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Friday, November 04, 2005
One week down and feeling most relaxed although have Got a surprising amount of Stuff Done. Such as buy a car. Brief (my doing) being a 'big ugly station wagon [estate]' we have done ourselves proud. While not actually as ugly as all that, it is a rather dodgy colour - a sort of silvery-khaki-pale-mucus. Job jobbed! For those who are the least bit interested in cars it's a Honda Orthia, which sounds like a brand of mobility scooter but isn't.
Becca's first week of being a proper Kiwi has passed off nicely - she's having a marvellous time and under her grandparents' patient, not to say relentless, tutelage, has picked up about five thousand words of vocab in the last eight days, thereby throwing my many shortcomings as a fulltime Bugwrangler/educator into sharp relief. She is extraordinarily happy, having particularly bonded with my father, whom she addresses, confusingly, as Dad/Dad-dad, in accordance with her practice of omitting the first half of words, often repeating the second half instead. (Thus 'Balamory' becomes, simply, 'Mory', and butterflies are fly-flies.) Jack is still Daddy.
Meanwhile Jack and I are enjoying being able to leave her with the g'parents and hardly any guilt and go off and Do Stuff such as buy cars and open bank accounts without having to pause every ten seconds and say Becca just a minute mummy won't be long Becca come here please Becca leave that ALONE BECCA! &c
Many thanks for all the emails and good wishes - will do my best to catch up with people as soon as poss.
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