Hi from Ohoka

Hi Gemma and Hayden - cant believe that you've been back for a week -we are having a quiet Easter - getting the place tidied up before we head away in 4 weeks. The great news is that the house has finally been started - was all go here last Monday - Taggarts moved in to change the entrances in the yards - so this block has an entrance from Baileys Road into their yard and we just have the entrance into our yard - then they moved down to the house paddock to form the drive off the "avenue" towards the house site - and we just had time to get it marked with paint before they were ready to start, and the builder marked out the house site for the top to be scraped off-and the next 2 days was finishing the drive and dif=gging around the perimeter for the boxing for the foundations - and now it is sitting waiting for the builder to come back - hope it is next week!!!! Monday night your Mum and Dad come over briefly and we drove in the new drive and parked Paulie's car in the garage!!!!! Looks quite small to me at the mo' - Ernie says it is not, so can't be!!!! Will send you progress pics when there is somtehing to see.
We have been wquite boring this weekend - cutting off lots of growth in the trees etc and clearing out cupboards - some from when I moved in 3 years ago. Friday was a lovely day and I managed to get EJ out on the bike late in the afternoon - we took easter buns arounds to the Macdonalds - as everyone else in Ohoka is away - I wanted to bike with my rabbit ears on my helmet - but Mr B said I couldn't go back for them - wasn't too much traffic so wouldn't have shocked the natives. Anyway we wore the ears to Casey's last night when we went to watch the rugby and took easter eggs with us. Was an awful day yesterday rain and cold, but beautiful again today and I got another bike ride in around the big block - Ernie didn't come as he was still hacking away at the bushes up the drive. Tomorrow we are going to the Court theatre with Casey, Usshers and Cartwrights - looks as if we will go in the new bus, early in the afternoon (the show is at 6pm) park up and have lunch somewhere and/or an early tea.
Brianna and Melissa came on their weekly visit on Wednesday -(it was their last swimming lesson for this term) -you can quite clearly see her 2 bottom teeth now - and her balance is getting better - spent most of the time here walking around clutching my 2 index fingers - is hard on the old Nana's back I can tell you.
Take care - and enjoy the rest of Easter - Mummy G and Ernie xxxxxx