Friday

Well, it was overcast but not raining this morning, and not too hot so it looked like, and was, another great day here at La timers. Not too hot; not too cold - although M, who does feel the cold, mentioned this evening that she had seriously contemplated putting on thermals before coming out to FamilyNFriends dinner. It was the usual Sunday crowd for dinner this evening - taking advantage of the "two-for-one" deal at Food Fantasy at The Big House. And even though I thought it was crowded this evening, A who had come last week with her work for their festive season celebrations, assured us there was a massive line-up then. We were therefore even more grateful to M that she had Come in early to line up, pay and secure a table for us all (thanks M).

I was also grateful that Friday is the end of the working week for me - and what a long week it has been. We are two people down in our section (three from this afternoon) and the heavy end-of-year workload and Iack of help are starting to wear thin. But it's only a couple of weeks until the Xmas break now - which is definitely something I'm looking forward to.

M beat me to the ROM today- and even though she did it on a higher setting (so there's still plenty to do), it looks great. I'm amazed she managed to find a window where it was dry enough to do it, but, then again, it may not have rained as much at Latimers as it did on other parts of the Coast.

It's full moon tonight or would be if you could see it through the cloud haze. But it's not raining now - and wasn't on the way home from The Big House - early enough so we could see Xmas lights along the Way. S and M watched a special on "exterior-illumination" (aka Christmas lights) the other evening and are now keen to see it in the wild. M even mentioned there is a place in Brisbane which does a good show, so that might be in our future - and speaking of future - there's a dance on tomorrow night which might be worth a visit - especially since I can't use my tax as an excuse this time - although it may still be raining - it does look like it's settled in for a while. If it's still raining in the morning, that will make a lovely, gentle start to the weekend.

Beazley has to go back to the vet next Monday for more testing and it will be interesting to see what his blood glucose levels are and whether they will take him off the insulin completely - otherwise, if they drop his dose again, he will be on only half a unit morning and night - which will be incredibly difficult to measure out in the current syringes - unless they do it by making it one unit morning or night.(D'oh!)