A supportive thread begun during Lockdown and which now continues to be a daily treasure (even an addiction!).
All welcome.
Sounds as if you’re prepared for all weathers Nfk - glad you’re back with us. 
I just had to look up ‘Wot ho!’ remembering Jeeves and ‘a garden is a lovesome thing God wot’. It means to know (God knows, or I know) Fancy that
Someone mentioned Jennings & Darbishire earlier. Years ago, I wrote to Anthony Buckeridge telling him how I’d loved his wonderful characters. I received a sweet letter back. His books are still in print.
I don’t plan further adventures for Trevor but having just finished a draft for a Grebe.. (only 3,000 pairs left in Australasia) who wanted a dancing partner, I read yesterday someone has pipped me to the post. 
That’s a good idea Doodle I share MrD’s nervousness about balloons and could never blow one up (except with a bit of gelignite perhaps 
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Glad you went to art class and enjoyed it. Few artists, even the Old Masters (and Mistresses 
) were completely happy with their work. Other people’s opinions are just that – opinions. The truth is actually in your pleasure at creating and being in good company.
Many of the new-builds here Grammaretto have been criticised as ‘rabbit hutches’: tiny rooms and no gardens – but they will suit some people. My family have worked out what they will need as a minimum and are looking at nothing less.
One day you will probably walk into a place and think “This is it!”. My mother, an elderly lady on her own bought a huge, old Kauri villa, much bigger than she needed because of just that feeling But was blissfully happy there.
Cherry I think I may write a short story, ‘Dreamy Cream Cakes in Cherry Cove’ . I’m sorry to hear a cluster of bothersome things are crowding in - the last thing you need. Sending warm, squishy hugs dear friend.
A surprise visit from my eldest grand-daughter this week was accompanied by a hail storm so fierce that an hour later, the drifts were still piled up in the doorway. 
I gave her the vintage linens I’d collected for her; she was thrilled.
I plan a quiet weekend but it may not turn out that way!
The Orion Nebula
^The good thing about art, Doodle, is that it absorbs you completely and gives your mind a rest.^
My thoughts exactly 
The Canadian Helpers who were such a help to me are now in Arran Nfk.!
I think they are working for the Summer at a holiday camp. Maybe it's the same one. 😉
I like coincidences.
I'm so glad you are having such a lovely time.
I am sure this rain can't keep going for ever.
There was a gap in the rain today so I went to my favourite garden centre where there is a miniature railway. I bought a couple of healthy looking plants for my big planter plastic bin by my front steps. I hope the deer and slugs leave them alone.
I also did a house viewing. It was charming but a bit too small. Food for thought.
Ha ha Doodle here's the exceedingly thin young man doing a great job in my bedroom.
Isn't YouTube great for learning things?
The answer to Rainbows and Nectar was The Moon. There are hundreds of features and I am guessing the US named them. The Sea of Hatred is odd.
I think you too would benefit from a stylus - they are cheap, just like a pen with a soft end and you use that instead of a finger on your keyboard.
ixion
I'm told Amazon UK is now selling Trevor - friend in Sri Lanka apparently ordered copies for her London-based family.
Your peripatetic doctor rellie sounds incredibly brave. A future book would be worth thinking about if she keeps a detailed diary.
To be truthful, I'm seriously wondering whether to show Gubbins the black & gold baloons. They unsettle me - no idea why- they looked good in the sunshine but are rather intimidating now.
The pink ones, from the Sallies Mothers Day service, are much nicer.
How much extra those photos tell about me! The little red stool I renovated and decorated; the vintage linen and jewellry box DS son made at school (note to burglars: don't bother, you wouldn't even get the price of a cup of coffee for the lot)
And the pink balloons in the only part of my garage yet to be sorted out.
Lazybones
Is it really a whole year Grammaretto? Unbelievable
Yes NotS the tokotoko is often brought down hard to make a point (punctuation), or waved to include everyone, or even held horizontally if the speaker need an emotional pause. It can talk as elequently as the speaker in expert hands. not mine
I have found that young physios and indeed almost anyone under 40 who tries to ‘improve’ elders, has little idea of our limitations, emotionally and physically.
Just as I can’t think like today’s 20 year olds – their world is not mine, for which I am deeply grateful
I was given impossible physiotherapy goals at once, which made things much worse but I soon learned to ease myself in rather than just give up as many elders do.
That worked perfectly, it just took a while longer.
I didn’t ask for physio for my leg this time, still very painful after a month. It’s the most lovely blue-purple – wish I could get wool that colour, it would make lovely slippers.
How fabulous to be given a Rakau Korero Kaimoana2. It does looks lovely but the meaning and symbolism of it is more significant and important! You are obviously well loved and respected.
I love that you can use it for "punctuation"
Absolutely throwing it down here and windy. It's this sort of weather which makes me glad Grammaretto is geting her roof fixed before winter rolls round again. What a relief.
I have two lovely things to share with you al.
Trevor is being reprinted.
They sold the whole first print run and there is still enough demand to do it all again. My magic duck is still flying high.
The next bit of astonishing news is that yesterday, to my utter amazement, I was presented with a Rakau Korero, a tokotoko.
A carved walking stick.
"Rakau Korero is regarded as a staff of office, often used by tribal elders to confer authority, status and to punctuate speech. The carvings represent ancestral figures and are there to protect and guide the speaker and add authority to (his) speech".
It produced a very rare phenomenon – I was lost for words!
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