Autumn has arrived in Motueka. The main sign is that our feijoas are falling, ripe, to the ground. The only way to tell if they are ripe is see them fall. Luckily they have thick skins and don't get bruised easily.
Betty is playing golf twice a week, to make for which, I have been unable to get on the course at all since the twilight golf finished. betty is one of a small group of ladies who make up the only team of golfers from Tasman Golf Club, and she fills the positions of Ladies' president, club captain and "minute" secretary for the main golf committee. A fearsome combination would be harder to find than one of my well struck drives off the tees, and that is saying something!
I am leading a research team, identifying molluscs for the Motueka museum. After we complete that exercise the shells will be displayed as a reference set at the museum. In addition to that, i am teaching three classes at Seniornet: Word processing, Powerpoint, and Website construction. At U3A, I have joined in the group studying the physical geography of the Motueka valley, and have given a short talk on the Isle of Man - to follow up my talk last year on Trafalgar. A good way to increase your own knowledge is to try to teach something to others.