Work in progress.....

 Here's a  breadfruit  bowl that  we're working on at the moment. It 's not quite finished, but I think it already looks quite nice.

Tuati's birthday cake

Sunday is Tuati's fourteenth birthday, we're plunging deeper into the troubled teens. He's actually been good as gold, thus far, though there are clearly some small currents of angst swirling there beneath the surface. He's gone very anti birthdays, that's just for the little kids! And as we're going to be busy with guests I wanted to do something a bit in advance, so today we made some pre-birthday profiteroles this afternoon.......they turned out a bit funnny 'cause I had to go off to the airport in the middle of it all, and the roles got removed from the oven before they were really ready and then re-cooked! But we still managed to eat them with guava syrup....YUM!

 What could possibly go wrong with my exceptionally

talented sous-chef here at my side!

La Rentree

Monday was 'la Rentree' for Matotea, she's graduated from the baby class, up into SP. She's now with Madame Bridgitte, but Monsieur Helden still comes to give her a morning hug!

 It's been a long year, since her first rather more hesitant rentree, she's quite a lot more grown up now, and chatters away at nineteen to the dozen. Tuati has also started his 'new' school here in Rurutu, I've been brushing up on my math, to help him out with his homework!

(More) New Shoes!

Matotea is rapidly becoming the Imelda Marcos of Rurutu, we just received a new shipment of LaRedoute clothing, including these particularly attractive pink baseball boots, they're rather generously sized but they do look awfully cute on her!