Look at me now!

Lina gave me this hydrangea as a cutting a few months back, and I can just imagine her (the plant) saying, 'Look at me now!'  Wow, what a success!

A left-handed mouse.  Now that's a concept I hadn't even imagined, so thanks very much for telling me about it, Winifred.  Nor had I ever thought about left-handed people and a mouse. How do they manage??

For once I'm up early.  (It's 7:38 right now.)  I have so much to do I need to start every day earlier as I'm much slower than I used to be.  The arm slows me down, but it's more old age!  Yesterday, for example, it took me the whole day just to supervise Emma's piano practice, sweep the floor, give and take English/Japanese lessons, buy a couple of things at the supermarket, go to exercise class and cook dinner.  I was in bed before 7pm.  Oh, and I had a swim in the rain when I got back from exercises.  


I'm pleased with the way my Japanese is coming along and the days go so quickly the books stay at the table all week between lessons.  (But I always take one of them on the train with me when I go anywhere.)  Mind you, I think I'm doing OK, but Emma roars laughing at my pronunciation.  The in-laws are coming along very nicely with their English, too.  Emma has just started to practise the piano, after a year of lessons, and yesterday she popped down at 8 to wake me up and ask to practise!!!  This was a first!  There's no way you can force a young child, so I have been very patient, all the while feeling very sorry for the poor teacher, who hardly saw any movement at all between lessons.