I have officially left Hastings, and am now back to living in Inglewood. I drove over yesterday/today with a stop over at Mum and Dads last night. It's nice to split the trip, cos it is a long one, plus I needed some warmer clothes and they were already at mum and dads lol. I am happily all unpacked now, the cats have been fed and like typical cats I have not seen them since feeding them dinner. (For those that don't know I am staying with Susan, a long time family friend, while I get my unit sold and find a new place to call my own. Susan is fostering two cats, and she is currently in Australia so it is up to me to keep these two cats fed and alive for a couple weeks... 😶 and yes Susan is Aunty Susan but as I don't need an adoptive Aunty anymore, rumour has it I'm all grown up now, thought I'd give calling her just Susan a go 😊 lol). Anyhow, I thought I would sum up my time in Hawke's Bay somehow. Cos it was quite a while that I was there, the longest time I've lived anywhere since leaving home to go to uni way back when. And as you likely know I like numbers so here is my time in Hawke's Bay in numbers 😄
8 yrs 1.5 months - total time lived here
1st home bought (and now on the market to hopefully be sold)
4x places of work, 5x different roles
4x Art Deco’s attended
1x props room needing sorting that lead to a wonderful and strong friendship
0x props rooms actually sorted (lol)
4x book groups joined and regularly attended (each for a while at least)
3x local theatres joined
2x major health setbacks
2x major health setbacks overcome
11x tattoos (give or take… lol)
Things I have not been able to accurately count (for different reasons):
Amazing friends
Book events/launches attended
Authors met
Theatre shows taken part in, either back stage or front of house
Winery sessions - hanging with friends or reading a book on my own
Visits to The Figgery (I did buy myself a The Figgery t-shirt before leaving, it was a must really)
Dinners cooked by Namaskar
Kilometres run
New to me music discovered (some is new music, some is old music I didn’t realise I loved)
Dance parties held in my lounge (Glenny can confirm my dancing has not improved, not even a little bit, but my enthusiasm has never wavered lol)
Radio shows produced/part of
Hairstyles and hair colours
