It's A City Life

The last few weeks have been interesting. Most of our blog readers know that Molly has been waiting - very patiently - for some new hair for the last couple of months, after hers all fell out in April.

She's managed ok so far. She's mastered the no-hair look brilliantly and for colder days she is gathering quite an impressive collection of head scarves and hats. Some look sillier than others.

Unfortunately we received some sad, bad news a couple of weeks ago - after months of hard manual work making Molly a custom-fitted wig, it had been stolen by some scumbags in Chinese Customs just before it left to come to NZ (along with 8 others. Why????)

Anyway, thanks to our very very lovely hair consultant we've managed to borrow a loan wig while they start from scratch making Molly another one. The loan one is not custom made to fit Molly and it's made with artificial hair.....but check out how good it looks!!!

Molly's choosing to wear it 50% of the time, but the rest of the time she sticks to a hat or nothing. She likes being able to change things around.

Other news....At the end of July we celebrated our Wedding Anniversary with a takeaway. Such excitement.

Well actually it wasn't our real wedding anniversary. The real one is in February, but for one reason or
another we chose to get married right in the middle of the busiest couple of weeks of our lives, and it's the same every year. It falls within the first week or two of school term, in the middle of both kids' birthdays, the peak of summer, etc etc. So far we've found every year that we're too busy to celebrate it.

We can't see this changing, so we've decided instead to celebrate 29th July instead, the date we originally got together!

Meanwhile work's going well for each of us. Jake's starting to get addicted to checking his sales figures now, it's very reminiscent of our days at BTW. And I've got some nice clients who are keeping me busy. An older relative remarked the other day on how interesting it is to see that my desk is pretty much paperless. True. In fact, my desk most definitely resembles the modern world these days, usually with two screens and an iPhone on the go at the same time.

Having said that, for someone who supposedly works from home, my job has been taking me into the city a lot lately. I've had networking events, courses and meetings to attend which have kept me away from my desk and walking around our beautiful capital. Sometimes I think seriously, just how photogenic can a city be??

We've changed things around a bit in our garden recently. We've had our big Pohutakawa tree thinned out a bit to allow more light into the garden and into the house. We've pulled out some horrors (like giant daisies and privet), leaving the natives to flourish and we've bought some new pots.

We've also cut down a dead Pittosporum tree that was blocking the light to our lounge room and used the wood to create a new play area for the kids. It's kept them occupied for hours. Who would have thought you could have so much fun with pieces of wood!