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All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go
Topic Started: Oct 13 2016, 10:03 PM (817 Views)
Caro

We thought I was having a hospital appointment in Dunedin (110kms away) today so booked a night away for a garden tour tomorrow nearby. The carer and I chose clothes for the time away, including new clothes I had just bought. This morning about 8.10 the phone rang and it was the doctor's clinic saying they had to cancel because of staff sickness. So I dressed for an outing, and we have booked accommodation so we are still going up, but not so early. Will have dinner out, and maybe go to a movie, though it's hard to see one we want to see - maybe Golden Years or Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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rumbaba
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Have a great time <ok>
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waiting4atickle
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Deepwater Horizon is an excellent disaster movie about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill - Mrs Tickle and I saw it last week. Mrs T saw Bridget Jones's Baby a couple of weeks ago and said she hadn't laughed so much in years. Not sure it would be my cup of tea, though.

Have a good time, whatever.



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I sincerely hope you have a nice trip away Caro, whatever you do after your garden tour...if you feel like seeing a gentle film set in 1930's America where a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood, then Woody Allen's third film to open this year's Cannes film festival might fit the bill.. Cafe Society stars Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Kirsten Stewart, Blake Lively.
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Caro

We didn't get to any movies; there were none on that we wanted to see at the time we could get to them. I didn't think my husband would like Bridget Jones' Baby, but I have since read good things about it and perhaps he would have. I don't think the Woody Allen one has started here yet. I used to like disaster movies but haven't seen one for many years now.

We did get out for dinner at a well-known and patronised hotel specialising in seafood. I had a seafood platter with gallons of shellfish - mussels, scallops (though not the big beautiful ones I like), clams, and three pieces of battered sole. My husband had sole with potatoes and salad. He could have had chips and vegetables, but he is one of those rare men who always orders the salad.

I couldn't get right into all the gardens - wheelchairs are hard to push on gravel and make a mess on grass, and gardens nearly all have a mixture of those, but I was able to see part of all them. Lovely gardens, but most of them look more work than we can comfortably manage now. Lovely time in spring to look at gardens - there are still daffodils around, and the native kowhai are in bloom and tulips and the rhododendron are coming up roses! Sorry about that dreadful almost-pun.
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