I've had a really busy weekend, and got loads done.

Its New Zealand winter now, so it's cold but most days we get some sun. We went to Bethell's Beach on Saturday, which is where Xena was filmed (Calliope's cave). Really beautiful beach, lovely sand dunes,and HUGE waves that were whipping up foam which we caught as it blew across the beach.

Today I carried on working on the fairy grotto - I'm making the door of the room into a giant tree trunk by painting a tree around it - it's quite difficult to get the shape of the boughs right. So far I've used 3 colours of leaves, but I'm going to have to go back and reshape some of it. I've been using acrylic paint, and one of the tubes was almost solid and smelt like old brussells sprouts (not kidding) - it worked okay once I'd mixed it with water. I also reorganised and sorted out all my daughters toys, and did all the washing and cleaned the fridge. This is mainly because we've got a visitor arriving on Wednesday for a month.

I'd been having weird dreams lately, lots of dreams about dead people, so I have had a phone round over the weekend to make sure everyone is still alive. I spoke to my best mate, who I hadn't really spoken to for a few months cos it's difficult with a 12 hour time difference when we're both doing things. I was also looking up something on Google, and by chance I tried putting in one of my friends from college, who came up on her work website. I emailed her and she wrote back - we lost touch years ago, cos I used to move about every six months with work. I don't know if it's because its winter, but I am trying to catch up with people I owe e-mails to now, and trying to update our family website (which is only for our family to see photos of what we're doing here).

I'm also really tired and trying to eat more healthily because of it - today I lapsed with a danish for breakfast, but had celery soup for lunch, which is meant to be very cleansing, and steamed veg with cheese sauce for dinner, although we started doing stuff for lunches for the week after dinner, so I also had a cheese twistie and a banana muffin and a bit of chocolate shortbread ( we add the healthy stuff in later)