RED

Y'all remember my book club? It is an excellent book club. We are RED club (Reading Eating Drinking). We take it in turns to pick a book and host a get together where we eat, drink and briefly discuss the chosen book. These are the books we've read to date:

Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres (me)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (M-M)

Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller (Dr SG)

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (Mons)

The Songmaster by Di Morrissey (Fi)

Grieve by Lizzie Wilcock (Beth)

Ours is a small but hard-core group of friends and readers. We are about to get a bit smaller and more hard-core with the departure of (founder-member) Mons, and our next book: Shades of Grey (with thanks to Mrs T). 

Mons arrived in TP shortly after LAFE and what she has managed to pack into 18 months makes us seem like a lazy bunch of stay-at-homes*.

Gratuitous Freya photo

Today we had a farewell lunch for Mons at the hospital. There were tears...

And presents...

Mons will be missed all over town. Personally I'll miss her as a colleague, a fellow RED and a netball team mate. We hope that Mons will fly up for future RED club meets and the Netball Finals, where the currently undefeated KDs are likely to end up!!

Stinky-Roo, honorary RED member.

Awesome RED women (sorry M-M, this was the only photo of the three of you!)

Cahhhhn the Bloooes!!  Team KD: killing it on the court, FO SHIZ!!

* If you'd like another perspective on Tompers, have a quick google of 'Mons does Tom Price', you'll find some great writing, hilarious anecdotes and pretty pictures!