Vampire Girls

I posted a picture of my remaining tomato crop, brought in from the frost, to counteract the apparent effects of the girls having watched Twilight too many times. Spook wasn't feeling very well today, which is why both the cat and the girls were able to take advantage of him. We are not sure if he has Swine Flu, but if he does, we know what to do. We heard on the radio today that there has been a government suggestion, that should you suspect you have it, you should drive to your doctors surgery and peep on your horn 3 times to get attention. The radio presenter lives in Auckland and said that when she drove through the tunnel in the city where, traditionally, every one peeps their horn, she got tailed by a doctor.

I read over yesterday's blog and realised that I hadn't explained on the blog before THAT, that Stacey, who is a nurse, farmers wife and cat owner, declared our kitten to be pregnant. Spook was concerned that the grandparents might think they were about to become GREAT grandparents. The kitten never stops eating and drinking and we thought she had developed a bit of a belly. She has, but it is not too many cat crunchies. The children are very excited. Spook is not.

I think I may have to make up suggestion cards for Spooks first of the 4 days off. That transition from work to play does not flow very well. He spent the first 2.5hrs at work. He lay awake last night solving problems and went in to discuss them. The plant made front page news in The Sun yesterday. (Wanaka's free community newspaper). It said that it stinks. His nearest neighbour to the plant owns the paper and would appear to have his own agenda.

Finn got hugged a few times today and only by one girl. A boy with a similarly golden tint to his hair was promised $20 from his mother if he got hugged a hundred times. Finn told me this and also, with a hopeful hint, that he had been hugged 6,ooo times.

We have been invited to dinner over at John's house tomorrow.