School holidays and new life

I spent five days of the school holidays in P Nth last week - and an interesting week it was. The main reason for the visit was to go to the lawyer down there to sign stuff as jonathan had previously done the signing and they needed tos ee that I was a legitimate live person to be buying a house ( something to do with antimoney laundering and foreign buyer rules) but also wanted another opportunity to look at the house again and check out how stuff worked like heaters etc - also to inspect the fridge ( which I am going tobuy). other bits and peices i might buy can wait until I get down there and main furniture is moved in.  I did have abit of fun looking at stuff at big Save furniture though - could have got a really good bargain for a cream lazy boy, but i will wait and see whether that is appropriate once I get sorted out.   All good.

Spent a day with the family at the farm - ewes needed crutching before lambing and when we rounded up the sheep we found we already had twins and several other ewes were very close to lambing. Jonathan's job once we rounded up the sheep and got them into his new pens was to lift them into "the position" for Amy to operate the clippers which she did very well. Jonathan was a bit stuffed by the time he tried to manage the pregnant ewes and the rams - they were very big! But it was a real team effort and the kids are getting really helpful at such times. They also enjoy playing in the bush playground and have apparently made a "boys base" and a "girls base" amongst the manuka.  We are looking forard to seeing the new "kids" as at least two of the goats also are heavily pregnant. Amy was quite beside herself with new babies.

This is the biggest ram Taggy who will be renamed Shaggy as he appears to have sired lambs successfully

These ones were easy to lift

Cordelia very proud because she caught a lamb for Daddy

weather was a bit nippy although it wasnt too bad - it didnt get to the minuses.  Jonathan kept the kids home on the days when the weather was predicted to be the worst - good move. I bought some new slippers (warm ones) and had a pretty quiet week. reading and generally not doing too much. Drove home on Friday - it is a long drive - easier I think in a car than the campervan although I value being able to stop and have a nap if I need one and onboard tea making and toilet are a bonus.

Saturday we had the Have a Go day for the public at Nathan homestead and although numbers only just reached double digits Elaine had suitable materials and projects ready which worked well - I think we managed to convince a couple of the visitors that patchwork could be easy and fun.
The exhibition comes down in just over a week. Broken all their records for visitor numbers so it was good that they got the extra weeks after lockdown for display. I can be justifiably proud of the show we put on. 

This lady had never sewn using a machine before so she was rapt to make her mug rug

And this lady stayed all day and basically completed a table topper

Sunday - I am on computer trying to sort out all the little tasks I need to do re change of addresses, finding where to take unneeded electronic goods like printers and keyboards...
I need to go to aquarobics and get my exercise going - that should make me get my positive energy going again - i am still feeling very flat and that is not what is needed for a new adventure...