Hello, I'm back
.....I'm not very good at making New Year Resolutions but this year I am determined that I WILL post an entry when I log in to LJ, before I catch up with everyone's entries. It seems to have been a lifetime without LJ although in the greater scheme of things it isn't really long. It is just that I have missed my LJ friends. Hopefully the malaise that affected me at the end of 2009 is virtually passed and life will be normal and full on once again. The psoriasis programme is exceedingly difficult to handle while away from home. I'll write about that separately.
.....MrFan and I are currently in Palmerston North supporting daughterfan 's brood taking part in NZ's National Roller Sports Championships. It has been a very full-on week with many events each day, some of special interest involving our three grandchildren and some watching other national experts in their field competing and generally strutting their stuff. Can one strut on roller skates? Somehow I doubt it.
.....Our 15 yr old grandson GSM is new to the competitive part of speed skating and has had great success with about 7 bronze medals capped with a first in the artistic field with a Gold Medal in Dance Pairs, to the delight of his partner, her parents and his. His own as well I expect. GSG, now 13, is competing in higher grade this year against older skaters with more experience so although her marks, scored against a National Scale, are pleasing they were generally outside the medal range. She did receive about three medals I think but the aging memory is letting me down as I write this. GSW and his dance partner were not participating in competitive events but skating against National scores and were satisfied with their achievements. He was also in events that were new to him but in which he held his own.
.....This evening we will attend a closing Ceremony during which the names will be announced of whose who qualified for inclusion in Oceania Championships in July. That is awaited anxiously and hopefully.
It has been a strenuous if sedentary week sitting concentrating on events so we are both tired and will not wait until the end of the evening when younger fitter folk will take part in a disco.
Something we did while here was to farewell our PN grand-daughter who is leaving next weel for a year at school in Sweden. She plans to keep a web blog while she is away so we are keenly looking forward to that as it will be such a different experience for her. I doubt she has any comprehension of the change in temperatures.
We head back to Upper Hutt tomorrow trying to leave early to avoid the build up of traffic on the highways as holiday folk return to real life in the work place on Monday. I plan to remedy my lack of Christmas messages next week.
.....MrFan and I are currently in Palmerston North supporting daughterfan 's brood taking part in NZ's National Roller Sports Championships. It has been a very full-on week with many events each day, some of special interest involving our three grandchildren and some watching other national experts in their field competing and generally strutting their stuff. Can one strut on roller skates? Somehow I doubt it.
.....Our 15 yr old grandson GSM is new to the competitive part of speed skating and has had great success with about 7 bronze medals capped with a first in the artistic field with a Gold Medal in Dance Pairs, to the delight of his partner, her parents and his. His own as well I expect. GSG, now 13, is competing in higher grade this year against older skaters with more experience so although her marks, scored against a National Scale, are pleasing they were generally outside the medal range. She did receive about three medals I think but the aging memory is letting me down as I write this. GSW and his dance partner were not participating in competitive events but skating against National scores and were satisfied with their achievements. He was also in events that were new to him but in which he held his own.
.....This evening we will attend a closing Ceremony during which the names will be announced of whose who qualified for inclusion in Oceania Championships in July. That is awaited anxiously and hopefully.
It has been a strenuous if sedentary week sitting concentrating on events so we are both tired and will not wait until the end of the evening when younger fitter folk will take part in a disco.
Something we did while here was to farewell our PN grand-daughter who is leaving next weel for a year at school in Sweden. She plans to keep a web blog while she is away so we are keenly looking forward to that as it will be such a different experience for her. I doubt she has any comprehension of the change in temperatures.
We head back to Upper Hutt tomorrow trying to leave early to avoid the build up of traffic on the highways as holiday folk return to real life in the work place on Monday. I plan to remedy my lack of Christmas messages next week.