Friday Fun

Yesterday dear readers of Wear and Dao the blog was another day that started sunny and became showery later. Before all that an oxygen nurse was awaited at about 11a.m to check the breathing problems of your old breathless blogger. Prior to that he called into the Stanhope Travel Agents in search of winter holidays. As it turned out the first choice of Tavira via Faro was eliminated due to travel restrictions to Portugal and Spain to visit Santiago de Compostela also!

This left Albania, Cyprus and Greece as main choices for warm weather winter holidays  ... and Greece the favourite since your old adventurous blogging friend visited there many times: Corfu, Athens, and Crete for example, not to mention Santorini with its black volcanic Sandy beaches and Ios famous for its naturist beaches, halfway to Crete. So which would you choose dear readers?  Crete appeals to your blogger whilst his kind caring friend prefers not to change flights, though finds the hotel accommodation not to her taste even though a direct flight sounds preferable.

A light lunch of cheese on toast was taken with the imminent  arrival of the specialist nurse on the cards . After being pronounced as good as expected and a further appointment being made to check oxygen requirements we decided to visit the vodaphone store in an attempt to keep up to date with the younger generation and be able to do face to face calls with friends and family .......maybe !

Then to a local school to mix with an even younger generation and pick up grandchildren to take them out for a promised supper . Yet more face to face contact dear readers and a pleasure to see the excitment at greeting us.
Rise at Barnard Castle was the agreed venue for supper , the old blogger and younger child having cheesy tomatoe pizza and the grandmother and older child sharing a rather large sandwich with accompaniments.  No meal at Rise would be complete of course without one of their many types of pastry , chocolate and raspberry tart and lemon tarts being chosen.

Then back to the childrens' home for further babysitting which saw your old blogger assisting with a 3D jigsaw; who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks !

Tomorrow dear readers, Bill the philosopher and Alan founder member of A Place to Be plus maybe Peter another founder member and teacher of Mindfulness making 5 for lunch (vegetarian chick pea curry and rice) which is nice for a sunny Sunday ... philosophers all round exploring the Nature of Reality and the Meaning of Life and enjoying a delicious nutritious lunch.