During the week I have been
receiving lots of messages from friend, Jane, who is in NZ with her daughter,
Emily. They are enjoying a lovely time together & according to Jane, Bay of
Islands is full of baby boomers! This photo of Emily was taken at a swish
restaurant, which they really enjoyed. They spent yesterday at historic
Russell, and are planning a visit to mud pools today. John & Jan Smith have
been cruising around NZ for a couple of weeks & are arriving back in
Daylesford later today. Sadly John has broken his ankle – no further details
known!
It has been fairly hot all week,
which I have found very difficult to cope with and have been lacking any get up
and go. Apart from a lovely lunch with Rhonda at ‘Gracenotes’ on Tuesday, and Max
Walter’s funeral on Wednesday morning, I’ve really been quite slack – cryptics,
logic puzzles, Words with Friends, Holiday Strong & the tennis &
Twenty20 cricket have filled my week. Wes went to Rotary, has taken Barbara for
the big shop & hot chocolate afterwards, has walked the boys every morning
& cooked most nights. He is showing amazing patience and I am very grateful
to him. His main project this week has been the garden – it has been mowed and
weeded to within an inch of its life and he is currently attacking the garden
under the decking, where there is serious soil erosion and hoping to solve that
problem. My main contribution has been to pick roses and array them
decoratively around the house!
This morning we walked the boys
together, which was lovely. Judi is back walking her dogs with Wes most days,
and I have been trying to get up early and achieve while my brain is at its
best. I took the boys to the Sunday Market as usual, where Yvonne begged me to
leave them with her, as they are a talking point for her customers & very
good for business. Wes had instructed me to not come home without a rose, so I
asked Ken what he recommended and he sold me two beautiful roses for $20 – the
early shopper’s bargain. Once Wes had weeded we realised we had lots of spaces
for new roses, as well as tomato plants etc.
On Friday we were visited by
Steamatic, who were sent by the Fire Claim Assessors to see if they could get
the soot marks out of our lounge suite. Craig the Kiwi did a colour test first
and discovered that the suite could not been cleaned. He suspects that the
damage was done by the first set of cleaners who obviously did not test the
fabric first and the colours have bled into the fabric. EEK! We didn’t want to
have to get it re-upholstered, but that may be the only solution. We are still
living with the burnt floor as the recommended builders have been on holidays
and we hope that we soon come to the top of their list of repair jobs. Ditto
the painters.
Our good friend, Carol Bruce, has been most unwell again this week, with a few days in hospital
suffering a recurring problem. She is now home and we have been sending each
other Skype messages as she is not well enough for long phone calls. She was
close to needing another operation, but fortunately the doctors were able to
solve her problem without that drastic action so quickly after the stents were
put in. My aunt, Jeff, is also progressing well, and is getting frustrated with
the slowness of her recovery, which is a good sign. Viva is also getting better
slowly but surely and we hope to see her on Wednesday. I was going to visit
yesterday, but she wanted to sleep, so we have postponed it.
Enjoy your week & I’ll be in
touch again soon. P.S. David & Helen Lazzaro’s middle child, Maya, is in a
great ‘Buy Australian Made’ advertisement in this week’s Woman’s Day, if you
should be flicking through it.
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