School holidays
October 13, 2011
Now that Eve is at school we have to deal with school holidays (pre-school childcare was all year round). There is currently a 2 week school holiday, but the university term is still running and so I am busy much of the time. A bit of a challenge. We are going up north this weekend to let my parents look after Eve for a few days.
I was in the library the other day and “The Arrival” by Shaun Tan caught my eye. It is an amazing wordless graphic novel. Some of the finest drawings I have ever seen.
Reminds me that I have forgotten to mention the Auckland Art Gallery, whose fancy new building has just opened. The new building is really nice. On the sculpture terrace there is Jeppe Hein’s `Long Modified Bench’, which is a cross between a park bench and a roller-coaster. Cute.
The two big news stories in NZ at the moment are the rugby world cup and the container ship “Rena” that crashed onto a reef and is spilling fuel and containers onto our pristine beaches.
