Saturday ramblings & body piercing

Yesterday we did some housework, went shopping, had visitors, went out for dinner and watched TV. So all in all a very relaxing day.

Dennis and I decided to have a quick "get out of the house go shopping" spree in the afternoon. We had Stuart and his son Paul here working on our roof. They stripped the roof off the patio so that they could replace the eaves, gutters and facia boards before putting it back. So at the moment we have lots of tarps on the patio and are hoping it wont' rain too much in the coming week because they won't be putting the roof back until next weekend. However the rest of the work is progressing well. By the end of today we should have all the gutters and downpipes replaced around the house. Tomorrow the tiler comes for the last time to fix the last bits of tiling and then Stuart will paint the roof in charcoal grey. With the gutters and eves and facias painted in a sort of creamy colour the house should look almost brand new!

Shortly after coming back from the shops Michael, Natalie, Haylee, Melissa and her friend Nicola joined us. There was a big nailpainting session in the kitchen. Even Michael had one fingernail painted! Melissa showed off her new earpiercing job with new ear-ring and told us that the ear is meant to swell up and that it will take 9 months for it to heal properly. That's because of the place in the ear where she decided to put the hole. Her friend told us that all this is an effort to be "different" from the millions of others who have their bodies pierced in all sorts of places. Apparently the trick is to find a spot that is not normally pierced to make it "unique". Now I wonder when it will dawn on our youth that to be really unique ...just don't have any piercing done at all! Maybe they will in time have an "untampered / unpierced" body award that you can only win if you never had any body piercing or tattoos?

Gerd and Ben also arrived - via bicycle. And we all went to dinner in Heidelberg at a Thai restaurant. Sort of celebrating the settlement of our house.

Unfortunately Mum was feeling ill yesterday and spent most of the afternoon, all of the night and all of this morning in bed. I just called and she is feeling a bit better. Hopefully it was a virus or bug.

Had an enjoyable Sunday morning at church. And I vaguely remember dobbing myself in to teach a group of young men how to cook potatoe pancakes. Part of teaching survival skills when they head off on their missions. This event will happen Tuesday night. I hope Mum is better by then so that she can come with me!