Thursday 7th May: Once the bread was baked we walked to the Playcentre and had a great morning with the other parents and their little children. Health and Safety is a little more relaxed in NZ than we have been used to. However it still came as a shock to find a 3 year old using a hot glue gun unsupervised, just a "Mind not to burn yourself" comment as it was handed it to him. And outside is a workbench for carpentry, with full size hammers, hand drills and saws. The Playcentre is for under school age children!
We walked home in the sunshine for lunch then schooled in the afternoon. For tea we had yesterday's sausages. Unfortunately although they had been awful to make, they turned out to be the tastiest so far! Coconut cookies for pudding, still warm from the oven. Yum.
I went to TKD in the evening and then came home to the news that my last surviving grandparent, Nanna Jess, had died. May she rest in peace.
The photos are from Playcentre. One shows the boys at the workbench, busy making holes in lumps of wood. The other is of another part of the outdoor area, with one of the primary schools immediately behind and the beautiful backdrop of the Hunter Hills.
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