20-02-2023, 04:08 PM
Good afternoon - beautiful day in the bay Kiwimade the Eskdale church has already been cleared out and all the contents taken away to be restored and kept safe .I see on the Eskdale Facebook page they have set up two playgroups one for school age children run by the local teachers and the other for pre schoolers .Parents can drop their children off while they do cleaning up - brilliant idea
Had my first chance today to actually talk to my sister - when she was talking to me on the day she only had a little bit of surface water down in the sheep paddock - within ten minutes she was waist deep - she is 77 with these two great big lumbering dogs who didn’t want to swim - a man from the local marae saved her - they were 3 days hearing helicopters going overhead but of course nobody knew they were there - by the time somebody swam out to alert the helicopter it was gone - her granddaughter from Bulls finally got the police to send the army in - I contacted the police twice but they were swamped .She is having real difficulty dealing with losing all her previous memorabilia that belonged to a Mum and her daughter who was killed - she will stay down at Bulls for a while and then make some decisions
We have all had a bit of a chuckle some friends of ours had a very acrimonious marriage break up - she was awarded an empty block of cropping land on one side of the road and he got the house on the other side of the road - he died a year or two ago and left the house to some obscure charity who have done absolutely nothing with it - the flood picked the house up took it across the road and dumped it on her land - if he is up there looking down he will be furious
Robie brought me a piece of Banana cake which they sell - it is made by Original foods from CHCH - it’s better than mine and I reckon I make a great banana cake - only ate half and the other half is looking very appealing
Had my first chance today to actually talk to my sister - when she was talking to me on the day she only had a little bit of surface water down in the sheep paddock - within ten minutes she was waist deep - she is 77 with these two great big lumbering dogs who didn’t want to swim - a man from the local marae saved her - they were 3 days hearing helicopters going overhead but of course nobody knew they were there - by the time somebody swam out to alert the helicopter it was gone - her granddaughter from Bulls finally got the police to send the army in - I contacted the police twice but they were swamped .She is having real difficulty dealing with losing all her previous memorabilia that belonged to a Mum and her daughter who was killed - she will stay down at Bulls for a while and then make some decisions
We have all had a bit of a chuckle some friends of ours had a very acrimonious marriage break up - she was awarded an empty block of cropping land on one side of the road and he got the house on the other side of the road - he died a year or two ago and left the house to some obscure charity who have done absolutely nothing with it - the flood picked the house up took it across the road and dumped it on her land - if he is up there looking down he will be furious
Robie brought me a piece of Banana cake which they sell - it is made by Original foods from CHCH - it’s better than mine and I reckon I make a great banana cake - only ate half and the other half is looking very appealing