Two lovely days

I'll need to keep this brief as I'm writing at work . . .

It was Mother's Day here on Sunday. I was up early, had tea and toast in bed and lovely presents from Ishbel (candle and home-made photo frame) and the boys gave me a Wasgij jigsaw puzzle (have you heard of them? They are great fun - the picture on the box is NOT the picture on the jigsaw - the picture on the jigsaw is either what the people in the picture on the box can see, or what happens next. You have no idea what the picture will be until the last piece goes in). I then went out to RFS training.

Or not training. We are preparing for hazard reduction burns this winter so, for the second Sunday in a row, I was out with a small group of others cutting trails through the bush behind houses in Valley Heights. It's hard work, raking the leaves and branches and bushes away, scraping down to bare earth, leaving a trail a metre or so wide for kilometres along. The birdies appreciated it though, coming down to see what beasties we'd grubbed up.

I got home, very tired, just before 1pm. Rob had left for his soccer match but Ian and the other two had made a baked chicken dinner for me. Yummm. Afterwards, full as a goog as Ian would say, I toddled off to read. I didn't even finish the page . . .

Yesterday, my birthday, started off quietly. I have to take Ian in to catch the 6:55am train these days so we were out early. Even when I moaned that the mini (my mini) that had been in the car yard had gone he didn't say anything about my birthday. I got a call from him once I got home though - my colleague Rita runs Book Express (library service on the train station) and she'd 'reminded' him!!

At work Jeanette, one of our elderly volunteers who usually comes in on Tuesdays and Thursdays, had changed her day, gotten up really early and come in with a yummy lemon cake which we devoured at morning tea. Then Rita came with lunch for me - a yummy spicy tomato soup which she makes from a Dutch recipe - don't ask me to name it. Then mid morning a bunch of flowers arrived from Sharon.

After work Ian arranged for us to go out for dinner. I chose to go to the Indian restaurant just across the road from work although we had to go home and collect Jamie first. It is never busy at that restaurant which is a shame because their food is very tasty. We were joined by Sharon and Holly and filled ourselves up on curry, rice and naan bread. Yummmmm. Ian and Jamie walked home.

So I've had a lovely two days.

Thank you GD & GT for the Cyprus books. I've not had the time to give them a really good look yet, but on first glance they look interesting. Was Shirley wanting to read this blog, or the library one? Either way she's welcome. Just give her the url for each:

http://springwoodcolquhouns.blogspot.com/
and http://readersinthemist.blogspot.com/

Thank you too, Fiona, Mark and Rory for the necklace. Lovely.

I got a digital camera from the family for my birthday. I chose it myself last weekend. I wanted a smaller one than the one we've had and I got a little pouch for it that I can put on my belt when I'm out on the fireground.

BTW: I was at book group on Friday. We are going to have a trivia night at our meeting next month to raise money for MS research. There is a thing called Throw the Book which is for book groups - they supply all the questions so it's easy to do. We're going to open up our book group to family and friends to come and play too. I'm quite excited about it.