Business as usual

Well you may have noticed I haven't exactly been a prolific blogger of late. I even went to a Wellington bloggers' catchup evening last week and felt like such a fraud! Great to meet some of the folks whose blogs/online journals I've been lurking around for a while - smart people. Not as much variety in our days, I guess - easy when the countries, foods and experiences are changing by the day to think of many bloggable tidbits! But things are going well following reentry.

We have a new Espresso Rescue site for weekday mornings (opposite the fire station in Marsden Street, just by the bridge into Lower Hutt) thanks to the Assembly of God and their nice big car park. It is going well and we have many regulars already, after only 5 days. Our (well, soon-to-be-ours) ambulance is being fixed up ready for a WOF in Rotorua - a 1984 Bedford, which will be most excellent for our vehicle 2.0. Finally a home for our lovely Wega. Then we can be two places at once with ease. At the moment we have several contemporaneous (don't you just LOVE that word?!) events on the weekend, which can be a bit of a challenge and requires much lugging of heavy things. This way we'll have two vehicles from which we can operate inside, no matter what the weather - essential in Wellington.

Conrad and I are taking turns doing morning coffee. Now I have worked out I can bring my laptop and woosh modem for the quiet times it is fantastic - great reception here!

The kids are very happily settled in their new learning environments, and enjoying their old haunts and friends again.


And we have chickens! Four extremely cute and industrious bantams, bought on Trade Me - contact me if you want some - Louise has hundreds. Literally. So Felicity, Snowy, Bernard and Malc (will post pics soon - lost camera in Korea) are happily pecking their way around the perimeter of the garden - great weeders, and there isn't much they can hurt within their reach. They are so cute, putting themselves "to bed" at night up in the grape vines at the top of the glass house. They will start laying in a couple of months, fingers crossed.

Well, stay tuned for the progress of our poor but happy (but with great potential) year, as we build our Espresso Rescue empire to sustain us OUT OF THE OFFICE.

: ) x