Last Sat was the A&P show. This is one of the big events on the Kaitaia social calendar. As usual the main event for most of the College students is Friday night. We went on Saturday, which is the main show day.
On the Thursday night we put some last minute entries to the indoor section. Stuart had been working on a Hellboy gun and he was stoked to win First prize with it. I( entered 3 categories of the veggy section and was pretty chuffed to get 3rd for my yellow tomatoes and 2nd for my dwarf beans.
The show was the usual mix of fair and commerce and animals and horses. I enjoyed meeting some familiar faces hanging around the greeny sections. We also helped the ATC to person one of the entrance gates.
Other news this week: we had a big dump of rain on Tuesday night. About 2 inches fell overnight. It helped to keep our tank fuller than it had been. The soil remains very dry. We are on a high fire alert and the town water supply is critically low. They are even talking of rationing and turning off for hours at a time. One of the school kids asked me if the school would be shut if the water was cut off. I said that it might be and her response was to tell everyone to turn on all the taps to bring forward that time!
Wednesday was School Athletics Day. Very hot and a fullon outside day. Lots of good things. Eric has got himself a catering role. Along with a number of other non-athletic souls, he was on the cooking party. They went around with tasteful stripey blue aprons, carrying tea and scones to the teachers scattered all over the grounds. He reckoned that he walked further than most of the runners ran in their races.
Stuart had to wear red to represent his House (Ngarimu). He informed us at 8am on Wednesday that he had nothing red, in a display of true adoloescent good planning. He ended up going round all day in a rather sweaty red Swanndri ( a NZ woollen knee length hunters shirt).
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