Sounds good! None of the others joined you then? I will mail in amo after brekkie as it is free here!
Might phone to.T

Hail all.
good pic of the visit! i like juls two tier hair! huddling for warmth hey! we are raosting here in christchurch with a top temp of 32 degrees today! fairly roasting, and with a warm winf of about 100 miles and hr we were melting on the spot. we made the mistake of leaving the tent up (yes, we are on one of our brief visits to a camping!) and it got so bent over by the wind that on e of the poles broke. no more tent for the present.

Chch is huge and we have only done a small section of it today. the botanical gardens made a pleasent resting spot for our weary feet after town. we went to an art fair in the morning which was great fun. wondered round lots of wierd and bizzar art – canvas with splodge of paint, bit of wire stuck in an apple, that kind of thing, but most of it was great, and you could actruallt watch da said artist at work in the poting and woodcarving workshops. Potting looks as much of a sinch as i recall. The Dod collection would have fitted in like a piece of the jugsaw, and as there was nothing much beloww about 100 quide i think mireille had the pricing about right. it does seem that mounting and frames are the way to go, so kepp mounting i say! geoff suggested ikea for bulk frames. in an internat place at the mo with paintings on the wall by some aritist or other who obviously prefered the part of the scenery tecnique! well, only 10 days to go before xmas and it has never felt more unlike christmas! boiling hot and sunny, with everyone running round in skimpy clothes, yet all the shops have that tinny music dod described blaring out of their doors. all the same old tunes as at home, and the shops are full of the same things, trees, stockings, decorations, cakes, puddings and a whoile lot more stodgy wintery food to be eaten infront of a roaring fire all nice and cozy. who in their right mind wants a slab of christmas pudding when you can’t move without sweating??? oh well, have fun up north and take a few piccies for me. now making more appropriate new year card for delicately nurtured. i will take over my class black one when i get back you bunch of weasles!
cheers
T

I say that parking fine must have cut like a knife!!! Those cardssound slike a dead cert to me – keep churning them out. you could have a nice ‘set’ collection for next year. a small mistake with the price though – they should have been at least 1 pound 50 and then they would have gone towrds the fine!!! i will take over all arangements and the money will come rolling in i say!!! you could hang them in my pottery shop ‘glugs’ when i get one!!!
a bit of alright though i say. 150 of the best sounds about fine to me if they are in frames and with acompaniying story. a childrens books sounds like a good idea to me. a cheery story full of colourful pictures which will then sell like hot cakes! all in all most pleasing news. even if you havn’t exibited everywhere, if someone thinks you have then there must be something good about the paintings! i would have gone for the full weekend myself but i suppose you get a wider audience if you have them in one place for a while. good egg i say! i will try and phone tonight, that is my tonight with the new cheap phone card we have somehow only discivered now!!!! i find this most ditressing especially as i spent $20 on a card to phone granny and it lasted all of 3 mins! curse the person who sonld it to me for telling mwe it wasd the cheapest option!
cheersT

I don’t get that comment thingy. i tried to write sopmthing but it doesn’t appear to be working! did you exibit? well known in chi you say!!!!
what happened to the cards? did you do others? well, nice to talk and i will send mail soonest
T

i say yaya for love actually and will bne going to see it while geoff goes to see some bile about a sailor or something!!!!

yay, a fresh pusskin for me please! good old daisy was ok was she? i’ll give jul lessons when i get back – most amusing it will be!!! Did any of the other cards sell? how much for? mahaps cards are the way forward.
i rang granny at the time appointed by geoff the time maistro on her birthday only to hear a groggy voice on the other endof the phone!! poor granny – it was 5.30am!!!! she seemed pleased with the angora rabbit hat we got her in the waikato region.
i wanted to buy an ostrick egg today but geoff wasn’t too keen! they are huge and i thought they would be good fun to paint, but getting it home would be a problem. Thank you mama for your letter we collected in dunedin, i think the path is a great idea, get liv and jul to collect stoned for you. Hope all the xmas cards got home unbroken. hand them out at xmas would you? i didn’t want to send them as they were quiote fragile. i hope all the french ones got there ok – let me know. havn’t heard from lolo in a while. what is she up to? well, we are hanging round dunedin for today and then heading north with mount cook in mind and then chrischurch.
cheerio
T

PS did i mention that i wouldn’t mind a ginger pusskin??? good egg

I am suffering from the same cracked heal problem as dod. I had a couple of really deep splits in my right heal until yesterday evening when Tan spent 10 minutes scraping off a good 6 inch piece of dead skin with a cheese grater, as the pumice stone I’d earlier tried was having no effect. It was merely wearing itself down on the prime billtong!

THe Kepler Track was pretty good, albeit really tiring. I expect Tan has told you all about the skin tight trouser with shorts over the top wearing morons who you could guarantee would always be carrying a couple of walking poles just for good measure. Quite ridiculous if you ask me, but obviously the latest walking craze. Started my german tourists no doubt! No offence Jul.

Geoff