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Lobstar friends.
Just off to visit a 90-something lady who was close to my mum when I was a girl.
She was afraid to drive with 3 small girls and was rather stranded in a (then) rather remote area.
My mum persuaded her to learn- and over the course of one summer she taught her by driving with her through her farm fields and up the off-road tracks.
I'll never forget her frog hopping the car about over the field in front of her farm house.
She was so kind - often letting me find an egg under one of her hens and taking me in to eat it with toasty soldiers. 
Is it your birthday tomorrow Doodle?
It's mine on Saturday. How will you spend yours?
I've booked afternoon tea at a hotel with my friend. She's the one who stayed here when her house was flooded.
Today I had the DGD for gardening, pottery and some drawing.
The gardening consisted of finding potatoes and filling every container we could find. The younger one kept accidentally cutting tatties in half with the spade and saying "never mind they can be chips!"
Pottery consisted of painting the pots they made last time and making new ones on the wheel.
I have them again on Wednesday so not sure what we'll do. I've also bought a couple of tickets to Romeo and Juliet at the Fringe.
Such a nice description of your friend NotSpag. I'll bet she was pleased to see you.
Great photos.
I hope your health problems are getting better Kaimoana. It's all bound to get you down. Enjoy the Sallies lunch.
I think my Helper is cooking tea so I can slump in front of the telly.
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Another deer after the plums.
One of the things planned for our elders group is another pottery day.
This time it will be 'things to hang'.
Various shapes will be offered : leaves, circles, jandals, triangle, teapots etc bisque fired with a hole for string or fancy cord.
We will paint these,as we did before with the dishes and mugs and they'll go off to be glazed and fired again.
Inspiration Grammaretto?
Birthday Greetings Doodle and Grammaretto
Tonight we went swimming at sunset.
It was horrendously cold because the tide was right out.
Brrr!
I too hope you have a wonderful birthday on Saturday Grammaretto .
Unless you live near central Auckland, Afternoon Tea or High Tea as it's called here, is not something Kiwis do.
A couple of the big hotels put it on but at £39 per person, mainly for affluent tourists.
Very chilly this morning so I am wearing several layers and britches 
to keep warm.
The Police helicopter is circling overhead, so someone is in for a bad time.
This notice from an online retailer made me smile.
"Try not to worry if its taking a bit longer to reach you than normal the whole worlds new normal is slow"
No doubt the consequences of cost-cutting by expecting one person to do what formerly 3 managed.
At least it made you smile and not howl Kaimoana 
Any news of those magic herbs?
I have developed a painful leg on the new hip side and am hobbling about like a very old person. I'm seeing a physio tomorrow so I am hoping for a instant cure.
The wee girls were a delight again yesterday. I've discovered their love of gardening extends only to harvesting, planting and spotting butterflies. Weeding and digging out roots, no.
A comma butterfly and a wood? and a hairstreak were spotted.
Then they got very creative in the pottery. Afterwards we peeled and chopped a lot of windfall apples and made a crumble. They go home today and are not looking forward to school next week.
I hope it will be better than they think. It's a small school with composite classes.
The Shakespeare play was actually a ballet with no words at all. I should read before I book. I enjoyed it though my head nodded a couple of times. 😴 and the journey home was complicated by my inability to walk properly.
I hope other Lobstars are faring well.
It's not a new school but new teachers Doodle. It will probably be fine.
My girls went out today and left me to cook. . I had almost forgotten how.
I picked lettuce leaves but noticed the kale has been totally destroyed by cabbage white caterpillars. I think they're beyond hope
Do you remember the very hungry caterpillar? well he's here with all his relations.
Are you still having very hot weather?
It's odd here. Overcast and thundery but no rain yet. Some parts of Scotland have had huge hail stones and flash floods.
In a rush today as electricity will be turned off (yes, in this cold weather!) from 9am to 3pm.
orry about your sore legs Gram I know how that feels - are you diabetic? That's whats finished mine off.
Funnily enough Doodle it's the new firm I've ordered my leaves from who posted the 'slow\ mesage !!
I'm jinxed ha ha ha.
Gramaretto mixed fortunes for you this week. Did the physion warn you that strains in that area can take a very long time to heal? Last time I fell, my Sittupon was sore for months, despite physion (which seemed to make it worse) :-(
As for the power cut - I got up early, got the laundry done, had a good breakast, filled a flask for a coffee later and made sure the house was warm by keeping all the blinds down - and I wore a hat
When the power goes off my St John Alarm unit warns me, as if I didn’t know, every 12 seconds, ‘NO POWER. Please check your power source.’
As there is no way of switching this off, due to its fail-safe integral batteries, I tolerated a few minutes of this hysteria before grabbing the unit and marching it into the garage, then smothering it in a bag containing a duvet. Unable to hear it from the main room I went back to relax with my knitting but but 45 minutes later there was an urgent knock on my door and an ambulance crew stood there. Somehow
I’d inadvertently pressed a button to alert them.
When Mepa arrived to change my bed, we decided, as no vaccing or other power-based activities could be done, to go out.
We had a lovely meal in a very good Indian restaurant nearby. Thoroughly enjoyed both the company and food.
Then a nice surprise email when the power came on: DiL will bring my little grand-daughter on Sunday as her brother has an event in this area. I have seen her only once since November so I am so looking forward to that. They are even staying for brunch.
A week full of treats.
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