Happy?

What a lovely four day break we've had.  It didn't start out great though.  Friday found Mr John on an emergency mission around town trying to get his laptop fixed.  His hard-drive had "bitten the dust".  

After calling into a few shops and being told "broken" he finally found a place that was able to communicate and to cut a very long story short - it's all fixed.  Now he just has to go about replacing all the documents he's lost without the aid of any back-ups, doh!  I did benefit from his excursion however as he turned up with lunch on Friday.  Mutton curry complete with roti bread. It was a great surprise and tasted fabulous.


Actually, when I think about it, the whole weekend started out rather badly.  I had commented on Thursday night how Mr John was looking rather pale and sure enough, Friday saw him with a terrible cold which I suspect was "man-flu" this is so beyond the usual cold we girls suffer from and, according to my male friends, is the worse type of illness you can have.  Fortunately it only lasted a couple of days as he took himself off to the pharmacy near the lake and they gave him these tablets that just worked miracles.  By the following day he'd stopped sneezing and by Sunday morning his sore throat had cleared up.

As he wasn't feeling very well, I thought a fried egg on toast would be ideal full of protein for breakfast on Saturday.  So I duly got myself organised and got the camping stove out.  The "lock lever" had got out of position so I put that back and turned the ignition on.  OMG we had a fire in the kitchen!!  There were flames coming out all around the switch and the gas can on the right hand side - none of it where it should be.  I grabbed a tea-towel and tried to beat them out, meanwhile yelling out "we have fire, we have fire".  Mr John came lurching down the hallway full of cold and took in the sight.  Using his teacher voice, he got me out of the way and opening the back door so he could turn off the cooker and take it outside to the tiled balcony.

It's OK, you can laugh. No harm was done, everyone's alright.  That has of course meant that we've not had a gas ring to cook anything on all weekend.  Mr John tried it again once it was outside but to no avail.  Oddly enough there aren't any pictures of the flames ok so maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration as the "flames" were under an inch high.  It was a good excuse however to get a takeaway from Lollipop Cafe - which continues to excel itself.

taken about 18:30

After all this excitement, the weekend settled down and we chilled out.  There was a super moon around this weekend and we tried desperately to get a good photo of it.  And the reason we had the long weekend was that yesterday, the Queens birthday, is also recognised as Mothers Day here.  We bought a small flowering orchid and delivered it to Tan (head chef at Tom's shop) who was very pleased with it. At least we think she was.  There was lots of smiling but she doesn't speak any English.  I'm going with her being happy too.