Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mother's Day



I had a very pleasant Mothers Day - went to Mass at St Benedict's - a nice family Mass with all the mothers going up to the front at the end to get a special blessing with everybody in the congregation stretching out one arm in solidarity.
From there we went to the museum. Wandered through the Wintergarden, first looked at the exotic eggplants in shades of yellow and white , beautiful chrysanthemums, bromeliads and ferns. At the museum there was an interesting and moving exhibition of paintings by the present war artist, Matt Gauldie, realistic looking paintings and portraits of soldiers in Afghanistan, the Solomons and several depicting aspects of the trip of the Unknown warrior back to New Zealand and the ceremonies back here.
Home for lunch with some delicious flatbread from an Italian bakery off Ponsonby Road to go with the minestrone I made during the week. Time for a game of scrabble online before we headed off to a recorder recital in the Baptist Church in Jervois Road, not a church I recall being in before, a lovely old wooden church with blue columns flanking the altar. The music was great - Baroque mainly - Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and others.
Elisabeth joined us for afternoon coffee and scones I made. Didn't get round to making the cake or biscuits I was planning but hey, there will be another occasion, Dieter's birthday to be precise, in a couple of weeks.
Didn't feel like cooking either so we all went off to the Food Hall where we had the Coco lamb, a Vietnamese lamb and pumpkin dish with coconut cream, not as nice as the Beef curry we had there last time.
So it has been an enjoyable day and hope you all had a Happy Mothers' Day too, one way or another.

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