Wednesday midweek, down hill to the Weekend
Wednesday, mid-week, downhill to the weekend, I now live for my weekends.
Since our last tenant left the downstairs flat we have been battling to find permanent tenants. We finally found a sweet little South African girl who is very keen on the place but can only move in on the 1st October, she has some kind of lease restraint where she is living now. Anyway we have agreed to let her have the place but need to fill it until then. Well, thanks to a good friend of ours, who used to run a B&B, we have let it to a new immigrant family of three from South Africa. They arrived last night and have settled in nicely. Hopefully they will stay until the end of September by which time they will have found something more permanent.
‘Twas a big day for Evan yesterday, he had his braces removed after two years of being a “metal mouth”, and so handsome he is too.Click here to see the new smile. http://www.flickr.com/photos/irene_wood/34454416/
Had an extra dose of culture last Sunday when Evan and I went to a free symphony concert at the Auckland town hall. (Irene stayed at home and prepared the flat for our guests). The Auckland Symphony Orchestra performed music with a Scandinavian flavour. The music was very enjoyable with lots of light and classical numbers from Scandinavian composers. The highlight of the afternoon was a performance of one Griegs piano concertos, the soloist being a young 13 year old Korean lad who played this very difficult movement from memory with no sheet music at all. His performance was incredible and needless to say was rewarded by a standing ovation.
Sunday was also the 60th anniversary of VJ day (the day marking the end of WW2 and the allied victory against Japan, and to commemorate this there was a big parade up Queen Street involving the veterans and present armed forces of NZ. The parade was addressed by the mayor of Auckland, the prime minister and the governor general. The weather was sunny and all in all a pleasant day.
Anyway, it’s back to to work for me, lunch time is over. Roll on Friday, until next time, be well.
Since our last tenant left the downstairs flat we have been battling to find permanent tenants. We finally found a sweet little South African girl who is very keen on the place but can only move in on the 1st October, she has some kind of lease restraint where she is living now. Anyway we have agreed to let her have the place but need to fill it until then. Well, thanks to a good friend of ours, who used to run a B&B, we have let it to a new immigrant family of three from South Africa. They arrived last night and have settled in nicely. Hopefully they will stay until the end of September by which time they will have found something more permanent.
‘Twas a big day for Evan yesterday, he had his braces removed after two years of being a “metal mouth”, and so handsome he is too.Click here to see the new smile. http://www.flickr.com/photos/irene_wood/34454416/
Had an extra dose of culture last Sunday when Evan and I went to a free symphony concert at the Auckland town hall. (Irene stayed at home and prepared the flat for our guests). The Auckland Symphony Orchestra performed music with a Scandinavian flavour. The music was very enjoyable with lots of light and classical numbers from Scandinavian composers. The highlight of the afternoon was a performance of one Griegs piano concertos, the soloist being a young 13 year old Korean lad who played this very difficult movement from memory with no sheet music at all. His performance was incredible and needless to say was rewarded by a standing ovation.
Sunday was also the 60th anniversary of VJ day (the day marking the end of WW2 and the allied victory against Japan, and to commemorate this there was a big parade up Queen Street involving the veterans and present armed forces of NZ. The parade was addressed by the mayor of Auckland, the prime minister and the governor general. The weather was sunny and all in all a pleasant day.
Anyway, it’s back to to work for me, lunch time is over. Roll on Friday, until next time, be well.
posted by Alf | 11:40 am
1 Comments:
A nice little read. Keep 'em coming!
Irene
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