Cornice Day

It's an easy start and an earlier flight. Air NZ has found planes from somewhere and we get away at 10:30. Makes it easier for school as I can teach my two senior classes, both doing assessments. Time when students need their teachers but we could all benefit from fewer. Trials and tribulations. Stress and hair pulling but I'm always amazed at the rebels who couldn't care less. God loves a tryer. 

Kahu and I have an argument getting out of the airport so I'm stressed before I get to school and walking in raises stress levels considerably. There's a shortage of teachers and I can candidly say I don't get paid enough for this shit. Without holidays to recover I wouldn't do it.

I'm ok walking out at the end of the day, heading to the house to meet Peter who is dropping off the plaster cornices. They're wrapped in cardboard and heavy. I offer to help then find I can't pick them up. Just the ceiling roses. We store them in the dining room then Peter measures the entry/hallway division for the arch. I'm not 3D and try to follow what he is doing and answer questions but it's a bit beyond my ken. The back yard is flooding and Cam and Jamie are putting up architraves and garage skirting. Little things make the house look like a home. Rock on boys.