Tuesday

The forecast is for bad weather but so far we have not seen any and we woke to another lovely sunny morning.

Always a busy morning on a Tuesday as I go out to my class at 9.00.

The traffic was particularly bad this morning going down the hill into Tauranga and eventually I saw why. A man on a scooter had been knocked off by a car and everyone was watching as they went past even though it was all pulled to the side and nothing much to see. The guy was taken to hospital but is not badly injured.

I got to my class and paid for my next ten classes. The last lot I paid for I didn't think I would use them all and now here we are paying for another lot of ten - funny old life.

The class was very good and we had to have all the doors open as it was so warm. We did lots of work holding a ball with both hands to strengthen our core - I think it did more damage to our arms!!

I stayed for a coffee and a chat and then left to go home.

I stopped at the supermarket to buy some coconut oil as I am told it is very good and you can use it for just about anything frying, roasting, baking use it on bread as a spread and it is very low in pretty much everything. It looks like lard but not so dense and has a slight coconut flavour so I will give it a go.

I must say I am not good at allocating my time when I have too much of it and work better under pressure not that I have much of that so once home and after walking Totty which took forever as she was in one of her 'I'm not going to walk' moods today, I read my magazine and looked at the recipes and generally didn't do very much and before I knew it was lunch time!!

I left to meet Carol for a cuppa down at the Mount main beach before my aqua class.

We were able to sit outside in the sun and it was lovely and warm and we had a catch up.

I then went to my class and as the sun is now low in the sky it is always behind the Mount and the pool in the shade at this time of year so today with a cold wind blowing it was very cold getting into the pool so for the first half of the class we didn't lift our arms out of the water but we did soon warm up.

After the class I had a swim just to put off getting out of the warm pool and waking to the changing rooms!

I drove home and had a cup of mint tea and fed Totty.

Jon came home and I started to cook the dinner.

After dinner we watched a bit of TV and then read my book.

I am putting off ringing my neighbour Rene as I know she is going to be upset that we are not coming home. I keep waiting for news from Kirsty so that at least I can soften the blow and tell her I will be home for a few weeks to see her. I am being a coward!!


WEATHER
Sunny spells with some cloud and wind 18 degrees