Out on our bikes

Saturday 24th October: Cool but bright and sunny. The start of a long weekend for New Zealand. In the morning I drove into town and bought some vegetable and herb plants, and by chance found a second-hand pair of curtains that will be good for the bathroom. When I returned, Steve had put up some curtain tracks in our bedroom and the spare bedroom. He then headed off with his aeroplanes in the motorhome to a fly-in at Timaru.
The boys and I stayed home. I ironed and put up some of the curtains and unpacked some more boxes. I needed to move a large wardrobe from one end of the house to the other. First I thought about using the Stonehenge-inspired method Steve had used for the cabinet a few days ago but decided the posts would make a mess on the carpet. So I brought the rolling-along idea up to date and used Peter's skateboard under the wardrobe instead!
In the afternoon we let the hens out of their house and allowed the goat and sheep up to the top paddock, where the grass was getting long. The hens and the ram lamb met for the first time. The ram put down his head, stamped his front foot and charged at each of them in turn. The hens scooted off back to their henhouse and hid!
The boys and I went for a cycle ride. We rode along Whitneys Road, left along Fitzmaurice Road, left down Court Road and left again into Whitneys Road. The road is single track and undulating. Other than the last 50m the whole journey was on gravel and I found it very slippy and skiddy.
The fruit bed I planted a couple of months ago is going well. The lemons are ready to pick, the nectarines are forming and the strawberries are all looking healthy.
Steve popped home in time for homemade sausages and then went back to Timaru for an evening of indoor flying.
In the evening I had a surprise visit from another homeschool family (Jennie) who was on the way home from a foul dinner out in Timaru. Jennie and Ian and I chatted while Renelle and Thomas played feedthehead.net, which kept them occupied and in giggles.
Later on I had a long chat catching up with Shirley and Felicity back in Frampton Cotterell.
The photos are along Whitneys Road, the War Memorial at the junction of Whitneys and Fitzmaurice, and our house from one of our nearest neighbours on Fitzmaurice Road.