Monday 29 February – Wet Day in Taupo

I woke early after a fitful night with Maori place names running through my head in a jumble of letters.  It was dull and overcast with rain in the air.  A day at home today to take stock and catch up a bit.  The blog was probably my first priority as we had had such a full on weekend travelling over to the East Coast, I hardly had time to make notes.  Leigh will probably go over it with corrections in her teacherly fashion… the ole buzzard!

Some washing to be done…. just a few things by hand to hang out under the verandah.

I spent the afternoon, while Leigh was at a conference, doing another pastel of Lisa, Linda’s cat…. not sure if is much of an improvement on the last one though….bit cross-eyed lookingimage

It rained heavily during the afternoon and was quite a bit cooler than recently.  I just relaxed and listened to my new talking book, ‘A Man Called Ove’ and was dozing when I heard Leigh call out that dinner was ready – my goodness she was back and it was 7 o’clock already.

During the evening with both Shonney and Sally on my lap, Leigh helped me sort out the spellings of Maori place names.

imageThe dull, wet day ended with a most beautiful sunset.

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