Daddy's a Boozer!

Jo has been teaching Lily some new phrases. "Daddy's got wine. Aw Daddy!" is one. "Daddy's a boozer!" is another. She loves the second one. "Daddy's a boozer. Ha ha ha!" she says repeatedly throughout dinner.

Corrections

There is a cloud hanging over the library of Levin, with much annoyance being caused to the readers of the town. Someone has been defacing the library books.

They have been correcting the use of English, crossing out words like "gotten" and writing in words like "got". They must be quite prolific because there was one letter complaining about in the Horowhenua Mail last week and three this week. Quite right too.

Potates in buckets

It was the final of the spud in a bucket contest at work today. Top prize to Margaret with 909g with an amazing plant with fruit on it (?!). I weighed in with a disappointing 200g of potatoes and a half dead plant. Some people had nothing at all.

Floods

We had lots of flooding earlier this week. Apparently, 260mm fell on the Tararuas behind Levin in 24 hours. That sounds like a lot to me. The rivers were hugely swollen and there was water all over the fields and over the roads south of town.

We are watching a girly film at the moment, called Someone like you - Jo is loving it, I am reaching for the sick bag!

The Price of Cheese

Oil may be at $100 a barrel but the big talking point here is the price of milk. Cheese now costs $14 a kilo and butter a massive $5 per 500g. The dairy farmers are raking in the cash but it's not clear if the rest of us will see the benefits from all that Anchor butter being sent to China.

Puddles of wee all over the floor

We have been potty training Lily today. It has been very stressful and there are puddles of wee all over the house.

We made some progess though, now we have started to use incentives. We give her chocolate for each successful use of the potty; a yellow (white) one for a wee and a brown one for a poo.