Swimming, swimming

Today has been a superb day, very relaxed and very together as a family. After prayer meeting this morning, Steve and Teddy came over to have a look at the problem of Nick’s leaking study ceiling. They fixed it while I was at the GNC. Nick played banjo with me, and then left after the music bit to go and help with the fixing. I was out in town to get a few thins, and walked up to Victoria’s, and bought another pillow for me (maybe it will help me sleep better) and a double fitted sheet for the guestroom bed. The pillow was £4.55. For that price, I hope it has anti-allergic and anti-aging properties, neck support, back support and emotional support. And it would be nice if it makes tea in the morning. The sheet, which I was excited to put on, was too small. What should I have expected for £5.10 when all the other double sheets were at least £9. I will have to return it – it is about 5 cm too narrow, but is clearly marked ‘double’ and the bed clearly is a double bed.

We didn’t have a particular plan for the afternoon, but ended up doing some cleaning up outside in the back yard – Nick burned some more garden rubbish and the section with all that junk is now almost ready to become a garden (just need some soil in it). I swept the paving and concrete, and rearranged the bench and chair, so it all looks good and tidy and clean. Very rewarding day, really! The boys played some imagination game with extra brooms and buckets about the guys with the bad commandments whose paper just says “blah blah”, and their good commandments, which were two barrels on top of one another. Confused? I couldn’t figure it out either, but they knew what the rules were and who wasn’t allowed to come past. Well, all that hard work made us hot and sweaty, so we went for a swim. That was really fun – the boys are both happy now to be thrown around in the water and go under and jump in and all sorts of exciting stuff. Caleb had a ball climbing out at the steps and then jumping in again. At one point one of his armbands came off and although he had no problem swimming without it, he really panicked! I had to quickly swim over to him to help him because I could see the lifeguards eyeing out the situation. The lifeguards are great though, Nick has become very friendly with them. One is nearly 60, but does 10 lengths in about 7 minutes, Nick says. Very sporty. He gave us some mango trees and roseapple trees which have been planted. This morning we were given four huge tuna fillets from a chap who we met on the ship coming over. We have also recently been given plums, some off Steve and Maureen’s tree in the country, and some others from someone in the Sandy Bay church. So after supper I cut some up and threw away the wormy ones and we all shared the rest. They are very small, some as small as 1.5 cm in diameter, and the biggest probably about 3 cm across.