Not long to go now

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Our week began with Nicky still not being in the best of health, so she had Tuesday at home, and still felt a bit queasy at work on Wednesday. The library has had some very busy periods this week, so Nicky has been tired on her return home. She enjoyed her life group session on Wednesday evening and had her hair attended to by Doris on Thursday morning.

My working week has been reasonable, but we had had some odd bits of rain which have required a little planning for getting the laundry dry. While Nicky was at life group I went for an evening skinny dip with eight other people over at Herne Bay. The sea was lovely (calm and not to cool) and seeing the harbour bridge illuminated while in the water was a treat.

Nicky had another busy day at the library yesterday followed by Scrabble with Steve and Ros at Stella’s. When she got back we watched The 33, a film about the Chilean gold miners who were trapped and eventually rescued, which was good. During the day I made a dozen individual lemon meringue pies, ready for todays visitors.

Jancis, Helen and Doris came round for morning tea after church this morning, arriving shortly after I had completed the ironing. After lunch Nicky made date and orange scones and I made a selection of sandwiches for our afternoon tea with Margaret (from Deep & Meaningful) and her squeeze Sean. We had a very pleasant afternoon until we decided to walk off the calories; the sun went in the the rain arrived, quashing our exercise plan. As our guests headed off to their evening engagement (a concert), the weather improved, so Nicky and I took an evening stroll. We will be settling down to watch Victoria shortly.

Take care, Rick

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