The arrival of Festivity month

Since last posting, I have had so much fun.

Firstly, the original purpose of this blog, my little garden is looking quite good.  The first little tomato fruits have appeared, despite a tearing Fish Hoek wind!  They look ever so cute - the size of little pearls.  Hopefully there will be loads, as I don't think that a handful of little pearls will suffice for a lunch :).

On Wednesday, we had the last of our photography course.  We looked at various photographs in terms of how they could be improved and then had demonstrations of how to use Picasa to enhance them.  I learnt a lot.  It was good fun.

Today we had our U3A monthly meeting.  As always, I enjoyed it.  There were two events.  The first was singing by the U3A women's choir, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  Their collection of songs was varied and appropriate.  They were all decked out in black and white with neat presentation.  It was a truly lovely event.  The second was the Cape Town U3A chamber ensemble.  Regrettably the PA system did them no favours, but they presented a lovely series of music.

Then, and this has to be the best part... I attended the Fish Hoek CID Awards.  I had nominated Copy Wizard for service excellence.  They received a runner up prize, and I received a lovely meal voucher for a meal at Barracuda's for partner and me.  I wonder if Bolle would like a nice piece of fillet - bleu, without any sauce :).

Actually, that was not the completely best part.  Since a child, I have always wanted to be a journalist - an aspiration which never came to pass for several reasons.  I landed up a Business Analyst in IT, which interestingly enough has the same Thomas profile as a journalist.  Whilst at the ceremony, I chatted with Garth King who is a journalist for the Fish Hoek Echo.  We've come up with a plan whereby I can submit periodical articles which would be relevant and applicable to the local Fish Hoek community.  I just need permission from the organisation concerned to implement it.  So... the little bits and pieces of activity which I have taken on in the past few months may culminate in a life's dream, however small it may be :).  I will be such a happy little chickadee if it comes to pass.

The two workshops which are planned for U3A for February and March of next year are starting to fill up.

And tomorrow, hopefully, I will get my lazy and quickly enlarging butt out of bed and back to hiking, just in time for some lovely festive socialising :).