The Flying Fox of Spencer Park

A fairly quiet week and the good weather finally broke. Maybe it was with good timing that I'd planted a few vegetables in the garden as we got a bit of rain. Fortunately, we missed the remnants of the Australian dust storms that had engulfed Sydney and Brisbane. They affected Auckland and the North Island a bit. The boys have broken up for school for two weeks and we've had a busy week socially. Someone had a birthday during the week, but as the video shows, she's not acting her age!!



We discovered Spencer Park reserve yesterday to the north of the city. It had great climbing frames (as seems typical of Christchurch playgrounds), but also three long 'flying foxes' or aerial runways that we all had a go on. A five minute walk through the forest and we were on the beach with the surf crashing in. As per usual, someone had to go for a paddle.


Today was a good day, in that we might have found a church that suits us all and is relatively near. Only time will tell. It's also been good to entertain guests and be invited out by friends this week. It's the relationships that will really help us settle. We feel blessed.

And finally, another pretty picture of the valley just up from home. A less pretty picture yesterday afternoon was my panting face as I tackled the steep climb to the right of the picture on my bike for the first time. Dodgy gears and a lack of fitness dashed my hopes for next year's mountain stages of the Tour de France. Still, the challenge has been laid down and my goal is to climb Worsley Road (check it out on Street View, it's steep!)

Until next time, Bye