Halloween Hell and Cricket Heaven

We had eight groups of trick or treaters today which equates to about 30 kids. That's a ridiculous amount of trick or treaters and very annoying when you have to keep answering the door all the time. We ran out of sweets in the end and had to hide in the bedroom.

Better news however is that Toby is now old enough for backyard cricket and can chuck a ball at least 2m for me to whack into the shrubs with my tennis raquet. Happy days are here!

Victory for the All Blacks. Hooray!

Yesterday was a great day for NZ with the rugby world cup victory, the first for 24 years. It was a tense and nervy final which could have gone wrong any minute and I can't say I enjoyed it. But the country has apparently gone mad for it today, with thousands of people dressed in black lining the streets in Auckland to see the team parade past on the back of utes, with bagpipes, dancing and the like.

Rolleston on the other hand has remained quiet.

Tupperware Madness hits Rolleston

Tonight Jo is at a Tupperware party. She has been to four tupperware parties in the last ten days. That's crazy! But there's more. This is the second Tupperware party she has been to today. What kind of mad person goes to two Tupperware parties in one day? Jo. That's who. But it gets worse. She is going to another next week. That's five in all. Is there no end to this Tupperware insanity?

Lily's Latest pics

Here are some pictures by Lily. She and Toby went to Orana Park Wildlife Park today. Jo says they didn't really bother looking at any animals but spent most of the time playing on a rock.