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I am feeling rather deprived as the Scrabulous site has closed down, euphemistically called taking a coffee break. Rather a long coffee break. I think it has something to do with copyright and Matell and them threatening them. Scrabulous.com has 600,000 members so a lot of us will be feeling the same. Consequently I have a lot more free time but no inclination as yet to do anything more constructive in it.

Went to the usual lunchtime concert in the library on Thursday, the last for the year. Friday there were drinks and a barbeque after work put on by the staff social club which I went to too.

Went to Orewa on the weekend to make a start on 3 months of weeds, one large plastic sack for each month so far. Had a nice visitor on Sunday, Pamela, with whom we had a nice walk along the beach and into Eaves Bush. With the start of daylightsaving we had a late departure round 7pm and felt we had made the most of the day.

Monday and Tuesday I went to the Y as usual and having burned up all those calories in advance , indulged at a cafe up the road in the afternoon with friend Theresa whom I usually meet up with in the school holidays.

Dined at the Ponsonby Food Hall after work then attended a lecture on Ostpolitik and the fall of the Berlin Wall by Peter Wilton, a New Zealander who has lived in Berlin for 37 years. It was interesting hearing about the events some of which we experienced ourselves in the early 1970s when we were in Germany.