A beautiful day

We all had a nice lie in this morning which made us late for getting on with what we had to!

However, we got Tot out for her walk and then went out for coffee to the O Zone and enjoyed a very good apricot muffin.

It was then on to the bakers for bread and Farmer Jones for some lamb shanks for dinner.

We then headed out to the library to return some books and then on to the supermarket.

We got back in time for lunch and heated the pizza I had bought for Heather.

We did intend to go out to Looking Glass Gardens but Jon and Heather had a bit of a fall out. Such a silly thing but she really was quite rude to him and he got upset about it and so went down to wash the car. I did speak to her about it but she was unrepentant and would not apologise. I would like to be around to see what she is like when she is older and how much patience her children have with her. Whatever happened to patience????

Well the long and the short of it was she decided she didn't want to come out and so Jon and I went out on our own to McLaren Falls and fed the ducks and walked around the lake. I love having Heather here with us but she has made life quite difficult for us. Whereas we would just go out and drive and see what we could find Heather needs to have 'somewhere' to go. Unfortunately, here in NZ life is pretty boring for young people and there aren't the theme parks and things to see and the main thing is walking and 'seeing'. Our lives have changed a lot since she arrived and we feel we just can't head off and do our own thing, play golf, walk etc. And that is fine but when she is so rude to Jon it makes me cross.

When we got back she was out and I got on with cooking the dinner. She came back and after some retail therapy was fine.

Dinner was good but the lamb shanks a bit tough. Jane phoned to speak to Heather just before dinner so that cheered Heather up.

Hopefully, we will get to Looking Glass Gardens tomorrow as I am told they have a lovely display of daffodils.

WEATHER
Bright sunshine all day 15 degrees