A trip to Emba

We were going down to Emba quite early this morning because we were going to see mum and doing some bits and pieces for her and we needed to go and do a bit of shopping and go to the butchers and we were also dropping our neighbours off at the garage that is sorting out their car.  This was a view that you don't often see - a mature olive tree being transported!!!  Apparently this is one of the few trees that can be moved successfully so no idea where this one was going but wherever it had been previously it had been there a very long time.

We had our regular weekly trip to the butchers - we didn't want much today but it is always a pleasure to see Naz because you can look like a bag of spanners and he always makes you feel a million dollars!!!  I am cooking tomorrow for Lakis and Argy's wedding anniversary - they will have been married 49 years god bless them and I am doing a curry so I was off to get some nice chicken to make it.

We had a successful shopping trip for once - particularly with regard to Lidl.  Mum usually brings up the weekly flyer and we earmark a few things and then go down to buy them and they would rarely have what we wanted.  Anyway we were in search of some replacement garden umbrellas having lost two in the tornado and they had some which were rectangular and very reasonably priced and one will fit exactly where we wanted it to go.

We also managed to get my new crafting desk into Kenny (with the seats down) and bring it back and put it into place.  It will give me somewhere to do some admin and some craft when I want to.  It fits perfectly into the space - I need to get a chair but there is no rush.  If nothing else it will provide some welcome storage.  To the left where there is a basket for the cat towels we are going to put a couple of Ikea shoe storage boxes in an attempt to get John to stop leaving his footwear all over the place.

This afternoon we called round to see Das because he has his mother over from the UK staying with him and Belinda for a week.  As I have my Brownie Badge for Dealing with Old Folk I was an obvious choice to go and say hello!!!  Anyway we stayed and had a coffee and a chat and then we called round to have a chat with Lakis and Argy before we returned home to wait for our chilli to warm through for our evening meal.

It was a glorious evening so we sat outside and had a little drinkie before going in and eating.  We were joined by the cats and it really was lovely - the garden is looking amazing even if I do say so myself.  I head from my sister to say that she was about to book to return in December which is good news - we will be having an early Christmas like we did last year and Mum is very excited.