I managed to do about 1 hr of work this morning. Mary has been working for days and has grown tired of such pursuits. Especially as her water ran dry at home and she found a neighbour with as much wine as water and came to work clean, but with a hang-over. It was great to catch up with her again, but while I was happily wheeching about with the vacuum cleaner, she got bored and pulled the flex out. The next unit we went to service asked us to come back in an hour so she gave them the linen and towels and left them to it! So I got home in time for coffee. Meg managed 2 and a half hours of work later in the day. Robbi took her to work and managed to get this self-conscious photo of her outside The Little Brown House.
The boys and I went back to Diamond Lake as they were so fascinated by it's frozen state. That is Finn trying to scare me by looking like he was falling in, and Mt Roy in the back ground of the other photo. The ice must have been at least a foot deep. Not a creek or groan and no moving bubbles under the surface. Although it was in the shade, and probably is for most of the day, hence it's deeply frozen-ness, it was amazing to stand for so long, in fleece-lined crocs, jeans and a buffalo jacket and not be cold. No wind chill factor. It was boredom that got me in the end. It seems that children don't get bored with ice.
grateful for:
Robbi's fine cooking and the order she keeps in the crazy household. Apart from the shoes. No-one can keep them in order, but it gives the cat a feeling of security.
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