Volcanoes, a cat, and cricket

[vilakins]

I didn't do much that was exciting today, but Greg did. I bought him a three weeks early birthday present: an hour's flight over the three volcanoes (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro) at the other end of the lake. He took lots of crater and lahar pictures, plus a good one of The Village as he came back in to land.

We were visited by a cat this morning, a magnificent and very friendly Birman (think fluffy Siamese, blue eyes and all). I don't know if he belongs here or is a neighbour's cat looking for daytime company. Unexpected cats are the embodiment of serendipity. :-)

We also watched NZ beat Canada, who are another team with promise. I hope that teams like Ireland, Kenya, and Canada will get invitations to play the more well-known teams in future, but the big cricket news is the murder of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, an appalling tragedy. News just in as I type: they seem to have arrested someone for it.
[Edit] No, it was a completely unfounded rumour from Delhi.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

The police are denying the arrest. You two seem to have wonderful birthday ideas. I do hope we shall see Greg's photos! If you're anything like me, you were scrabbling frantically for a camera when the cat came round and couldn't find one!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Unexpected cats are the embodiment of serendipity. :-)

I agree, I met a lovely one on the walk home from work yesterday.

I made the cake, it was great! I left out the alcohol, and it's still lovely - thank you for the recipe :0)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he belongs here or is a neighbour's cat looking for daytime company.

Judging from the Burmans I knew donkeys years ago it was probably looking for daytime company. They are very people orientated beauties and the ones I knew would climb you if you ignored them, luckily it was the time of the maxi so only my clothes suffered