The routine that comes with having a Monday to Friday job
means that our lives have changed. Many of the jobs around the house, garden or
land have to get done in the daylight that remains when we get home or the weekend.
I now have a Friday feeling at the end of the week as well as a Monday morning
feeling. The job has started well. I am having to get to know the workings of
the centre quickly, before the lead tutor goes off on maternity leave in Sept.
The work is fairly intensive, with little or no time to get admin done until
the students go home. We have meetings
in the afternoon, but at least I get paid the extra time. The mornings are
still too cold and dark to cycle to work, but in another couple of weeks that
should change.
We have been in the sea for our July dip. It was cold and as
we aren’t wearing wetsuits for our monthly challenge, we only stayed in for a
minute or less. We have also done a couple of bike races. Today we raced in
warm sunshine and it almost felt like spring was just around the corner. Our
garden continues to produce colour every month. We have done a lot of pruning bushes
and shrubs and then we are putting the cuttings through a mulcher we borrowed
from a friend. We spent 2 days mulching and we will put the mulch on the flower
beds to keep down the weeds. We also had some gum trees topped and mulched. There
was an article in the local paper about the benefits of using Alpaca poo in
your garden and it has caused an increase in Llama poo sales at the end of our
drive.
As well as these ‘jobs’, we also have Wheelie stuff to do,
as this is the time of the year when adverts etc are set up for the season
ahead. Our second car is now marked up
with our logo etc.
Now the Olympics have started, we may have to be awake at
various times of the night to see the action live. We have bought a myfreeview
box so that we can record some events. The kiwis are all very supportive of the
team and very optimistic that they could bring home a good few medals. I am sure if the excitement of the Olympics has
made it here, it must be mega in the UK.
