Why we were dancing at work this morning.

Italy  1                        New Zealand  1
5th in the world     78th in the world
       Need I say more, No I don't think so.

I hate it when I have money to spend and nothing to show for it.

The Enid Blyton has lovely illustrations, printed 1968 and dear old Noddy and  a lovely wee dish of a winter's scene. That's all from the weekend.

Things are so desperate I have to show my breakfast, but I'm obsessed with New World's cheese bread, a bargain at $1.99 a loaf, with Vegebite, I love this stuff, took ages before I bought any and now I guard it with my life, Baz has developed a liking for it, which wont do at all. Sad sack that I am I have the same breakfast every morning, note breakfast at computer table, Lord I'm letting you see some of my bad habits.

I've not mentioned the World Cup, Baz wakes me up every morning when he comes to bed, and tells me the scores, I'm not staying up to 2am to watch the matches as some of my colleagues are doing. We keep track of the results at work, and we have been happy "kiwis" with the first ever New Zealand pt. at a World Cup. But tomorrow will be the big game Italy, I shall be praying for a miracle, and hoping for a draw or a not too humilating defeat. I shall go to bed now as I have had a busy weekend with my taxi service booked up by the "men". Love Aunt Bee.

Gee what an impressive pier.

The very impressive New Brighton pier. Really? No just joking, it's the out-fall pipe, but it looks good with the tide out.No this isn't the right photo will try again.No, it's not in this one either.O.K. I give up, if you squint at the two above photos you might just make out the pier, it's a huge concrete thing, but as I never walk that way you may never see it. I never walk that way, because there is to many people down that way and charming, friendly person that I am, I prefer the less crowded part of the beach.Chris and husband TH, bought around 2 bookcases, one for the lounge which I quickly took ownship of and filled with some of my books and mags. Not my cookbooks or my craft mags or most of my "house' mags, though they are still in the big old bookcase I heard a sigh of relief when I gave them more room to relax. I wondered aloud whether I should paint it white, Aj screamed in horror "NO", what fabric is to me, wood is to Aj. As he is making me a coffee table with glass top, which I will be able to open up as a display space, I gave in and said I wouldn't paint it. Have managed to get him to paint the coffee table though. Although  it is a small victory it is a victory none the less. The other bookcase is in Tom's room containing his growing number of books, no photos  he said, he needs some privacy, in other words his room was to messy to photo.These are the crochet circles I started in Summer, they had an unfortunate experience at my hands and as I couldn't bear to undo them, I'm making something like cushions or maybe a small rug, I don't like to plan these things, I'm more the free-wheeling creative type or I could be the oops that's a mistake I'll have to fix somehow and pretend it was what I intended all along type.That's it for now, it's freezing and I'm going to cook a curry for dinner, something to warm up our insides, because our outsides are very cold. Love Aunt Bee.

A bit like a jumble sale a bit of everything.

It must have been a very cold miserable Sunday for you to reorganise the kitchen Bee? Yes it was, of course it doesn't look as tidy down.I have a growing obsession with "talking books", I have" Miss Read's retirement", book in the car at the moment, no jabbering DJ's blathering on in the morning for me, no I have the beautiful voice of Sian Phillips accompanying me to work in the morning.New bag a WIP , thinking I'll plait the handles or just use it for the button loop. Still thinking about it.Lovely jug as mentioned in previous post.Aj said I should stop showing beach scenes and show a photo of me and my winter woolies including very embarrassing  hat (fat chance).Came in from work at 3.45pm, made this lovely smelling date loaf, as it's Thursday and a very sports training orientated night, this should tide people over till dinner time, which will be at 9.20pm or thereabouts. It's very cold here and the frost this morning was a "goody ",with me very gingerly walking down the deck steps hanging on for dear life. At least it's stopped raining, we haven't had the flooding that the south has had, and with the cold weather comes the beautiful sight of the Southern Alps covered with snow.I shall try to get a few photos on the weekend. Love Aunt Bee.

****** computer

No photos although I have heaps, because the computer is playing up, God I hate it. So nothing to show you,  have had a very busy 2 weeks and I'm enjoying my long weekend. It's not my long weekend, it's the Queen's, her Birthday Weekend. Went to the market yesterday and saw a lovely Beswick jug, which I bought for $5.00 and as the lady hunted for a bag for me to put it in, a woman standing beside me said, " My sister had a set of those jugs, she had all three, and the lady on the stall said "Beswick dear, she had a set?  "Oh yes " said the lady, "Not just that pattern but lots of others". I said how lovely and the lady said "She had lots of lovely china but she never married you know".  I got the giggles and the lady manning the stall lifted her eyebrow, obviously she didn't need nice china if she was single or perhaps she collected china and at the expense of collecting a husband. I think it's time for computer to go to the Doctor so I don't know when I do another post, have tried using Tom's laptop but it's so confusing without a mouse, and weird settings or weird to me sometimes I think the Luddites were right and we should take notes from them, of course I wouldn't be writing this would I. Love Aunt Bee.

A normal Saturday, if there is a "normal" anything.

The beach this morning, beautiful but oh, so cold.I knew as I walked down the beach the "maori war canoe" had gone, it wasn't till I got to that end of the beach I saw it had been washed up in the sand dunes, it must have been a mighty big tide to push it that far or perhaps some humans have been mucking around on the beach ?I don't think that this just ended up on the beach exactly like this.Found this at the market, I wasn't sure I liked it, but I bought it. Think I have been influenced by my lastest copy of this.I'm beginning to love green.Big pyrex type bowl for baking, my big bowl has gone missing which usually means someone broke it and has hidden the evidence.A pretty flan dish and some books, the Noddies from the market and the rest from my favourite secondhand book shop.The last flowers in my garden, and the jug, excuse dead leaf, I think the hydrangas compliment the colour of the jug.

Winter is here, at last.

This photo is show the holly in the vase more than anything, the holly tree is in full bloom and looks beautiful, I risked life and limb to cut that small piece, so I hope your impressed.Date and walnut loaf I made Sunday, note lovely fresh walnuts and baked loaf, the walnuts are there only for decoration, I forgot to put them in the loaf while making it.

A quick post, I have a cold, unusually for she who dosen't get these things, but a cold non the less. We all have had colds and flu and it is appropriate as the weather has changed. Its been raining and cold since the weekend and we have had the most amazing cloud formations roll over for the last 3 days, a hint of snow down to 300 metres on Friday, wow, everyone at work is thinking maybe "snow day" this year. We are sad people obviously, hoping for a day off week because of snow.