Great to see you here James. I knew a blogsite called "coeconnection" would light up; yeehah!! A lot for us newbies to learn but we'll give it a go! I think I've jlearnt just now that it's pretty silly to comment on the comment ............ where does the comment go?

I'll try to repeat my comment now, in, "create post" which must share better I hope.

Time out from trip planning for us today. The rain has been persssssisting down all day and with an early morning suggestion from Dan that this could be a good day to christen Yasmina's new Monopoly board game we thought......perrrrrrrrrrfect; and it was.

When did you last kick back and settle in to an afternoon challenge of Monopoly? I think for me it may have been 40+ years ago (aaaaagh). Did you know that nowadays the locations are in NZ and the dollar values are in the hundreds of thousands! Great day, great game. Fred managed to call and visit Yasmina's Waiheke Island every round (plus Chance and Community Chest and very often Jail) and Yasmina seemed to have a continuing need to stop and buy carrots every round at Fred's Ohakune property. Capitalist Olwyn was quick to build apartments (not just mere houses these days!) with the subsequent opportunity to collect big fat rents, but all in all lots of fun for all and let's hope we can do this more often!@

Curried crockpot chicken with rice and green beans are calling and then it's back to prioritising places to go and sights to see ......... I think I'll look at Provence and Cote de Azure tonight... ooo ooo ooooooh