Wairarapa

Week 3 of work - how long do you have to work before you forget how many weeks you have been there? It has been a proud Mum moment this week with Mike's company winning two awards at the 2011 annual AAGE awards - I think that stands for Australian Association of Graduate Employers. The celebrations are on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q6MXpfHmmo where you can see him and his mates dance the night away. The two awards were for Best Supplier to the Graduate Recruitment Industry and Award for Best Exhibitor. So, didn't they do well!!  We came first at bridge again - I doubt whether we can keep the winning streak up much longer and on Saturday we drove over to the airshow.  We arrived early so Harry would have time to see the exhibits.  There were none so he came along with me to a market which wasn't very good and then had lunch in the park watching school cricket (there was meant to be a Teddy Bears picnic on but we couldn't find it).  It was funny to be back in a country town as both the airshow and the A and P show had no signs enticing people to come to them.  Anyway about the airshow - here is a few of the 500 photos Harry took and what he had to say about it...
It was good to get back into the NZ aviation scene again, you most probably don't get to see this many WWI aircraft flying anywhere in the world. It was great to see some new aircraft to the NZ skies. Although only 2 of the aircraft are original the rest are full scale replicas that in some cases are built from the original blue prints.

While Harry watched aeroplanes I drove to a garden to have a look see only to find it was closed on Saturday and then to a wildlife park only to find it was closed all the time. So, I consoled myself with buying some herbs for my new herb garden and some veges for some pots and my new vege garden (capsicums, zucchinis, eggplants and chillis). I've decided to get into the real yummy veges rather than peas, beans and silverbeet. I was just getting to the stage of wondering what I would do next when David rang up and invited me around to their new home in Carterton (not new to him or Maggie but I hadn't seen them in 4 years). To end the day nicely Marty and Cheryl came down for dinner and we went to a local pub and caught up.  At the pub there was a clock that had stopped at exactly 4.35 on 4th September last year - due to the shock news that New Zealands'only Guinness draught production line was closed - it obviously hasn't opened anywhere else as the clock is still grieving!  We always said Guinness tastes better in Ireland.

On Sunday it was a glorious day and Harry went and did his thing as a crowd supervisor and the Christmas Parade (it suddenly occurred to us that we didn't see any of these in England - though the Christmas markets are really good) and I lay in the sun and read my book after I had planted all my veges.  In the evening we popped around to see Judy and Don. Back to work...