with broken heart and heartburn, two residents of the republic mostly moped their way through a cloudy january, not caring to notice one thing or the other...
...until the month's end, when a new visitor brought a suitcase full of sunshine with her.
the clouds lifted a little when linda arrived.
part of the local college's foreign exchange programme, linda wanted to come and stay with a vegetarian kiwi family while she was visiting from germany.
bringing with her the hope of a warm summer (and some german chocolate) she immediately healed calix' broken heart.
every morning calix would get out of bed early to 'help' linda prepare for school- handing her a specially ripened plum to put in with her sandwiches, or a red truck.
he quickly learnt that linda said danke instead of merci and it didn't take long for calix to call out tchus every morning when she left.
smitten.
and when linda's friends came to visit.... we could barely bribe him out of her bedroom with papaya or chocolate!
he wouldn't be the first french man to fall for an older woman.
good things tend to happen when love is in the air... and so the summer recovered sufficiently to bring us plenty of tomatoes,
some nude bicycle riding
and a good bunch of potatoes.
xx
mama b
coming up- more tales of tsunamis and sunshine.
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