Hi team this is to let you know that yesterday I got word that my uncle in Palmerston North was in hospital and my auntie home alone with dementia. So I packed my bag leapt into a plane and arrived in the evening. We are going to visit him this afternoon. Already I feel really tired! But things are generally going well. He will be in hospital a few more nights and I will stay on after that for as long as seems appropriate. There's a small possibility that may be several weeks if they move from their retirement village into an apartment so I will be with you for the meeting tonight by zoom on my phone is my computer has chosen this extraordinarily inconvenient moment to kark it. All this means I won't be able to coordinate sowing the lawn really sorry but it's extremely difficult to snatch a few moments for organising my life sometimes I go to the toilet to do it and I'm dictating this so apologies if the punctuation is odd. Could we have another volunteer to coordinate, as the turf team / grass group is now down to Ngaire alone as Anthony is away for a little while. I've been told by my landscape construction friend that we need to get on and sow the lawn in the next couple of weeks. I would have thought that 'autumn' is a wider timeframe but i suppose winter cold comes swiftly at our latitude. whatever the case I doubt that I will be able to do things like ordering and collecting the seed from a distance, let alone the practical work. See you tonight Claire