Saturday

Lots of wind through the night and once again I woke worried as to how the house could withstand all this wind but it did, again!!

We had breakfast and then sat reading the newspaper online - I read the Mail and Jon reads the Times!!

We went out for coffee and decided, due to the weather, not to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival as it looked too wet and windy. The festival did go ahead but I am past standing in rain and wind to enjoy things. I will go up to Greerton and take photos next week of the cherry blossom!

One of our bedroom lamps has broken and so we went back to the shop today to ask if it could be repaired!!! Silly question!!! It costs more to repair than buy new ones. So, we bought the new ones.

We then went down to the Mount and a travel agent to get a brochure on The Cook Islands as we are planning a trip there for Christmas.

On the way home we went to Nosh and bought some meat and enjoyed a few samples of dips and cheese - I love that shop!

Back home we decided we had enough time to take Totty out before the heavy rain clouds reached us - we just made it back in time!!

The rest of the day, after I had made lunch, was spent reading and chatting about the Cook Islands. It looks so nice. We hope to have three nights in Aitutaki and then four nights in Rarotonga. It is very hard to think about as they are 'the day before' so getting dates sorted is difficult but I will leave it to the agent. I have told him where we want to go and I will let him sort out the details.

After the disappointment of not being able to get to the UK it has given me something to look forward to.

I cooked dinner and we then watched some TV.

Our clocks change tonight so we lose an hour so I really should get to bed now.

Hopefully this wind will have died down tomorrow.

WEATHER
Sunny, cloudy, windy, wet 19 degrees!