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Meanwhile, I've planned a few projects for Christmas. I've repaired the electrics on the Youth Group's trailer (the one they use to transport the ever-present doughnut machine), I've bought some tough cloth to repair one of our chairs, some boards to put up in the loft for storage space, and some cement. We're considering taking on a lodger to pay the bills, but first we need to clear the room (hence the storage space in the loft), sell the old junior bed and redecorate the room. The cement is to fill a number of holes in the concrete outside. Plus I'm planning to do some research to find funding for the youth worker that the church is supporting in the local school, and probably for the brass band too, since it's going to cost us a lot of money to shift the new building even if the building itself is free. Plus one of my plum cuttings has finally sprouted, and I need to collect seeds from the trees for next year's planting.
So I won't be idle. But at least the rest of Auckland will be on holiday, so I'll be relatively undisturbed.
Provided there aren't too many incidents with the towels. And the slime.
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( 3.1 / 2081 )No more parades, one carol concert, two sessions playing carols outside the supermarket. Nearly there. Bronwyn made herself sort out all the parcels and cards, and spent quite a bit at the post office. I'm going to need to work more overtime!
Rachael read her poem in the Christmas production today, and everything went smoothly, apart from when Mary and Joseph reached the Inn before the innkeeper had had a chance to get on stage. I had a helper keeping track of all the songs, DVDs, powerpoints and YouTube clips for me.
I'm looking forward to a quiet couple of weeks to catch up on everything. Won't last long. The brass band start up on the 4th of January!
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( 3 / 2220 )Another parade this morning. Carol service tomorrow night. And another parade on Monday night. Then I've got a few nights off, and it's the final parade on Friday. The long one. It's over a kilometer, and we usually lose count of how many times we play the music. And lose a few music cards, shoes, bodies and trombone slides on the way. It's fun. But tiring!
I'm planning to do the coffee bar on the night shift again at Parachute, but this time I'll probably be going hard core and bringing a tent. I've found a silver one with a flysheet on TradeMe, which should hopefully be cooler for daytime sleeping. (I worked out though that it's better to split sleeping morning and evening to avoid too much jetlag). It'll be fun, provided I can find a quiet spot...
Christmas parcels are wrapped, but no addresses or stamps. Christmas letter is written, but not enough envelopes. We'll get there eventually, but your Christmas letters and presents will certainly be in good time for next year.
Another afternoon tea party at the old Kerr-Taylor family home in Auckland tomorrow. The Historic Places Trust are quite generous in opening it up to us for free. It's a huge old wooden house - they had ten children. Rachael loves exploring. Bronwyn offered to bring chocolate fudge brownies. Mmmm...
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( 3 / 2218 )A rather full-on week.
The Henderson Santa parade and the Auckland parade went well, as did the church on Sunday, but I'm rather exhausted. At times I wasn't sure if I was still standing up. We were a bit rough on our first play through of the march on Saturday, but warmed up after a while. For Sunday, the church had been decorated as a throne room, and we all had to remove our shoes. We played a rather good fanfare on cornet and trombone, and then ... nothing happened. Apparently the computer was a bit slow in showing the video that followed.
It's going to be just as busy next weekend. I'll make a note to get more sleep in advance.
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( 3 / 2202 )Missed the brass band rehearsal to got to the youth trust committee meeting. Next Tuesday I'm missing the church meeting to go to the brass band committee. Sounds fair. This Tuesday I'll be off at a training session for the trust. Wednesday is our church home group, Monday is the brass band.
Today I trained another person to run the projector. Next week I'll be on trombone, followed by more trombone at the central auckland Santa parade. The week after, I've got a third person to train, and then the week after it's the childrens' production.
Rachael had a bit of a meltdown this morning. She had been given the chance to read her own poem in the production. This was fine until another girl practiced her song, at which point Rachael wanted to sing instead, and got all upset when nobody let her. She seems OK about it now, but I'd better encourage her to write that poem.
Saturday morning was our first Santa parade, but fortunately we were just providing background music, sitting nearby. Just as well, because the parade got stuck by doubling back on itself, and took a while to move.
Bronwyn's had a quiet and relaxing weekend, and seems to be a lot better for it. Unfortunately I picked this weekend to have a nasty bout of stomach bug that left me rather tired. Managed it somehow. I had to take the girls with me both days, which meant quite an early start. I think they're a little tired, but as usual not admitting it!
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