Easter Domesticity

I hope you have all had a lovely peaceful Easter like my family has. We have eaten too much and relaxed with books and videos. Plus exercised the body with beach and local walks.

Ducks on the local pond.

All four of the family got together for a dinner of Roast Lamb and vegies, with fresh fruit and custard for dessert. Plus the occasional chocolate Easter Egg.

I managed to persuade the 'boys' to clean their bedroom! The washing machine has worked hard!

Libraries open on Easter Sunday, it being a religious holiday, not a Public Holiday so my Sunday work was quiet and productive. Hopefully the resulting chaos on the Tuesday after Easter will not be as much as previous years as Victorian School children will be going back to school.

Easter Tuesday is the busiest day of the Library year, with this stuffy,"out-of-date", slated for 'Domesday' profession doing thousands of loans & returns, hundreds of queries and many more IT troubleshooting. Lots of eBook queries and other parts of the 'Learning Commons'.
As many of the members of the public seem desperate to use our facilities, I think the book and libraries will continue for quite a few more years. The recent Pew Study of American Libraries also predicts this, as Libraries remake themselves for the 21st Century. Australian studies (ALIA) also confirm that we will be useful for years to come.

So lets relax and enjoy a brief respite before tomorrow and in the next couple of weeks the Federal and State Budgets reveal how much we may be living beyond our means. Or at least the Liberal Party's version of it.
Happy Easter everyone.

I'll leave you with a photo of the new Christhcurch Cardboard Cathedral service yesterday. Thanks and love to my family.

Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral NZ 2014