Isa fae Glesga.

Finn wears his hat that his Dad bought him in Canada, back to front and with pizzazz. Tonight he stole my hat and put it on back to front. Some how he managed to look like Isa from Still Game. For the lack of any Kiwiana, I am posting this picture.

It rained all night last night. I know that because I heard most of it and have been awake since 4am. Snow fell on the high ground and Finns trip was postponed until next week. The children were disappointed, but I think the teachers were relieved.

I spent most of the morning with Mike and Maggie, as I usually do on my first day off for a while. That is always a comfortable place to be, but even more so on a rainy day with the woodburner glowing. They are enjoying the precipitation. I had got used to the dry and have taken badly to the rain.

Finn had rugby training, so Meg and I were still able to keep our date of coffee at the Soul Food Cafe. (Fruit Smoothie for Meg). Then we went to make an appointment at the opticians to get her eyes checked to see how much they have improved over the last 2 months. They will only improve with excercise and I seem to remember setting her a challenge of a 30% improvement, or she could pay the $30 fee. She insists that she has been doing her excercises, so it will be very interesting to see the results on Monday. The optician assures me that she can fix her eyesight entirely by excercising and that her vision wont go back once she has fixed it.

grateful for;

Kiwi friends.

Megs offer to pay money towards the rent (no, of course I didn't accept!)

Finn's rowing coach telling me how much she wished he would come back in the spring as he and Josh Timu were the most promising. She said it was as much their ability to listen, carry out instructions and give her meaningful feedback on what happened when they were out on the water, as it was their co-ordination. It is good to have this recognition of the other side of Finn which is the opposite of the 'Kevin and Perry'.......'huh? wassat you said? Eh? But whyeeee? Ocht!!!!', that we get at home.