Crumbs

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 For some reason or other, I think one of us has vacuumed every day this week. It’s very easy to see crumbs and dust on the hard floor, and very easy to vacuum. We have also had a number of visitors, which is my usual motivation!


Sue and Yvonne were booked to come round for morning tea on Monday. They arrived shortly before Nicky returned from vestry duty cleaning at church. Christine and her daughter Blaire who had been cleaning too, came with her. The six of us shifted a quantity of sandwiches and scones, and put the world to rights by lunchtime.


On Friday evening, our neighbours Elaine, Mark and Jacqui (who still owns the section next to us) came round for tea and cake. I made an orange rice cake (from a recipe in the newspaper) which was interesting, but disappointingly bland. Mark has been travelling abroad a great deal with his work this year. It was good to hear about his experiences.


Today, Wallace and Joy came round for afternoon tea and to watch the four Wallace and Gromit short films. Nicky had mentioned this to them a number of times, but finding a convenient time had been a problem. More scones were consumed and we all enjoyed our plastercine heroes.


In other news, aside from our regular duties we went to the cinema on Tuesday morning (the cheap rate has now gone up to $11) to see the new Indiana Jones film. We both enjoyed the escapism. We had dinner out on Wednesday, spending our quiz team winnings. All eleven of us were there (that includes 4 month old Charlotte who usually sleeps through the evening). We would have won the quiz that followed if there wasn’t a rule about winning two (or three) weeks in succession, but we didn’t mind, we still had a very enjoyable evening.


Nicky attended a funeral for a very popular lady who was one of the founders of a local garden centre Springvale. Nicky has also been to the hairdressers. I have done a little MacOnSite work, and we finished the jigsaw.



When the weather has allowed, we have had some time in the garden. The combination of light and rain clouds has produced some lovely views:



Take care, Rick and Nicky.

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