I'm a working girl now!
First day yesterday went really well, the dental practice is looking amazing and I met lots of lovely patients. I got up really, really early and made cupcakes. The patients seemed a little frightened to eat them though, like they think if we see them eating sweet things it'll be giving the game away!!Then I went to check the garden, feed the animals, water the veggies etc and to my joy found the first courgette flower and a teeny tiny patty pam! Yippee the veggies are on their way.

This is supposed to be a mesculin mix - looks more like a lot of Chinese greens to me! ( which are lovely, but not what I was expecting)


The beans are buzzing with bumble bees!
Everything has taken a wee growth spurt since I got home - it hadn't really rained at all and things just needed watering. They're happy wee veggies now.

and now the Dental Practice!
It's all finished so when I saw it for the first time after getting back from Scotland I was blown away. All my photographs are up and the printing is amazing.

I'm really pleased!

this is Vanessa's and my desk ~ isn't it great!
Quite tired, though. Still got a wee bit of jet lag and with travelling we're doing an almost 12 hour day. I'll get used to it though, so it's all good.

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Some very exciting news for us!

This has happened with a speed that you wouldn't believe, but due to various circumstances
(some amazing and some rather unpleasant!) we are now the proud joint owners of, what will be, in 2 weeks, a new dental practice in Kiataia!
We've gone into partnership with R&V and it's incredibly exciting. It is also, at the moment, incredibly exhausting! The building is excellent and in the best location, but it needs a lot of cosmetic work, like a LOT! and as we're opening in 2 weeks we have to work so so hard! We spent this weekend up there staying in a wee cabin at the holiday park in Ahipara and we just worked and worked. I've been mostly painting.
I have to say that I am gobsmacked by the amount of work that we got through, it's just amazing.

I shall post some before and afters once we have the 'afters' so that there's an immediate comparison.

We did have time for a quick break on 90 mile beach and take a few pics!
this one makes me laugh! Lloyd had just put some stuff into the jeep and the dogs obviously thought "You're going nowhere without us!"

Anyway it's all go! And this is what it looks like
what did we do before we had phones and computers?