Barbara Dreaver

And then you always think, oh, it's coming, the fuel crisis, that might hurt.

And yes, I still, of course, struggle financially.

I think everybody does, right?

And it doesn't matter who you are.

I'm finding that everyone's struggling.

But I'm happy in myself.

I'm content with myself.

And I feel that I'm lucky to have these amazing people who just love me and are in my life.

And I get to experience some wonderful things with wonderful people.

Yeah.

But I do make candles.

Yeah.

So that's how I relax.

As one of my friends taught me how to make candles.

So I make them a little bit different.

And when I retire eventually, I've thought, oh, I'm going to just make candles.

I decorate them beautifully and in fact when here's a little story that most people don't know but when there was a redundancies you know going on at work and the reporters were finding out they're getting their letters and having to reapply for jobs and it's happening everywhere and

I made these candles for each person, decorated them with pāua or shell or little dried flowers.

And I get containers from secondhand shops and I just make these beautiful things for them.

So there was one waiting on their desk when they came in in the morning and it smelled beautiful because I love smells as well.