All is well ...

Thursday ... and joy of joys, the rain is here. It's not the big storm that had been predicted for this afternoon but it's much better in that it's a nice gentle rain with heavier bursts in between. There has been no hail and no destructive winds - so that makes it a win-win all-around. You can almost see the plants in the garden growing - and this means that they definitely won't need watering (by anyone here) today. And some of the produce is well and truly ready for eating (although some prefer playing with their food!).

The furries were close when I came home - Maggie and Beazley were still in bed - and, when finally I did find here as I had been expecting her to be in her usual wet-weather spot on the back of the couch - Tink was fast asleep on one of the chairs out the back. That made it very easy to give her her shot and she finally deigned to come in for her dinner almost half an hour later.

Pearl came with me to the car and sat in the back (far far away from the cats' dinners) as I changed the registration sticker on the car. This could very well be one of the first times when she hasn't been sick in a vehicle! She was a help too, keeping me focussed on the job and encouraging me to peel away all the sticky stuff from the old label and put the new one back in the same place, rather than taking the easy way out and putting the sticker on the back passenger-side quarter-glass.

S is still away, coaching her nephew in English for when he sits the HSC next week. I think one of the hardest bits for her has been that she hasn't been feeling 100% but she has still managed to give it her all! That "all" includes scribing for P - long hand - so that is a mammoth effort. Luckily, P is quite good at ... what is the word she used ... I don't think it was "dictation" but it was something like that. So they have been doing well. He has a study plan in place and part of the afternoon is devoted to English. Two of the set texts this year are Blade Runner and Frankenstein... not a bad double!