No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

Morning everyone :-)

Hello there lucielle - I'm in North Island and we love it here. But yes, sons are not always the most communicative are they? We had some family out to stay a few weeks ago and their Auntie was asking me if they'd arrived OK they hadn't been in contact!

Candlelight - sorry for throwing you off! Long weekends can be a bit distruptive (though they are wonderful :-) ) Slug patrol (in the the rain) netted a huge quantity last night - and HUGE ones too - they must have been feasting Chez Hoglet for a long time....

FTM - much love, hope those viruses are well on their way out

Chicks at the Flicks movie night tonight - hoping for a better goodie bag! My cousin has been ill so I'm not sure if she'll make it out to the movies tonight. DH has a stinking cold too - I am trying to not to catch it but it may be a bit inevitable.

A busy weekend for us - 2 family gatherings, one on Friday and one on Sunday. Need to come up with a birthday present for the Sunday one (I have NO inspiration) and some food for both. Maybe on Saturday I'll get some gardening done, if this rain EVER stops!!

Right, sorry must dash, work to do!

Love to you all,

Hoglet x

FTM many,many congratulations to Andrea and her husband, how wonderful. You will be in your element now won't you TWINS, I expect the girls will be excited as well.

Has Fionna had her results yet? I hope everything is OK.

I have a friend and her granddaughter coming for lunch today, so we are having spaghetti with a tomato and herb sauce and garlic bread., and cheesecake for afters.

Himself still isn't quite right yet, but I am much better now thank goodness. I was talking to one of my best friends last night and she has had it for 4 weeks as well, so whatever virus it is and wherever it has come from, it is nasty. I am going to see her tomorrow afternoon because it is her birthday next week.

Take care all

Candlelightx

Morning everyone,

FTM - what wonderful news, both about the twins and Fionna. Many congratulatios to everyone :-)

Candlelight - that sounds like a lovely lunch, I hope Himself is well on the mend.

We had a big storm 2 nights ago, garden is miraculously in one piece still - I've never heard wind and rain like it. During the storm we also acquired a bright pink plastic bucket, although whether that was brought to us by the wind or Alfie, I couldn't say...

We are off out to a fireworks display tonight. Here in NZ fireworks can only be sold to the public for 5 days prior to 5th Nov, but it doesn't seem to stop them going off randomly for a long time afterwards.

After being pet-less for a few months (and for the first time in about 35 years) my parents are adopting 2 cats this weekend. I'm so excited, I can't wait to see them on Skype. They weren't sure about getting 2 but the adoption place put them together in the same pen for a week or so, and the results have been positive, so the cats arrive on Saturday. They're both about 8 months old, so just a little younger than Alfie. It'll be good for them to have pets again, I think they've felt quite lonely without them. Their last dog and cat both passed away within a month or so of each other this year and it hit them quite hard to lose them so close together.

Sunday we'll be celebrating my cousin's birthday with a BBQ - got the present sorted mostly but need something 'fun' to go with it - got her practical things for the kitchen and her crafting - and whilst I think she'll like them they don't exactly shout celebration. Either that or I'll do some baking maybe? I'll have a hunt around today, shops here often have 3 day sales that include the weekend, so it's a bit pointless shopping during the week. Foodwise I'm doing homemade garlic bread (garlic bread at a BBQ is very much a kiwi thing - yes they cook it on the BBQ itself) and a vegetable stuffed loaf a la James Martin. Need to do something else but not sure what yet. Also not sure of numbers which doesn't help! They texted us last night asking if we'd help them do some whole fish too (product of a boys' fishing trip), that's no problem and snapper and trevally on the barbie are delish!

Right, I suppose I'd better get on and do some work.....

Love to you all

Hoglet x

Hi Candlelight

Yes we are 'supposedly' in spring, but it must be the wettest spring in a very long time! Good for the garden but the plants need sunshine now, they're supposed to be growing!

The new cats are called Jess and Scooby, although whether those names stay I don't know yet. Jess is a tortie with a big white bib and Scooby is black and white, and looks a lot like our Socks (I think so anyway - the photo they sent me was taken from quite an odd angle). From what I've seen Jess's name seems to suit her, but Scooby doesn't strike me as a good name for a girl... I guess they'll get a good feel for a name once they're with them.

So glad you had a good lunch, and I bet Flora loves the new chair :-)

Love Hoglet x

Abbie the tabby - I love it!

Our Socks kept her name as she obviously knew it, Shady became Izzy and Alfie just arrived so we had nothing to go off there.