Back online

We have had a computer meltdown and Internet problems, so we now have a backlog of news.

A couple of weeks ago Federation Square hosted a New Zealand festival which included an actual waka with genuine Maori warrior types rowing down the Yarra. They posed for the assembled (mostly Kiwi) masses with Wilma's office, the round Concert Hall in the background. We had planned to see the All Blacks v. Wallabies game at the end of the day on the big screen there but Jessye was pretty sick so no go. That meant we also couldn't participate in the largest haka outside NZ which was to take place just before the game.

The next day Rosie and Sophie got the same bug and we got our entertaining after hours doctor over to check them out.

The girls perked up just in time for going to see the Paco Pena flaminco dance troupe and then the grade 5/6 school concert during which Rosie played her violin in a mostly perussion ensemble, twirled hula hoops in her class's item and sang in the grand finale. For some reason her hair was made to almost match her orange T-shirt.

With all 3 on school holiday there's been some time to loiter down town and play on a favourite work of art which decorates the lawn outside the Concert Hall.