A Fairy Called Barry

Theo came home on Friday and told us they'd had to write their own version of Jack and the Beanstalk at school.  He told us all the kids had laughed at his version because his had a funny name in it.  I thought at first it was a sad "All the kids had laughed" but soon realised he had a grin on his face when he was telling us about it.  Turns out he'd put a fairy into his story, but the fairy's name was Barry.  He knew it was funny just by the way he told us and yea, both Sarah and I were howling with laughter.  He was pretty pleased with himself.

Not a real lot has been happening otherwise since my last update.  Swimming was back on on Saturday, though with all sorts of new rules.  Enter this door, exit that.  Changing rooms closed except for toilet use.  I had to sit there the whole time with a mask on.  It was fine though, at least the experience was pretty much normal for the kids.

Sunday we went into town, Sarah went to Ocean Spa for a swim and I took the kids for a bike ride along Marine Parade.  We made it down to the Pump Track and they both enjoyed that, because it was such a lovely sunny day the Pump Track was packed with people, so we didn't stay too long.  I'll take them down another time though because they both really enjoyed it even though it was quite hard and a new experience for them.

Finally got Hairpin NAT working on my home Vyos router.  Only took me a year to sit down that figure that out properly.

We've been invited to Jordan's wedding next year!  That's exciting.

And gosh, that's really all I can think of.  It's just been a couple of weeks of the usual work work school school work work, plus a couple of weekends where we've just mostly hung out and relaxed and done housework.  Quite boring but that's life sometimes I suppose!

Tim