Wooohooo!!!!

I've been slightly obsessively (only twice a day) checking my bank account for the last week and my patience (and obsession) has been rewarded! Late this afternoon I had my Rugby World Cup ticket payment deducted! So, I'm going!

I now await official confirmation which should arrive late July. I really do love living in an electronic world.

Diary of a very part-time homemaker

It's been a flat out week but I did get time to make some guava jelly. Yes, more fruit.

Thank goodness for a recipe book for microwave jams and jellys. Also means the whole process can be done after work rather than taking a whole day.

This is the fruit draining in the pantry. It is hung from the old washing stick that I've inherited from my grandmother. It may never see hot water again but it's great for jelly hanging. That's also her jelly bag.

And this is the finished product.

Btw, it's not medium jelly - it's in a medium salsa jar, very handy size and my regular substitute for spaghetti sauce.

Just a serious thumping...

rather than a total walkover. 66/28 scoreline plus gas jets, great music, the rain and wind stopped and the crowd was happy.

All round good night really.

2 games, 3 colours

The town has slowly been turning black and green for the All Blacks game against Ireland tomorrow night. After that we will be turning white as we cheer on the All Whites who are playing if the Football World Cup for the first time in yonks. We also have a sweep at work and we have all drawn another team to support so Go Algeria!

What do you do with a long weekend?

Laundry, cleaning, ironing, tidying, gardening and then...

relax

Domestic arrangements

I went to Rotorua yesterday to catch up with some of the whanau and we went to Whakarewarewa, the Thermal Village. We did the tourist tour and because it's a real village (people live there) we got a look at...

baths with a view

tonight's dinner straight out of the oven (seriously straight over a vent and it smelled great)

and we also had a mineral facial

and this is us

Going all arty

I spent yesterday on a bus tour run for the Wars exhibition visiting historical sites around south Taranaki. Really interesting but as photo ops go it was just lots of standing around in cow paddocks looking at ditches, you kind of had to be there.

On the way home though we stopped at Patea and did a walk along the river from where the freezing works used to be to the river mouth. Much better photo ops.