Still Here

Sunday 18th

Around the Bays

Sally and Ian completed Around the Bays with a brisk walk in one and a half hours.

Strange route for a London bus

Sally's Company's Hospitality Tent

On the bouncy castle

Monday 19th

Very wet. Sounded as if a tap was left on as water run down the gulleys.

1. House work
2. Painting
3. Emily from Kindy
4. Emily to class, then to Pak n’ Save, then coffee
5. Pick up Zoe from Oscars
6. Ian and Sally cleared upstairs bathroom, toilet and Emily’s room. Zoe to sleep on Emily’s bed which was moved to parent’s room. Emily to sleep in Zoe’s room; ready for builders tomorrow.
7. Saw second part of ‘Dark Knight’

Emily's room cleared

Toilet and bathroom cleared

Emily in Zoe's bed

Tuesday 20th

A little rain. Temperature down to 20

1. Mum’s travel insurance purchased
2. Shopping in St Heliers. Great library system. Free order of books made less than a week ago. Email received to say they are ready. Found on ‘Orders Shelf’ labelled and in alphabetical order by surname.
3. Builders arrived.
4. Emily collected
5. Emily to special class
6. Zoe and Emily to dance classes
7. Collect snapper, chips and sausages

Toilet gutted

Bathroom gutted

The builders

Wednesday 21st

1. Spoke to Jenny on the phone
2. Collected Emily. Started to rain
3. Emily to class
4. Raining so took Emily to Lollipops in Ellerslie
5. Benny kept getting stuck in the roof
6. Rain really came down till into the night
7. No lights in kitchen and lounge. Cosy table lamps
8. Sally and Ian went to a school dinner
9. We baby sat

Skip removal

Opening created to make a
cupboard in Emily's room

Looking into new bathroom area
through opening

Window beading removed

Thursday 22nd

1. Spoke to Joni and Fiona on Skype
2. Did some work on my painting
3. Sally collected mum to go with her to an appointment for Emily
4. Four to Mission Bay for lunch
5. Sally did the Gymbaroo thing and went to work
6. Emily and grandparents had ice cream at Kohi
7. Went to Madill’s Farm play park. Emily found a friend from Kindy to play with. The pair looked sweet holding hands and running around the park together
8. The builders left when we arrived. Same lack of lighting as last night. I watched Benny get himself down from the roof space
9. Irene and I walked round to spend the evening at the home of a couple who I met while they were displaying their scale model of Noah’s Ark.

Painting on the terrace

Back of new cupboard and
plumbing for shower unit

New cupboard space

Benny stuck in the roof

He eventually gets down

Friday 23rd

1. Got up earlier so that Ian could take Zoe to join other children on a walk to school. Then we took Emily up to Kindy
2. We went to collect coffee at the local shop. The coffee shop was full of mothers waiting to get their coffee before going home after dropping the children at school
3. Irene and I then went to see the local doctor to get our medicines stocked up for the rest of the trip
4. Collected Emily at 12.30
5. Emily did some school work after dinner and I played with the Tomy trains with her
6. Collected Zoe from Oscars after school club

Electrics and piping fitted

Building work after first 4 days

Saturday 24th
I went on my own to Sylvia Park Mall to sort out my watch. The member of staff at Warehouse happily exchanged my broken one for a new one.


I was then accosted by young Israeli lady who offered me face cream and proceeded to polish one of my nails using very fine diamond paper. She failed to sell me a $100 nail kit.


In the meantime Irene and Sally had gone down to St Heliers for a facial and manicure.


After lunch I went off with Ian, Sally and Zoe to Mitre 10 for cupboard fitting and then to the pet shop for an aquarium bulb and snails. Irene stayed with Emily to do some baking.


The weather started well and we had planned to walk with Zoe on the Spit but it has deteriorated with rain and strong winds.