said there was a software update. So I kicked that off. And when it restarted, it demanded a Samsung login. I could do nothing else with it. Bricked. Because... what on earth was my Samsung account? I had never used it. Mike checked on his phone for info on it. Seems like I need a PC to sort it.

So off to sleep. Mike got a better sleep than the night before. My sleep was better - but still not great.

I did my PT session at home with Mike's phone. Good session. Arms and shoulders. Lucky I can still type!

Mike drove in for his session. Then after that he will take the car to Northland garage for a huge service. Brakes. Goodness knows what else. And he will ride his bike home to work here.

Let's see what happens there.

Have a great weekend!

Love,

Angela

The Tuesday back at work

 Hi,

We landed at Wellington airport Tuesday morning and caught the AX bus back into town. Mike used his Snapper card to snap us both on. The bus got pretty full. It left at 8.10am and we were at our desk at work at 8.30am.

Dunedin airport iced latte

Work is renovating so there was a lot of disruption in the office. And not many people were there at all. But Mike and I armed ourselves with caffeine and it was all good.

Work iced latte

We bussed home together after work. The cats were waiting for us. Mike fed them and then we ate some tea.

We were not long out of bed. But we both slept poorly. Up for gym Wednesday morning. We drove in and back.

Squats day.

WFH today and for the rest of the week. Interested to see how the office looks next week.

Have a great day!

Love,

Angela

The weekend with Easter in Dunedin

 Hi,

What a lovely weekend to Dunedin. So good to see Polly and Toby and get a few things done. Thanks to Ange for looking in on the cats too.

We flew down from Wellington on Wednesday night; Thursday saw us working from home at Polly's place. That worked fine. I was upstairs and Mike was in the extension downstairs. Toby arrived on his early morning flight from Christchurch and settled in.

It was cold! Brrrr.

Took a lunch break with everyone to No 7 Balmac. Mmmmm.

Visiting No 7 Balmac

Cold our first day

Iced latte is good here

Good Friday saw us busy with skip loading. Polly had already done a lot on Thursday while we worked. But today we emptied the loft.

Skip slowly getting filled up

Old oils

Old 303 bullets

We found these bullets and gave them to Richard to store safely. He did some research. They were made in Melbourne. In Footscray. In 1942! Yeah - we don't know how they ended up in Polly's loft either.

And the loft is clear

We went to the museum and met Hamish and Ryan there. Loved looking around that place. And the iced latte got top marks.

Museum visit with Hamish and Ryan

Mike spies the background

And blows a kiss

This guy always fascinated me

Museum iced latte was top notch

Mummies

Whale

Look at the fin bones!

Casts showing human evolution

We went out shopping for a few things. And I took the boys to Vogel St kitchen. they loved it there!

Checking out food at Vogel St Kitchen

Good coffee

Old mills

We put petrol in the wee white car and I took a photo of the old Roslyn woollen mills. Now a self storage place.

Run to Roslyn

Easter Egg rolling

Copper iced latte

Easter Egg rolling on Sunday in the park down the road. And bumped into Sheila Williams on our walk back. Good to see she is keeping well.

Action shot

Hello Mrs Williams!

Monday Toby wanted to explore gold fields. So we borrowed the Jazz and drove to Golden Progress Mine to poke around there. So good. There is a restored miner's cottage and a huge poppet head over the 45m deep mine shaft.

Exploring central

Golden Progress mine

The poppet head

Riveting stuff - old boiler

Scenery

Hawthorn. No reflection on AFL support

Oturehua cafe and pub

Went to see where the Brass Monkey Rally is held and then popped in for a lovely lunch. Cheese rolls for me. Mmmmm.

Looking back at the pub from the store

Off to Nenthorn

Wedderburn

Nenthorn - the old hotel

Wooden sill still good

Would have been bleak in winter

Good view from up here

Weather came good

Little building

Not sure what it is

From lunch we headed to Nenthorn. I had never been there. It was great fun. Gravel road. We poked around at Nenthorn Conservation area. Not much there. An old hotel. That is about it. One other small building. No signs.

Then 40km from there to SH1 across excellent gravel roads with stunning views. There is a DoC campsite too not too far up from SH1. Remember that!

Back home to cook tea and then an early bed.

Up at 4.30am. Uber to the airport for our early flights to our respective homes.

And at work now.

Great weekend. Thank you.

Love,

Angela