Fishing (not) and sleeping in church

Yesterday afternoon we drove to the docks and threw melba toast (a free offering from Victoria’s) at the fish. Some surprisingly big ones so close to shore. Probably an ideal fishing spot if you throw bread to the scavenger fish to draw them away from the real bait…although if you can’t stand the idea of cutting open a warm fish and removing its guts, and lopping of its head, then fishing is not really a good idea at all.

Church last night was a bit strange in the schoolroom. Nick was completely put off by everyone constantly looking at the clouds of steam billowing in the main church building, emanating from the urn. He wanted to say “it’s just the urn, stop looking at it”, but I guess, like me, people were wondering if perhaps something should be done about it. Caleb fell asleep in an upright position and it was quite funny. He was breathing heavily, nigh unto snoring. We laughed this morning when he complained that he couldn’t sleep in church last night because it was the wrong chair! He had absolutely no recollection of the evening.

I don’t have much to say about today. We got paid today, yippee. Grocery shopping tomorrow, sort of yippee. Let’s see, um, I cut Nick’s hair today, down to a #4 all over. Um, Caleb accidentally poked Aaron in the gum with a sharp stick and made it bleed. We made Indian hats during the afternoon (see photo). I had cheese, tomato, gherkin and mayonnaise on brown bread today for lunch and it was delicious and very healthy. I’ve been reading an Essentials magazine about the new GL diet (not GI), and it lists all the things you’re supposed to eat and not supposed to eat. The premise is that high-carb foods give you a sugar-rush and leave you feeling hungry soon after so you keep eating, whereas the proper stuff is more lasting. Pity that most of the things are not readily available here, but I’m sure I can find substitutes. White bread is definitely out (this we have known for decades), but I’m really trying to get us eating more healthily, so we’ll cut that out. We’re supposed to have baby or new potatoes, but short of growing them myself I don’t think we can get those.