FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

The weeks are flying by so fast that when it is Monday it's already Friday, I think it is because every day I do the same thing, or nearly.

As usual we had our Scrabble game and I was fourth out of five, but close to the third. What an event ! Of course now it's finished to play outside and we were at Mireille's who has the big black dog Tosca. As we all have cats and no dogs she was very interested in our handbags but of course even more in the cake. Mireille had gotten the results of her eye test and unfortunately her Macula got worse and now she can see only to 25 % on one eye and nearly nothing but shapes and fortunately colors on the other. She never complains, does the best paintings and always wins at Scrabble ! Really I admire her.


These are her paintings

I had to go to the hairdresser who had big worries about her baby girl because it doesn't want to sleep and during the whole procedure of hair cutting I listen what she had to complain and tried to give her hope for the future. Fortunately she didn't put her worries in my hair and I was satisfied with my hair cut.

My friend Ilona has a new cat,  a ginger one named Dorie It had been a while that I hadn't been visiting her. Unfortunately the new cat which apparently is beautiful remained invisible so I didn 't see her and of course I couldn't take a picture. We chatted about Greta, climate, Trump, Johnson and the Brexit, and had to realize that we couldn't do anything anyway but finding funny things about them and laughing. It's already funny that Johnson and Trump look like twin brothers and have the same big mouth.

Our "renovated" painting class has two new members and a new fresh wind blows through the class and motivates all of us. We have changed the tables and seats so that we have 3 distinct groups. One learning different techniques, one who just paint for pleasure and knew already what they are doing and then those who do the pouring, which is a quite dirty thing, needs a lot of paper, so the old News Papers  are very useful again.



Our three group class


and my new painting which has now to dry.

After class to celebrate our renewed seating system we went for lunch in a Moroccan Restaurant which is really excellent. We had a lot of fun and I am sure the guests wondered who the heck these noisy old girls were !



The mint tea was served in the traditional way, but I suggested the waiter to climb on a chair to be a bit higher and try to pour the tea in the cup !

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FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

The days seem to be like  a pearl necklace, every day the same routine ! Each day I am full of ideas of what I could do, but then mostly, looking out of the window my energy drops under ground and I decide to do what I wanted to do tomorrow, but when tomorrow arrives I'll do it tomorrow etc.l

From the snow nothing is left besides dirty streets ! 



I managed to write for my blogs, and discovered a few new features on my new computer. Besides that I watched some crimes on TV and looked out into the rain ! Murder in the rain is better then in sunshine !

Fortunately the next day was Scrabble day and I should write in my agenda that I won ! That was the first time since we "founded" our Scrabble group !

When we had our coffee time, Nicole served us pancakes, which we could eat with sugar, honey or jam. They were delicious !



Ours are bigger and very thin than in other countries.

Nicole's cat observed our game and also the coffee, but as there was nothing for her she lay down in her basket and watched from far.



Of course she took her second tail with her, it's a mink tail which Nicole had cut off an old fur collar. Isis loves it, it fits to her fur. (see post below)

In my painting group, I tried to recuperate an old painting which I didn't like, except the background



and I started a cat face, looks funny at that stage. As usual we had a very nice time.

After the painting class we decided to try out a new Moroccan restaurant which had opened recently in Waterloo. The lunch was a Tajine with red beans and beef !



It was delicious. We had no room for a dessert anymore only for a coffee.



The restaurant was beautifully decorated and for a couple of hours we were in Morocco. In the garden outside stood a camel, not a real one of course.

After two hours and a lot of chatting we left, full and happy !

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