Work rest and play

Wow, it's a whole month since I wrote my last update - I'm slacking! I've started working in a fruit packhouse to get some cash together, as I haven't heard from any graphics jobs yet. I have some of my watercolour paintings on sale in a gallery and a souvenir shop, and I'm still painting when I get the time, so hopefully I can get a stall together before too long. Toni is going to start a pottery course next week, so we'll need our own studio soon!

Last Friday was a special day as both my Dad and Toni celebrated their birthdays! We had all of Toni's family around on the weekend, so Auntie Toni got to spend some more fun time with baby Stacey Ayla! My sister Ellen should be living the life in Boston with Mike this week, so maybe she'll catch the travel bug too!

We went to watch a film called Whale Rider recently, which is set in Gisborne, where we live! It has just won lots of art house film awards, and we really enjoyed it, so it must be good!

The Kiwis are in low spirits sports-wise this week as the America's Cup was taken away from them and given to the Swiss. The highlight for me was the mast snapping in half on Friday. The Kiwi fraternity, by whom I am somehow greatly outnumbered, didn't laugh quite so loudly.