Birthday girls

Sandy Bay BWA. I started trying to teach the ladies to do cross stitch embroidery on a sample piece of fabric. 2 ladies did very well, but the other 3 struggled. The idea of the crafts is to expose the ladies to different things, and in so doing, find out which disciplines suit which lady. I am not a natural teacher of crafty things - I prefer to work on my own, and improvise and change patterns as I go. My task for the coming week is to mark out 6 patterns on 6 pieces of cross stitch fabric for next week's meeting.

5.00 pm. Instead of the usual Bible study, we had a combined birthday party at Cape Villa. 4 of the ladies have a birthday in one week. Felicity turned 50, Anya turned 23, Stephanie turned 60 and Miss Yon turned 92. See photo of Anya, Stephanie and Miss Yon. Felicity had the day off and was not with us.

On the way home, Kate and I chatted about what keeps her so fit (I don't know her age, but she lives at the old age home) As there were no cars or even public transport in "days gone", all of the children used to walk very long distances on a daily basis e.g. Felcity used to take the "short cut" up Jacob's ladder on her way to school each morning, and then home again in the afternoon, and Miss Yon walked what amounted to a cross country mini marathon each day to and from school. But Kate also believes strongly in "greasing" her legs every night after her bath. She rubs methylated spirits into them, if she has any spirits available. If not, "anything that is available - even margarine" can be used.... A novel beauty routine, but it obviously works for Kate.