Not a photo of the mountain

Although it is still looking spectacular with a good covering of snow.  No, this is a photo of a sculpture that sits in the entrance way of the Council offices.  It represents the mountain (obviously)  and as I walked past it the other day I noticed that someone has placed a lovely hanky or maybe a small napkin on it's peak, a nod no doubt to it's current state in real life rather than a resting place for lost property.

One small step closer

I think I'm probably one small step closer to thinking like a local.  Why?  The weather today has been awful - cold, very wet and a south-westerly wind that has whipped round the mountain, still covered in snow and come in off the sea.  Not that unusual for spring in Taranaki.  And I did not hesitate for even a second in my footwear selection for a trip to the supermarket.

No Sleep, too much food

This weekend was the annual weekend away for my māori class.  As in previous years there was little sleep, fabulous and copious food, lots and lots of laughter.  There were also lots of activities, official and unofficial, this is what you do while you are waiting for dinner - dance!

Happy Halloween

The museum was jumping this evening with a whole swarm of ghouls, witches and quite a few spider men.

There were pumpkins, cobwebs and spiders as well as a few 'body parts' and icky slimy things.  Somehow I don't think Mr Wilkinson would ever have dreamt that his storehouse would prove the perfect display are for a harvest of glowing Jack-o-lanterns, looks good though don't you think?

Men at work

It's been a big week.  We have run a whole library from 5 sets of shelves set up in the foyer of the museum for 5 days. While we were doing that there was heaps of stuff going on elsewhere such as the electrician rewiring our relocated desk.

Two of the vast crew of workmen building on our new front steps.

And finally, two of our exhibitions team on the end of paint brushes in the children's library.

Almost done

A few weeks back I showed you the construction site outside work.

  Well,  there has been progress, this is now the view from my window

 and this is the beginnings of the new ramp - supervision team in the background,

 and that nice looking soil is soon to be lawn

Getting creative

Instead of our staff quiz night this year we had a night (well 2 hours) in the museum.  To test our knowledge each team had to do one of the scavenger hunts that have been devised using our personalised labels and to make it more interesting, there were some extra challenges thrown in.  The team I was in came last, no-one is really sure how the scoring worked, but I am quite proud of my modeling skills.

In the company of Ferdie the Bull, our rugby mascot and the Megaladon shark is my Buzzy Bee, circled just to be sure.