After the cyclone

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 With both of us being retired our home activities are often determined by the weather. Neither of us cares for gardening or working outside when it is raining, cold, windy, or any combination of those conditions. This week has been a case in point. The week began with the State of Emergency being lifted, but the passing cyclone left us with wind and rain. A southerly breeze stepped in a reduced the overnight temperatures to 3º or 4º, encouraging us to change to the winter quilt on our bed. When not needing to go out we stayed at inside and started a colourful jigsaw of vintage gardening book covers:


Three pieces were missing but we enjoyed it all the same. We finished it in time to return to the Jigsaw Exchange on Saturday.


We ran some errands in town on Wednesday as the weather was dryer, investigating replacement mattresses for our bed amongst other things. It isn’t often that we go into town together so it was a bit of a treat. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone read by Stephen Fry entertained us while we continued with the jigsaw, and in the evening we quizzed, coming 5th with 92 points.


Aramoho Library was very quiet on Thursday, but with the improving weather I was able to do some work outside. I spent much of Friday with Mike. He wanted to do some more driving practice in our car before taking his practical test in the afternoon. Unfortunately he failed, but he is quite pragmatic about it. He now has a better understanding of what is expected.


Following our trip to the Jigsaw Exchange yesterday we both managed to get some work done in the garden, Nicky weeding and me cutting the grass. It was our second day of glorious sunshine and lovely autumn weather. Today is the same, starting with some lovely golden light with the sunrise:



We started watching the second series of Gone last night, a UK crime drama. There are another four episodes to go but Grand Designs NZ might take precedence this evening.


Take care, Rick and Nicky.

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