Thursday 3rd January 2019......and so it begins!!!!

I was awake at 6.30 am and took this shot...

Three minutes later the same view...

Amazing contrasts!!!

Then the balloons came out....

Here I go again with the “a great way to start a day”...but it was two hours of great tennis under flawless skies!!

After tennis came back to the house let the dogs out...that is a song isn’t it??

Athen over to my casita to greet the work party.....

Here Suzy and Kim are having way too much fun to be working!!!

These four work horses....

Daryl, Michael, Mathew and Willie!!!

.there are not words I can write to thank them for pumping up over 315 soccer balls......total time for work part just over two hours...I am still Gob Smacked!!!!  Do not know this term??

 You’re most likely to come across this mainly British slang term as the adjective gobsmacked; your gobsmack and another form, gobstruck, are less common.

Gobsmacked combines the northern English and Scottish slang term gob, mouth, with the verb smack. It suggests the speaker is utterly astonished or astounded. It’s much stronger than just being surprised; it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. 

Though the trail of written evidence was until recently believed to date only from the early 1980s, we knew it went back a lot further in the spoken language. 

Gobsmacked, like gob itself, comes from northern English and southern Scottish dialects.

It was taken up shortly afterwards by broadsheet newspapers such as The Times, the Sunday Times and the Independent as well as the Guardian and by politicians who used it to display their demotic credentials. It has since travelled widely. William Safire commented in The New York Times in 2004 that the “locution is sweeping the English world”. The success of the Scottish singer Susan Boyle in BBC television’s Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 led to a further boost, since she used it copiously in interviews.

It’s an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like shut your gob! to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to a Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.

The five people arrived with their vehicles and each one was loaded up with gifts for one school.....so really I am all sort.....all the gifts labelled for the right school, extra gifts ready...so bring on tomorrow!!

Came home a little weary but a long soak in the tub was a good remedy......a nice light supper and now going to watch my show!!

Thank you everyone reading who has helped and donated to this fantastic cause!!!!

Yashi Kochi!!!