It’s an official excuse for not blogging for a few days – I’ve been struck down with a lurgy. I think it’s just a bad cold but as you get older you get less resilient to even the common cold. Having been as grumpy as a girl can be I became officially ill on Monday and have been off work ever since.
Weekend was productive, if not that much fun.
We went furniture shopping to Masterton (on other side of hill about 1.5 hours drive) and found exactly what we wanted without much fuss. Beats trogging up and down Thorndon Quay, the lifestyle quarter of Wellington. Looks like we can afford two set of sofas for the price of one we looked at in Wellington. The best thing is that they do curtains and stuff too so we’re getting a price for them to get them made up and fitted too. Since we don’t have close neighbours these are less of a priority but nevertheless I am sure that even the sheep want some privacy from us parading around the bathroom!
Sunday was birthday treat for Naomi. We’re so over buying useless presents for each other I treated us both to seeing the NZ ballet instead. It was a smashing performance of Cinderella – a real crowd pleaser! I was finding it hard to breathe by this point and even turned down ice cream in the interval (that’s how rotten I felt). The last time I saw ballet it was £5 tickets during Paul Hamlyn Week at the Royal Opera House – Giselle I think. We had stall tickets about 4 rows back so it was real close up. At the St James Theatre New Zealand we were up in the god seats that gave you vertigo to look down (or maybe that was the cold kicking in). Still, good night was had by all.
Am sure I’ll be back on the mend and may break myself gently tomorrow by working from home. Let’s see if I can improve blogging performance again!