Thursday

We are definitely into Autumn now. lovely day here again but at 5 pm the high cloud is appearing. It's been a really quiet week while Penny has been at work. I did however pop out to the treatment plant where my ex boss is leaving the job to take up some grandiose post in Australia, managing their Eastern Native forests. So I did have some contact with the world and of course yesterday evening we had our local home group which is always good value. Earl grey has been quiet this week, not helping me with the gardening like he used to. Must be age or he's seen me do it before and can't understand why I have to do it again. Had to borrow a de-soldering tool from work to allow me to change a couple of controllers around which I had stuffed up on my project. alas no luck though. i think the capacitors didnt like the reverse volts. I'll try replacing them and if that doesnt work, looks like the bin!

Anyway, couldn't help but empathise with Nicola on her blog. I left Watercare after almost exactly 20 years. Needn't have retired, didn't have any new career or project, so it was a straight loss of a very good income (By NZ standards). However I think it was the right thing to have done. I was marking time, my vehicle had ground to a halt. no I havent suddenly produced umpteen paintings, done a huge amount of craft, changed the house around or anything really, none of the offers of work which seemed so likely before have come to anything, but I have moved on. And so has Paula. Doesn't seem like a year and she can already speak Stryne and has an pet lizard! Devon and Ella have moved on too. Good move. Keep it up Girls!!