Number Seven

At 10am I was teaching PE and so didn't get a chance to stop for a photo (20+ 9 year olds without the boundaries of a classroom meant a fair bit of behaviour management). But this is outside where I was teaching, cute little kiwi school that it is they have native flora and NZ themed decorations.

LYS

This place has great capacity to bring cheer to my day. I thought you might like to see it. The picture's a bit dark unfortunately as it was quite late in the day, and it started snowing while I was taking the photo.

As I mentioned, I wasn't too happy with my swatch in the merino-silk, so I bought this instead.

I think the colour is more Mum. Again, not a great photo because taken at night, but it's a pretty muted blue-grey. Best thing is that it was only SEK 20 a skein (NZD $4.00)!

And it's Monday again

Tim brought these back from his mini trip. I eat them at all times of day.

I actually missed 10 am today. I had a terrible night's sleep punctuated by dreams (nightmares) about my former job. I think it's because I finally received my reference from my boss. The reference is fine, but it makes me feel flat - 2 and a half years rolled into three short paragraphs...

Knit-a-long

One big ball of wool ready to be knitted into a Saroyan!

Number Six

I had a really frustrating morning (see email rant) which was salvaged by coffee with a friend at Chapter in Mt. Eden. She told me that wherever we are at any given moment is exactly where we are meant to be and that I should stop berating myself and not worry. This turned out to be good advice. I was so cross with myself about work that I decided I would go and deliver my cv to as many local schools as possible before 3 and find some more teaching work dammit!

I click-clacked into a school office in Westmere and was promptly offered a day next week. I had walked in just as the school was trying to arrange enough cover for 7 teachers to have a training day on the new national standards. Excellent.

The food we eat

I was uninspired to photograph anything but another breakfast. Constructed mainly from last night's left-overs: polenta and a tomato-based sauce, to which I added a poached egg this morning. Delicious, but eggs two days in a row - what would the anti-cholesterol crowd have to say about that?

Number Five

My titles just get more and more creative. This is what we came out to this morning, and it explains all the caterwauling at 3am. I think its little hairy toes are quite sweet in a squirmy sort of way. Sorry about the lack of creativity, I'm tired. I'll try and be more interesting tomorrow!

Saw Mel today , got a new toy! A swift so that winding up my wool will be quicker and easier...and I may have also bought a really nice skein of koigu to practice with. Mel says hi!