Thelma and Louise.

Meg wasn't very well at work last night, so Cathy sent her home early with a piece of chocolate cake and instructions to snuggle up and keep warm. This morning she said to take the time to recover and she would see Meg on Tuesday (she's on sick pay). Meg did relax for most of the day and after my run - yes, run - I said we would go over to Ali's mum to return her Sari and give her some flowers as Meg said they were moving to a new house this weekend. I wanted to get it back to her before I didn't know where they had gone. Have to say, Meg and Ali cut quite a dash in the go-cart. Ali is 15 and has got her learners licence, so was competent in the cart. Meg had a shot and they came back exilerhated and laughing. Meg is staying for dinner and Finn has decided to stay the night at John's.

The Japonica is coming into bloom in the warm sunshine. The heavy rain over the last 2 days brought very heavy, but loose snow up at the slopes and we could hear blasting up at Treble Cone all morning as they got rid of the build up.

I asked Meg today what she thought she would miss most when she came home. The summer, she said. Everyone will go straight from school to the wharf and jump in. And then they will all go to New World in their bare feet. She likes that. (I like seeing snowboarders walking through town in their bare feet, with their boards under their arm.) And she loves the skateboarders who use their boards to travel through the town and their dogs to pull them up the hills. (I like that too.)

Ali's mum and dad have bought one of our favourite houses just up the road from here. A long, low shed type building with stone work incorporated, a balcony and looks over a very small, neat vineyard. She said (Celia) the vineyard should give them 360 bottles of Pinot Noir a year. It doesn't come much neater than that (well, 720 bottles would be quite good.) I'm going to give them a wee hand to move on Monday after work, and I'll get a look around. Was definately something wee thought would be great to build at home, if ever Planning Dept would approve of living in a shed/house.

grateful for:

sitting outside having morning tea, drawing, and then still being there to have morning coffee with Spook when he called in from work.