Six Mad Weeks

The pedagogue's memoirs became a neat little A5 book small enough 'to read in bed' -  the most important specification given. It was a bit of a journey with occasional instances of  'talking at cross-purposes'; long Skype editing sessions about commas and paragraphs; much laughter; printouts to both copy editor and indexer; where on the cover to put 'Music CD included'; a slight snafu with a 'generation X or Y' Melbourne print manager, and finally, it will be launched at the pedagogue's 'last' concert this weekend. It arrives with my best endeavours and should look just fine.
Exhausted after such an intensive, almost exclusive, time doing one thing I was pleased to go to Whanganui last Friday to view Leigh's new show. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcyvYN4ma-Wt99A6evWA0sNX9Dt_vElXl48hBCzEu3T2RN7iKfBEvIgmpHyCVvgxLodKkxPGzAGWKBDTAec-pKne1a4IF1WqlhiAjD6AtPZMvjM7Zlnb28bnDdUETxAtmwK06MpuxbKGk/s1600/Whimsy+Invite.jpg

It was great, really interestingly whimsical mono-print/collage pieces. I arrived late due to the generation X or Y print manager (see above), and she had already sold three pieces. She has another show opening next Friday 'the Folly of my Chinoiserie' at the Edith Gallery. Whanganui UCOL atrium, 16 Rutland Street, Whanganui. It is a quite different show using water colours to very beautiful effect.

I scraped the little car's left bumper in a car park a couple of weeks ago and decided to get it fixed since we, the car and me, had become quite good friends at last. This meant catching the train into town for two days. On a good day this adds three quarters of an hour to my journey to and from the city. On Tuesday morning because they are double-tracking the route between Paekakariki and Waikanae, and I missed the 8.27 bus to the station and decided to walk, and then just missed the 'transfer bus' to Paekakariki (because of the work on the tracks), it took me two and a half hours to get to town. The problem is that buses aren't scheduled from Raumati to Paraparaumu Station to meet the 9.05am train going in and the 7.30pm return train - I suspect this is because these are the first trains coming and going that pensioners can ride without charge using their Gold Cards. It is very frustrating. Little car has returned home all bright red, freshly painted and polished. I was very pleased to see it.