Reporting from Wint Nelson!

Hi All
Wild and windy Nelson all day today, fine and warm also! A little different to the storm of Wednesday night which opened up over Stoke, closing schools and roads for the day. We just got the tail end of it, the rain was very welcome, not so much the wind tho.

Like the red and black Ashley, very parochial indeed! My purple has no significance! Wonder where the other family members are!!

Planted some more freesias here as well and a few polyanthus out the front. The new planting around the goldfish pond under the stairs is doing really well!

School is busy, our 2nd new caretaker for this term starts next week, he won't need to be much better to be more honest than the last!!

Tim and I joined our school to be the noise crew for the Giants versus the Saints basketball game on Friday night. Giants won by two in the last 30 seconds of the game. They were indeed lucky as the Saints showed much better form and their goals went in! It was noisy, our kids did well and they also won the match with another school at half time!

If you are looking at Aquatic Centres our new one in Richmond is very popular....maybe you could bring your team up this way Ash!! They do very good promotional stuff around the schools and have popular sessions for teenagers on Friday nights as well as running successful Flippa Ball programmes for kids after school during the week. They also do holiday programmes. I guess the day to day running is not what you are looking at at present but the one here has won awards for meeting the public needs. Lisa Stove....you know my friend Gail, her sister is the programme manager here and has given the centre a great profile.

Am busy reading CV's at present as I am the Principal Adviser for the local Catholic School who are appointing anew principal....a bit of a learning curve with all the Catholic bits and pieces but apart from that it is a very interesting process! Am also running some special principal meetings as part of my work at MOE so all in all not much spare time these days!!

Tracey and Tim are good, both lost their games yesterday but played really well...... Tracey is a great goal shoot and flies through the air when they put her at centre! Tim almost scored yesterday but go penalised for holding the ball up....could see the goal line but couldn't get the ball to it and couldn't pass it either!

Willie thinks this is the last week of night time apples......... this new shed works til 11.30 and they are often running late so he is never home before midnight! He is off to Whangarei the weekend after QB to celebrate his dad's 85th birthday.

That's about us here in windy Neslson

Love to all
Janice