Anidder week, anidder peerie update.
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On Sunday I went out for a little hurl and took a few pictures to make up for the lack of visual delights recently that you, the dedicated NotShetland readers, have been pining for.
I didn’t go far as we were expecting Aidan, Nan and Grampa to return at some point.
Sunday afternoon brought the return of the child, eager to get back to school after his boring time up in Russell. Actually that last sentence had no truth whatsoever apart from the return of the child…and it was Sunday. He wasn’t exactly eager to get back to school and he didn’t have a biring time in Russell. He had thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it by the sounds of things.
Monday was pretty uneventful. Got up, went to work, went home. This was the beginning of week 4 at the new place of employment. I am on a 4 week probationary period so this week could mean a lot.
The moment we have all been waiting for!
Tuesday evening brought with it the eggscrutiating eggsitement of the Grand Pickled Egg opening ceremony. Aidan and I were quite tentative as to whether our concoction would be edible.
It has been a long 5 weeks or so waiting for the eggs to become ready for consumption. Unfortunately I have no pictures of the eating ceremony for you as they were just too damn delicious to stop and pick up the camera!
I think I can safely say that we were both delighted with the results and it is definitely something we will be trying again once we have eaten our way through these two jars.
Tuesday also brought a nice little surprise for Aidan. His whole class from Dunrossness Primary School had each taken the time to write him letters. He is going to have a lot of writing ahead of him to reply to them all.
Boom boom shake da room
Wednesday was also fairly uneventful – Apart from the 5.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the Bay of Plenty. We slept through it. As did most of the Bay of Plenty by the looks of things. It occurred at 2.55am and GNS Science reckoned that it could be felt across the central North Island. Or maybe not. It was centred 10km South West of Matata at a depth of 150km.
Shagged by a rare parrot
On Thursday I stumbled across a clip of Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine in New Zealand searching for the Kakapo Parrot. Quite amusing!
Who turned out the lights?
On Friday I opened my eyes and for a short while thought I had not been eating enough carrots. My eyesight was failing me, until we realised that we had no power. Darkness. Was this a tsunami or an eruption or the “Big One” they keep mentioning? Nope. Turned out that the telegraph pole at the end of our road (that has been leaning at an odd angle for some time) finally toppled. Thankfully the hot water tank had enough heat for my shower.
This was also the end of week 4 at work. They haven’t sacked me yet so I shall presume that I passed the induction period.
On Saturday Tania and me were both working extra. Aidan and Caleb went to the swimming pool and then Caleb stayed the night at ours.
Sunday has been pretty uneventful as well – Lets see what next week brings.
Good night!
1 comments:
Tania you are so cute!!!!
Love that the eggs were good - not that you'd ever get me to try a pickled egg, not in this lifetime at least :p
How sweet of everyone back in Shetland to have written to Aidan, he must have been over the moon! :)
Well done on surviving the trial period at work :)
I saw that Stephen Fry thing on TV, hilarious!
2 more months to go till xmas and we descend upon you, hope you're ready ;)
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