2002 -> September -> Week Beginning 8/9
A distinctly poorer day weather wise, with a distinctly evil-looking sunset.
Absolutely stunning day today,
if
somewhat chilly. I've gone for a bike ride, while Kate has gone to the Home show
with Claudia and her folks. This Cabbage Tree is in our back yard, one of
a pair grown from from cuttings from Kathy's folks orchard.
They are getting really tall now. Soon they will be filling our guttering with
palm fronds.
OK, we're off on the bike ride...
Down to the harbour where, looking like an idiot, I photograph myself with
cityscape in background. (
I
also took a panorama here, which looked quite impressive, but I've carelessly
deleted it because I'm not proficient enough with the camera yet).
On to the video library and book library to do returns, then decide to cycle to my parents place in Takapuna, about 10 km away. This is a silly decision, I haven't ridden that far in months! Winter is slob season for me.
To get there I go via Torpedo Bay 
and then on to Narrow Neck beach.
In a few months these beaches will be packed with people again. For now,
there are a few groups of sun-baskers. This is not really typical September
weather.
On through Takapuna Grammar School, and past Takapuna beach. By this stage I am too stuffed to get the camera out.
And as I get to my parents, Dad is getting ready to leave for the first bowling game of the season. I bore them with digital camera technology.
Black
Friday dawns cold. The oak tree has leaves, and I swear it didn't
this time last week.
Ten past eight on the clock already, we're late!
Last night was really cold, it had hailed hard in Wellington, enough to close the Airport. No hail here, just windy enough to blow open all the fireplace flues at 3:30 this morning.
But the place is looking damp this morning.
At this point of the walk to school, Kate is usually anxious to find friend Victoria.
And sure enough, Victoria arrives. Just another two weeks until school holidays. Up the hill, where the sun is shining, is Devonport School.