A Beautiful weekend ....

After all the rain that we've had recently it was fantastic to see the sun out this weekend, especially as the forecast was for sleet and snow!! It was as a good Christchurch winter's day should be ... chilly but with beautiful blue skies. In fact in the sun it was actually nice and warm. So on Saturday we spent the morning at home - sorting a few things out .. one of which was our second delivery of wood which had to be shifted from the drive to the wood shed. All the boys pulled together and with a bit of teamwork got it all under cover by the end of the afternoon.

Today after a morning at the library we headed off to the Gondola. We have an annual pass so quite often go up there as the boys love it. Today was no exception. After a ride up in the gondola we had a wee look at the spectacular views then inside for a hot choc before a short walk outside and the return down and back home.

Scotland's 2026 World Cup strike partnership

Today the boys came home to find a parcel in the letterbox from their Aunty Flea who is now definitely one of my favourite sisters-in-law. For inside was their birthday presents (or was it Christmas?!!). Two Scotland tops to get them used to playing in the shirt and to strike fear into the opposition.

So the future of Scottish football should be safe with Cameron being the tall target man up front and Ewan being more of the silky ball player terrorising the opposition defence. Realistically Finlay will be the goalie!

Yesterday was a holiday here so I took the boys into town and met up with Liz, Sharon, a couple of Pauls and loads of kids at the museum. There was an exhibition on the body which was quite good 'cos the boys could run around and enjoy themselves which isn't always appreciated by other museum patrons! After that we jumped on a tram using our very well-worn family pass (they'll being greeting us by name soon) then went for an ice cream and a walk through the botanics and a quick (well it was a tad chilly!) play in the park before heading home. Thanks to everyone there for a great day.Cameron in the museum
The kids outside
Cameron sporting his new toothless grin
Ewan burning off energy

More things to do in the rain

I remember netball as being this daft wee game that girls played at school while the rest of us were playing football. But in NZ it's huge. The top players are household names with advertising contracts and one of them picked up something in the Queen's birthday honours yesterday.

So a week or two ago when it was raining (again!) we went along to a game between the Canterbury Tactix and the Central Pulse in the trans-tasman championship.

Canterbury won but other than that I couldn't tell you much about the game but it was a good atmosphere and more importantly the boys were able to shout as loud as they wanted and no-one cared!