You can never have enough...

[Jan]

morning ladies   Those big black clouds look a amazing with the sun shining behind them.

Early last evening our son facetimed us from Kyoto.  He had some time and was out shopping.  I get, hi mum and dad, look at this!  And he's in a sewing shop with rows and rows and rows and rows and rows (you get the picture) of embroidery thread.  Beautiful jewels of colour all hanging begging to be stitched.  The lady who owned the shop was laughing so hard at my reaction lol. I was omg omg omg lol, loooook at that! He asked me to pick what I wanted, I had no idea lol.  So have left it to the shop owner to decide.  He phoned back later to have a better chat and said the poor woman was so confused when this big burly kiwi guy walked into her shop lol.  He explained via Google translate he wanted to buy a present for his mother.  She was delighted and he was treated like an honoured guest.  And it helped that Monday was the annual holiday Respect Your Elders Day, so this was fresh in her mind.  NOT that I am elderly lol   Nice isn't it, they have a day for oldies.  Theres also a Young Persons Day in their spring as well.  He has also bought a gift for MrK and both gifts will be posted when he gets back to Perth.  He's decided there is no way on this green earth you would get him to live in Tokyo.  Waaaaaay too many people.  He's a lot like me and hates crowds.  But is loving Kyoto and says it has a kiwi vibe to it.  They are off to Osaka today.  He hasn't completely converted to Australian lol.  When the lady asked where was he from he said NZ   You can take the kiwi out of NZ but not NZ out of the kiwi

MrK's PC is coming this morning, a different lady as his usual lady is away today.  Housework for me and I need to go to the supermarket for low fiber food as MrK preps for this colonoscopy.  Looking at the list of what he can eat, we realised just how high fiber our diet is.  I haven't bought white bread for years.  Neither of us are looking forward to this as MrK is so slow using his walker.  He's worried he will miss the loo.  Will just have to deal with things as they happen.

Time to get cracking and face the day

Hi everybody - know exactly how you felt Kiwimaid- I went on a couple of tours in Japan of silk embroiderer and thread shoos - spent most of the time in tears 
Kiwimaide if your son has a chance to pop into a stationer - your grandchildren would love the paint or pencil sets - they package them in the cutest containers mainly tin - my boys still have several I brought back 50 years later - cheap as chips and easy to just poke into the corner of a suitcase - the paint and pencil colours mirrored the spectacular thread colours 
If ever you win lotto or have an unexpected  windfall buy yourself a silk tour ticket