Kidney Stones, Rubbish, and More Rugby

Andy & Hazel have been staying with us this week, and were all set to fly off to Dunedin today.

However, yesterday poor Hazel managed to vomit her way around the Botanic Gardens and eventually ended up in hospital with a kidney stone. She now remains in hospital for a second night while Andy has flown off to watch the rugby in Dunedin (you’ve got to get your priorities right hey!)

So it’s been a funny old day today. We visited Hazel in her sick bed, wandered around the Wellington waterfront, meandering in and out of the rugby fans, we had a great game of netsocby (a cross between netball, soccer and rugby) in the park, and we ended up helping out at a Beach Clean Up in Island Bay.

Molly and I worked hard to fill a bin liner with rubbish, while Jake supervised from a wall. Meanwhile Alfie accumulated his own very large collection of rubbish in a pile at the edge of the beach. When we attempted to transfer his pile into our bin liner an almighty tantrum began because he wanted to keep all his treasured items of broken glass, bottle tops and paper. It took a lot of cajoling to persuade him otherwise, but the promise of staying up late for tonight’s game did the trick.

But our little boy was so tired that he passed out not long after 7pm. So it’s adults only watching the telly tonight. Happy Rugby World Cup everyone!