Mike and I are still coming across reminders of our
wonderful birthday party with boxes of empty bottles to go to the dechete,
forks in the wrong place and the bed linen all washed and ironed on the beds
waiting for a rainy day to keep us indoors to catch up with such tasks. I have been putting the pictures in one file
and just love this pic of our terrace full up with tables chairs and people
chilling, what a wonderful treat to have had this time together to fill our place up and give it purpose, albeit for a short time
With all talk of family and fun I did want to tell you
about Mike’s family gathering going on alongside my family gang. Geoff came over for a full week and we had a
moment when cousins, son and brothers were for a poignant moment all around the
same table. Chris had never met his Dad’s
first cousins Colin and Jill and we were not sure how long it had been since Geoff
and Colin had seen each other but there was talk of it being thirty odd years
so a good opportunity to catch up and know that we have family who are friends
and we should never let doable kilometres come between us and take every
opportunity to say hello.
The Pumpkin contest is underway. Pumpkins are growing well
but there is an element of sabotage and misbehaviour as one of the competitors
planted this bomb detonator in our patch and another competitor has laid a mine
field around his patch, so it is hotting up.
Mike and I thought we were well in the winning zone until we went to Graham
and Ann’s for dinner to find his pumpkin the size of a Cinderella coach already
We had two nights out on the Razzel comparing progress
and generally being unruly but with this fantastic weather of balmy nights and
warm winds, why not sit out with your mates even if they are all out to scupper
your chances of winning the pumping of the year contest
And finally the harvest is starting and I am busy
blanching and baking to build our stores for winter, it is so wholesome and
grounding and makes me want to squirrel away as much as possible before the
season is once again…all over
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