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Its all got so exciting here I can hardly bear to tell you what is happening next! About a month ago I applied for a job on Aitutaki. This is one of the Cook Islands and must be one of the most beautiful, pristine Islands in the world, surrounded by an enormous lagoon.

I actually didn’t know what a lagoon was really. But its a beautiful stretch of water all the way around an island where the nasties (ie sharks and such) can’t get in and you just swim around in turqouise paradise. Supposedly you have to watch out for Stone Fish, treading on one of these can be lethal, and as you can imagine they look just like a stone (bit unfair really). Also Cone Shells are fairly horrid, since when you pick them up they shoot out a barb and next thing your dead!

So I applied for this job in the Garden Cafe (4-6 hours work a day for bed and board)  and heard nothing at all until yesterday when I received an email telling me to come for April. Everyone here is green with envy because its a very exclusive Island and you generally have to sell your soul to the devil to get there or have bags of money.

Being that I’m such a lucky and blessed person my freind Jo did her PHD research on Aitutaki and is freinds with their Queen and is going to get me an intro. Can’t imagine what that will be like! I met our boring old Lizzie when I was a kid and it wasnt a bit interesting, but if this Queen is anything like the King of Tonga (who lives only up the road from Aitutaki) it could be very interesting indeed.  Not sure what to wear?

Apart from that, all  things as normal here, we are expecting a hurricane tonight so everyone is battening the hatches.

My beautiful, intelligent and kind freind Tessa rang this morning at 9am. We had a fabulous chat, so nice to hear Lancaster news. She said she was having a Gin and Tonic. I thought Good Lord Tess must be going thro it drinking at this hour, forgetting of course it was evening in U.K. Still not sure how that works.

My younger sister is coming from Ireland next week, we are going to hire a cabriolet (13 quid each a day) and drive around the island in grand style.

Forget to tell you, the Barrier Bulletin (our local rag) has hired me to write (interesting articles) about the island and people. First one should be out next week. I’m afraid I’ve given the local men a bit of a hammering and have been told I can expect gun fire over my roof, if its not one thing its another…  eh?

Heading home in May , all things being equal, but at the moment I feel anything could happen.

Missing you all in Lancaster   With love Grace x

Post Christmas life here is very busy, and as promised half the Universe has turned up and is throwing their empty coke cans into that beautiful torquoise sea!

New years Eve was marvellous all dancing our heads off at Tryphena Club ’till 2am. The feet keep walking in for reflexology and if that were not enough I have also been leaning rather heavily on other branches of my expertise.

Last week there was a large fair here on Medlands Beach, a really stunning part of the Island. I put on a huge floppy hat covered in blossoms, a big belt with many little bags hanging off it containing crystals and other magic, some magenta lipstick and took my baskets filled with Crystal Ball, Divining Rods etc…..and the notice went up that Gypsy Deepwater the Fortune Teller would be on hand to see into the future.

There were queues outside my little jewelled tent all through the afternoon to witness my Pyschic Bean Throwing.         Never heard of Pyschic Bean Throwing ? I’m not suprised because I made it up that very morning. You ask the lady (its nearly always a lady) to hold the handful of beans and think about their life and what they want and need from it. Then you ask them to throw the beans in front of them. The way they throw the beans is quite spectaculalry individual. Some with great abandon from amazing heights and others cupping their hands over the ground. Then you tell them they are adventurous or very cautious and they, in their turn,  are astonished that you could have sussed that out.  We all had lots of fun and actually a bit of fairly worthwhile pyschic and healing stuff did go on.

I stayed so long that my lift was full so they said go with Peter you will be fine. It turns out Peter was going the 10 miles home on a quad bike, luckily for me the crash helmet was so big that it came in front of my eyes and I couldn’d see a thing, so I wasn’t as scared as I suspect I should have been!

Tonight I am running my first Yoga Class and a bit freaked out, anyone would think I hadn’t done it before, hopefully all will go well.

Just been out for a run in the car with Eric the acupuncturist, Eric is completley mad and has a beaten up VW. We were going to have a look at a beautiful little house that a few of us may want to turn into a healing center. So I tell Eric not to go up the track because its difficult to turn around. Up the track Eric goes and turns round on the edge of a precipiece one side  and very high ground at the other, next thing he’s stuck right across where he can’t move with the exhaust sticking into the high ground and the bonnet hanging over the descent. I got out of the car immidiately and began to run away because I couldn’t bear to see Eric die. All I really wanted to do was get the camera out of my bag so I could get a shot, it looked so funny. Eric was a little anxious and sweating, if he moved he would go over the edge!!!!!     After half an hours fragile machinations and maneouvers we escaped, he said “wait till you see what I can do in a 4 track vehicle!”                      Perish the thought. 

The sun is shining, it is very hot indeed and all is very very well.  Lots of love to all of you. Grace