Just can't say no!

Lordy, you know you have a problem when you come home with a bag full of paua and kina shells.
And I don't mean ones that you've picked up during a romantic stroll along the beach - no, I mean ones someone else is THROWING AWAY.
And why?
Because I can't say no to free stuff.
I think it's part of the same sector of my brain that makes me keep those little bread plastic do-uppy things, which quite frankly you just never know when you're going to need.

At the moment my mother is doing a fabulous spring clean and in the weekend she was in her sewing room collecting up old piles of knitting needles to give away and I nearly asked for some...and I DON'T even knit!

Having said that...... how cute are these shells...I wonder if she has any more...

PS .... I'm in total bliss, I can hear a lawnmower in the distance, and a tui in the oak tree right outside and sunshine is streaming in my window .... mmmmm spring is here early :) Beautiful Gisborne!