Meg, Finn and I drove Spook to meet Marion and then we shopped for school shoes. Spook didn't get to do the scary downhill stuff as there was logging there today, but they managed to cover a fair distance - having won the very prestige NZ Coast to Coast race a few years ago, 2 babies have only slowed Marion down a little - and not for long!
Under threat of having to go for a walk, all 5 children managed to occupy themselves all afternoon. Robbi bought me a sketchbook so I drew Spook sleeping in the hammock, before Shannon and I cycled along the road for a bag of lemons at a wee stall. It was so beautiful that I managed to motivate myself to go back out for a 5km run around the block. The sun had just gone down and this time, as I looked across flat land to where the sun had gone, I saw The Carse of Dundee in late October. Sometimes it is Kent or Norfolk. The weather was sunny and warm today. Tomorrow there will be nothing to save the children from a walk along the coast. Marion and Glen cant make it, but Robbi and Roddy's friend Evan, and his lovely 15yr old daugher Brooke have finally arrived from Oz, so our numbers will still be up.
After a week of gluten free, I surely must be the better for it, so now I'm on a gluten-less (as in not as much as I used to) diet, which is far more tasty. Spook did hear on the radio of a lemon-detox diet under the influence of which he's hopeful I could undergo a major personality change over the recommended 7 days. I'm quite sure I would suffer a change of personality, but I don't think I would be the only one to suffer! I might consider it for journalistic purposes in the future. Meanwhile, there are quite a few cakes waiting in Robbi's cupboards that I have yet to taste.....
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