Cave persons

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I have had another busy week with work, which has done good things to my September figures. Two of my days were long visits to one customer, but I have still managed to get the washing done, raid the supermarket, cook chicken and mushroom pasta bake (which became known as rooster al forno) and make a smoked salmon flan, so I’m still keeping on with the important things!

Nicky has had another quiet week at the library. She is involved is setting up a Harry Potter display so took three boxes of books and artefacts with her to work yesterday as she was using Luna for her transportation. She has also helped with the laundry (especially on Monday) and enjoyed her life group evening.

The weather has been milder, with a mixture of warm sunshine, noticeable rain and lengthening days.

With Nicky at work and Scrabbling at Stella’s yesterday, I had a walk down to the beach in order to take the long way round to the West Liquor store to buy a bottle of porter so that I could make iron bread for tea. I also finished reading Janesville, a very well written, informative and at times moving account of the impact of GM closing one of its assembly plants and the loss of 7500 jobs. Stella recommended it to me and I can strongly recommend it to anyone interested in how a community changes with the impact of mass job losses.

Today started cool, clear and sunny, so after Nicky left for church I headed out to Karekare. Even though the sun was warm, the cold southerly wind was dictating the experienced temperature on the beach (though at least the sand wasn’t exfoliating). The wind didn’t feel as bad after I had been in the sea which was cold enough to make the bridge of my nose think I was eating ice cream too quickly, and that after having my head in the water for just a few seconds. The walk back to the car was more pleasant with the sun on my face and the wind to my back.

To take advantage of the weather Nicky and I went down to Silo 6 this afternoon to look at an exhibition called Into the Underworld. It was a series of images created using LiDAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar) of the Auckland volcanic caves. They were etherial and fascinating. We they walked round the Viaduct Basin before returning home for tea, soup, iron bread and more tea. The tellybox is the focus of our attention this evening.

Take care, Rick

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