Social life, yay!

So, my former colleague, Cathy, came over today. She brought me an industrial amount of cherry pits - I think I'll be able to make as many as six pillows from this heap - and a box full of candy wrappings: small, rectangular pieces of tinfoil in various colours. Those will be rolled into small, tissue-paper lined balls and made into Christmas garlands. Crafty times are heating up over here.

Other than that, I went to do the grocery shopping today. Fell into the reduced price trap again. But now I have raw material for making Mary Berry's Panang Chicken Rice tomorrow or the day after: a nice, easy stir-fry that will last at least two days. Three if I'm lucky. *fingers crossed*

The bug guy came and told us that they'll continue doing private flats, after all. That's good news. I'm not sure I could do an adequate job myself, and besides, we like the guy.

I also talked to my friend Evie today. School has started - for the teachers - on Monday, and they were greeted with the good news that both the repairman and basically all cleaning ladies had quit. So my poor ex-colleagues have been cleaning the classrooms, washing the curtains and the likes between long, boring, totally unnecessary conferences. God, am I grateful for being retired!