Sunday 17th May: Another sunny day, a high of 16 degrees or so. We spent the morning doing bits and bobs of nothing in particular. After lunch we walked to view a house having an open day. Steve met us there after seeing a patient he's been called to. The house was built in 1874 as the Anglican vicarage and is one of the oldest residences in Waimate. It was more English in design than most of the homes we see here, with separate living rooms rather than open plan living. Attached to it is a 1970s extension complete with heating! However the main house was rather rickety and several of the horizontals didn't line up. The estate agent said that some of the piles it is built on top of have collapd just needed to be fixed up and the walls would straighten up again. The gardens were beautiful and the boys loved rushing around and playing hide-and-seek. One unexpected point was the tap outside a bedroom at the top of the stairs. Peter thought it was hilarious and promised if we bought the house he's sneak ou at night and turn it on!
For tea we had a gorgeous topside of beef we had been given a few days ago, along with 7 litres of milk straight from the udders. I cooked it in the slow cooker all day and we had Yorkshire pudding and the usual roast dnner accompaniments.
The photos are of "the tap" and Jonathan running round the vicarage back garden.
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