Saturday

It is nice to have a little lie in at the weekends - I could do it everyday but that might be a slippery slope! It was so warm this morning Jon had his breakfast out on the deck.


After breakfast we took Totty to the park and tried to tire her out a bit by throwing the ball for her, it seemed to work.

We went over to the garden centre in Welcome Bay and had a lovely coffee and a lemon and raisin muffin which was very nice. We then bought a lovely house plant and a plant to go in a pot to disguise the side path "blockage" (two wooden gates) to stop Totty getting out. It is a lovely garden centre and they had a "pumpkin" display on! I asked the assistant what they have for Halloween and she told me they don't really celebrate it. It was very strange seeing pumpkins in April!

We then went to find the Buddhist Centre for the Thai New Year celebrations but couldn't find it so we went to Fraser Cove Shopping Centre instead. We spent ages in the "Warehouse" which is a huge superstore that sells everything BUT we couldn't find a pot for our houseplant! But we did buy some secateurs and a huge plastic bucket to put the clippings from the vine in.

We spent so long looking at the shops it was past lunchtime so we stayed in the shopping centre and had some lunch - a very nice bacon, mushroom and tomato quiche with some salad and Jon had a panini..

When we got back we attacked the vine which has a bumper crop of grapes but they are very perfumed and not nice to eat. We should have picked them weeks ago and thrown them away as they are now fermenting and the back of the house smells like a winery! With two of us working at it it really didn't take very long and we had it all trimmed back and looking tidy. Not being experts at pruning vines we are not sure if it will have any fruit on next year but we don't mind if it doesn't cos they aren't nice anyway. We just need to take all the clippings to the tip tomorrow.

After a cup of tea it was time to take Totty for her walk and we went over to Welcome Bay Reserve, we haven't been over there for a few weeks. It was really nice over there and I saw some eels swimming in one of the streams ugh!