Wednesday 13th
April 2016
It is still very very hot here, and very very dry. On Saturday at Camp Holiday we were sitting
on our little porch having a little drink when two very friendly people, Eileen
and Neil came to chat. They have just
returned to live on Mindanao after sixteen years in Canada. We commented on the weather and they said, “But
yes it has rained in the past month! And
in fact it is raining now!”
Rain?? A very fine sheet of
drizzle was in fact falling from the sky.
I rushed out to stand in the rain but…I didn’t even get wet, it all evaporated
before it could have any effect. The
farmers here are having a very hard time, with their fields drying up, their
orchards turning crispy. They all shrug and
say, El Nino, if you ask them about the
weather.
This morning I went to town, to pick up our 2XS cards, from Victoria
Plaza, and to get a new mattress made for the spare cabin. I hauled the old one out yesterday. It was GHASTLY being engulfed in sticky old
foam in the heat of the day, in the narrow passageways of 2XS!! The old mattress truly was horrid, even when stretched
out on the concrete outside the narrow boat passageways. I was going to haul it up to the clubroom and
give it to Poipoi the gardener, who wants every single bit of crapola coming
his way. But Michael the painter leapt
upon it with a glad cry. “Garbage??” he
asked, keenly. I said well no, not garbage,
but that he could have it and he beamed with joy and lugged it home. I hope his wife doesn’t notice quite how
sweaty and …ghastly…it is…
I was going to stop at the Swiss Deli for a restorative cup of coffee
between my four jeepney rides, two ferry rides, one van ride and one tricycle
ride but…once again there was a power blackout.
No aircon, no coffee…so I trudged sadly out and walked down the hot dry
road to Manadaue Foam to order the new (strangely shaped) mattress.
None of this was exactly fun but probably I was having more fun than Pete,
who has been toiling away all day long with his team of willing workers. But I did buy what I think is a very nice
hat. Unfortunately my selfie skills have
not improved at all…but the hat is good, isn’t it?
You are a mad woman! Lovely hat on the mad woman's head x
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