Sunday, after church I had coffee in the church hall and bought a few jars of homemade jam. As I walked back to the car a breeze came up and started blowing Autumn leaves around. They are a problem for gardeners and streetsweepers I guess, but I don't mind them. In fact I like them as a visible reminder of the change of seasons.
Tuesday 11th May
Croquet on Tuesday afternoon this week must have been a record for this year. We had 18 people playing today, the most for quite a while. As usual I played a very mediocre game in the first round, then after the coffee break I improved a bit.
You could say more or less the same about the Quiz Night too. We kept up a reasonable standard through most of the rounds (aside from only scoring four points in Pot Luck) and ended up in a tie for third with 82 points among the nine teams playing. The winners powered home with a startling 97 points, the sort of score you get across the river.
Recently I was asked to lunch at Edith's place, a function attended by about twenty people to celebrate Gill's birthday. I was not expecting to find myself the centre of attention, but that's what happened when I disappeared in the middle of the meal.
I went to stand up, pushing my chair backwards. What I didn't notice was that the rear legs got caught on the carpet and when I went to step back I vanished under the table -- still seated in the chair but horizontal rather than vertical. Fortunately Alistair was at the next table and quickly helped me to my feet, but I spent the next hour reassuring other guests that I hadn't been hurt. (And since this was a Presbyterian function, I had had nothing stronger than orange juice!)
Keith Curtis has longer legs than I do, so I was a few minutes behind him when we went into the Salvation Army store. He was standing by the DVD shelf and said "Do you want these?", handing me the entire four seasons of BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES, both seasons of BATMAN BEYOND and the first two seasons of SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES. Whoo ! (Now to find season 3 of BATMAN BEYOND, SEASON 3 of SUPERMAN.)
Wednesday 18th May
That was a bit tiring. I started out the day doing a pratfall when I walked out the back door to greet a friend who was bringing over some hay. Not concentrating on where my feet were going, I sat down hard on my backside. But, as they say in the classics, nothing was damaged but my dignity.
Then drove to Sandy Bay and back for the afternoon Bible study, taking care to choose a nice well-padded armchair.
In the evening I was invited next door for a seafood dinner and the screening of ANNA KARENINA starring Keira Knightey. Salmon with Pink Eye potatoes and home-grown tomatoes. The DVD looked spectacular, but two hours of Tolstoy left me a bit overwhelmed (maybe if would have been more comprehensible if I'd had the courage to ask them to turn on the captions).
Thursday 19th May
I felt really tired and sluggish this morning. No breakfast as I had to fast before my quarterly blood test. While I was serving up toast and coffee afterwards, Keith phoned to ask me to lunch and a trip to the Salvation Army store; fortunately I had time for two cups of coffee before I had to meet him. And by a turn of good luck it was discount day for Senior Citizens at the Salvo store. I think both of us easily qualified.
2009 haiku to his EFTPOS card:
Those glowing letters
bring an end to your shopping
"Insufficient Funds."
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