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| Hibiscus to the fore with bouganvillea still flowering. |
Unfortunately I picked up a cold from the trip to Riyadh which must have been from the air con and travel in general. Not something that has happened to me much despite all of the travel that I have done over the years but when it does you can be sure I have shared it with everyone that gets too near. Consequently as Lillian is the closest guess what ….. she too has a cold!
So a weekend lazing apart from a trip to the pub to watch England v New Zealand rugby. I was sorely tempted to send SMS messages to all of our Kiwi friends when England went into the lead int he second half/ It was good job I didn't as true to form NZ whopped England in the last 20 minutes to be convincing winners. It has not been a good week for England sport with two defeats for the soccer team and having risen at 0430 this morning to watch Ashes cricket I wish I hadn't sat through England being bowled out for 136!
Monday was bowls. It seems a long time since I had played. I was to be disappointed that nobody mentioned the fact that i had a new bowls bag, but why should they? I certainly wouldn't have noticed anyone else's. As usual two games, the first of which was interrupted by a sharp shower of rain for 5 minutes. Whilst it has not been the first fall it has been the first that we have actually seen. Everyone huddled under shelters and moaned …… goodness it was still 75F! Lillian and I did not play on the same mats for any of the two games but I think for the first time we were both winners for both matches!
The garden continues to take time picking leaves and general trimming, a morning spent trimming the ficus hedge so that it keeps its 'flat top'. The hibiscus are doing really well and we have never had some many flowers all at once. There was a time in the summer we though they were in a drastic collapse as leaves were turning yellow and dropping daily but now they look a picture.
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