Feb 13th: Today started with a cool wind but soon turned into a sunny day of about 20 degrees. Very pleasant. After finishing off a few things for the end of our school term, Peter and Jonathan went to our neighbours for a couple of hours. Edward and I were covering an hour in the raffle booth in the main street – see photo (looks a bit like Punch and Judy, I think!) Every Friday a local organisation sells raffle tickets and the profits go to their club. All the locals come along with their $2 while they are shopping, after dropping children off at kindy, or in their break from work, and buy a page of tickets. They are all trained to write their own name and number on the ticket page and it is just part of Friday-Waimate life. It makes oodles of money for the clubs, no matter what you are offering as prizes! Today was gym club's day.
At lunchtime the local Lions club was having a sausage sizzle to raise money for the cancer ward in the Children’s Hospital, which is in Auckland, so we had our lunch there. In the afternoon there was cooking to do and seeds to plant in the veggie patch and packing to do. Tomorrow is Steve’s 40th birthday and we are also going away on holiday, travelling in our motorhome, for 2 weeks or so. I’ll be back in blogland early in March to tell you all about it.
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