A local nursery had a special offer for November - $1.50 per tree. So I've got another 30. Planted 10 so far. These are going into a larger block which was set aside when Bronwyn's dad sold land to her sister Claire. It's a sort of Brownie Point system - normally you can't subdivide land, unless you can also covenant a block to be returned to native bush. Since it's in the covenant that he plants native trees on it, I was planning to ask him for money to buy them. However, he's off in Australia for ten days, so I'll have to wait until he gets back.

Finished the rest of Rachael's bunk bed. We've spent more on paint than on buying the frame, and we had to get a mattress as well. We'll need a second mattress now, but for this weekend, we've used the one off the spare bed. To celebrate, Rachael's had her friend Stephanie round to stay.

Had a rather damp fireworks party, but Claire's house has a big deck with a roof so there was plenty of room to watch them getting soaked as they lit the bonfire. We let off most of the fireworks near the house.

There seems to have been more coverage of the US elections here than the New Zealand ones. It was almost an anti climax when we went down to the school to vote yesterday. It seems everyone just assumed that National would get in, and that was the end of the debate. So now John Key is Prime Minister. He used to be our next door neighbour. Or at least he owned a house next door to us - he normally lives in the city. He just had the house in order to be able to stand in our electorate. But we've met him on a number of occasions, and he likes to show his face around, so it'll be like having a local boy running the country. Whether Key or Obama will influence us most remains to be seen.

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