Daily Archives: 2019-05-03

SwimGym with Karola and Bangle – who only sat in the car and did not engage in the exertions of her owners.

Dean Sewell from Hurford-Parker Insurance Brokers in Hastings arrived as expected around 10:30pm for morning tea – although as usual he only had a glass of water. All seemed in good shape – if you ignore the several thousands we pay in premiums each year. We did up the homestead ‘functional replacement” insurance by about a third to match what current industry estimates are to build a house of the same physical area. Prefer to keep the homestead as is though, we really do hope we never collect. all this year’s acquisitions accounted for but we did, as Dean suggested, up the insured value for the two power poles and electricity wires that come across Karola’s orchard. They are devilishly expensive to replace.

Around lunch time I made a quick dash into Hastings for the weekend food, my GF bread and a nice plump Bostocks’ organic chicken for the weekend.

Rest of the day spent programming while Karola did some sorting out and tidying up of papers and magazines and books – a full time occupation round here. SHe also took Bangle round the orchard and generally put stuff away after the demise of our little ram hogget.

We plan to go to Wellington next weekend and celebrate Karola’s and Annemarie’s birthdays – the grandmothers of Bridget’s daughters, Natalie & Alex.

Ian & Karola expect to come down to Wellington on Friday 10th May, returing on Sunday 12th.

Bridget has booked Taste in Khandallah for 8 of us at 7:30pm on Saturday 11th.
– Karola & Ian & Annemarie More
– Chris, Bridget, Natalie, Alex More
– Karola will ask Jane Pearce, an old university friend, if she can join us and fill the 8th place.

We made quite an effort to find Jane’s number as we didn’t have it and trying to locate her through the Wellington Cathedral, the Wellington branch of the Parkinson’s Society, and the Wellington rest homes drew a blank. People move jobs so quickly these days that “institutional memory” is lost, everyone is “just starting to find out who’s who and what my job is”. Unsettling. Jane’s father served as secretary to the Anglican Diocese in Wellington for many years until he died in 1999, yet the cathedral staff had no memory of him.

Karola got precious old photos scanned earlier in the week – with frames carefully removed and replaced – so I’ve swapped the much better quality new images with the ones I attempted to take “frames on” last Friday.

Karola’s Mum & Dad in Wartime Scotland

Cynthia, Karola’s Mum, With Group Of F.A.N.Y Ambulance Drivers

Oak Avenue Weather:6℃—19℃ no rain [75.71] KBOrchard