Journal: Another Day of our Life in Hamilton

Yesterday we visited the new Countdown supermarket  near the Base shopping Centre, here in Hamilton, the largest in the the Waikato area. Small compared with the the UK, but big for little o'l NZ. Plenty of specials but no cheaper than our other normal Countdown uptown.

We called in at the New World Supermarket on our way back to get some loaves of bread, they make particularly nice bread.

Today we are staying home, rain is promised  the next 7 days, but the forecasters are not always right, today we are getting small showers and sunshine.

Did a few odd jobs this morning, firstly hung out a few bits of washing Pat run through in a cold wash last night and this morning, I put a few more pieces, towels etc to be run through in a hot wash. No good hanging them out on the line outside, the showers would get them, so I hung them on the portable clothes stand, pressed the garage roller door button, set the clothes stand in what sun was shining then left the through door into the laundry open and also the other laundry door to the outside open for a through draft to continue drying when the showers came.

Usually when I do this the doors bang shut with the stronger breeze gusts, but this morning I was smarter than the wind. Looking around the garage I spotted the heavy concrete Santa Claus gnome and propped against one door, that will do the trick I thought. We had brought him with us went we moved from Huntly. Now for the other door, I couldn't see any thing heavy enough. What to do I thought as I wandered around the garage tidying up. As I wandered int the laundry from the garage I put a loose plastic bucket out of harms way and I suddenly had a notion, the plastic bucket, fill it with water. That did the trick, heavier than Santa Claus!

This is the first day I have been feeling myself for quite a few weeks, 6 or more weeks since we began packing and and moving to our new home, before that, 2 trips to the hospital by ambulance, then 3 trips to the hospital as a day patient. I have been mainly feeling miserable and bad tempered. Pat has been very patient with me as she knew I did not want to move from Dudley Ave., we had been there for 43 years, it was a nice house and my den was the basement, the house was private and upstairs the views, lovely from most of the windows. Overlooking the lake was my favourite watching the wildlife.

 But today I feel much better, I do hope my cheerful mood continues, I hope I don't lapse back into the moody ways of the past. I have just added the weeks up, it is not weeks, it is months, 4 calender months.  In another 8 weeks it will be Spring. March 7th to July 7th. 7, is this an omen?