Congee for breakfast at Raffles
Dear Everyone, we have now spent a whole week back in Daylesford and are gradually getting back into routine. Because it is school holidays some of our regular activities are on hold, which has allowed us to catch up on friends and paperwork. We have just returned from another lovely breakfast at Café 3460, and although Kim didn’t produce hoppers, he did serve wonderful platters of sausages, eggs, bacon, baked beans, tomatoes, mushroom, spinach and two kinds of toast. John Smith has porridge with stewed fruit and I continue to have my omelette, but everyone else is very happy with the platters and life is much easier in the kitchen!
Carol brought Alexandra in for a hot chocolate and she brought me some flowers to say thank you for a black & white necklace we brought home from India for her. She enjoys playing with the boys, although they got very excited when she fed them and accidentally nipped her fingers. I think everything is OK again as they licked her to death when I was trying to disentangle them and take them home after breakfast. Gail was her usual entertaining self and had us all laughing, although Glenn may have taken the honours with a small contribution of a New Zealand joke told to him by Dr Jon Barrell. It is too rude to reproduce here!
Viva is doing well, although heavy rain got into their roof again and the new ceiling batts that had just been laid will need to be replaced. For some reason the repairpersons decided that mending the gap in the roof would be the last job to be done. We hope to catch up with her and Leanne on Easter Saturday, and hear all their news.
Barbara’s cat, Ascot, is improving slowly but surely. Wes has taken her and Barbara to the vet twice during the week and Andrew, the vet, thinks she is getting better, although she is still not eating very much and is too weak to do anything other than be confined to quarters. By Friday Barbara was confident enough to leave her for the day and Wes accompanied her to the Austin Hospital for her regular visit to see what can be done to make her life more comfortable. She has a new back to her wheelchair which supports her better than the previous ones. Afterwards they had a late lunch, and then went to see a film, as Barbara had been housebound with Ascot for so long, apart from shopping and lunch with Wes on Wednesday.
I have had flu and pneumonia injections, attended a lovely U3A lunch with Judi at the Mill Market, bought a new Motorola phone and spent ages working out how to use it, played Mah Jong with Carol & Dot, had a manicure and pedicure that were well overdue, caught up with Rhonda over lunch, gone to Ballarat for a facial, and gotten back into the swing of Rotary with Wes.
Wes has been busy catching up with his sister, Denise; with Jeff Bain, as they are joint executors of Averil’s will; with Rob McDonald to discuss the Swiss & Italian Festa; as well as getting back into the Family Tree; scanning old photos and Facebook. We were both thrilled to hear from our friend, Norma that she doesn’t have to go back to her oncologist for three months, so she can travel to China next month as she had hoped.
Norma & I looking hot at the World Cup Final
On Friday afternoon, Terry White and I headed to the MCG for the Collingwood & Richmond game. Terry is a Rugby League fan of the Wests Tigers, so I thought this was a good game to take him to – we had a lovely time together, and although he will never be a convert, I suspect he appreciates footy a little more than he did before. He told me the highlight of his evening was witnessing the passion of David Lazzaro, who joined us at half-time and stayed on to answer all the questions I hadn’t been able to answer satisfactorily! Terry was disappointed that the first half wasn’t close and got quite excited in the third quarter when the Tigers outplayed the Pies and got within 4 goals – he even clapped one of their goals, which was the only time he really got involved. Sadly for him the Pies ran away in the last quarter and we won by 12 goals. It was a late night and I finally got to bed at 1.15am.
Yesterday Wes and Barbara drove back into Melbourne for the Carlton & Essendon game. Unfortunately Barbara’s wheelchair was damaged when they drove into the Arts Centre car park, so they had to return home and watched the game at Barb’s place on delay. I took Bilbo & Frodo to Victoria Park to see Daylesford beat Dunnstown in a thrilling game that we only won in the last 10 minutes. Wes refused to look at text messages, but did see an email from Jane Knox, saying she was sorry for him. He assumed Carlton had lost, and was just as furious that they had played a draw with Essendon. Everyone at the local footy was glued to my trannie getting scores as it was such an exciting game.
Last night we had been invited to a surprise 60th birthday party for Jim Swatman, but Wes was feeling unwell and exhausted, and I was tired as I had gotten home so late the night before, so we decided an early night was in order and retired to bed to watch the Swans and Cats battle in atrocious conditions at the SCG. The Swans were valiant, but the class of the Cats won out.
Tonight we are off to have dinner with Frank Page and Ellis Ebell and they are serving Sri Lankan curries. Ellis is Sri Lankan and he and Frank are holidaying there next month with a few other Daylesford friends, two of whom will be at the dinner tonight. We look forward to sharing our experiences and enjoying Sri Lankan food again. I’ll be back in touch next Sunday and let you know how it went.
The Indian laundry we visited in Mumbai
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