Dear Friends, once again, we have
just returned from Café 3460, where we had a most enjoyable breakfast – lovely
food & sparkling conversation, mainly centred around advice for wives
wishing to take drastic action with husbands. This was sparked by the
realisation that Jan still has another 4.5 weeks of John wearing a moon boot,
which means she does all the driving, all the cooking & cleaning & all
the fetching & carrying, while he sits around being bored silly and
demanding!
On Australia Day we celebrated with
a very lavish breakfast at Gillie’s place – everyone contributed food &
drink & Gail provided decorations. Towards the end Gillie was even serving
her famous Pimm’s drinks, which must have contributed towards the ease with
which the tables were dismantled. There were 14 of us including Kim, Gary &
Kim’s aunty Pat, who is over from Hobart, and Aileen, who helps out at 3460 on
occasion. There were oysters & smoked salmon, zucchini cakes, kedgeree,
mushrooms & tomatoes. Judi cooked pancakes; Glenn took a leaf out of Brian
Fell’s book & made scrambled eggs according to a recipe on YouTube; Wes
barbecued bacon & snags, Gail recited bush poetry, and Terry played ‘God
Save the Queen’ on an ancient record player. Enjoy the photos:
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On the previous
night at the Hepburn Shire Australia Day Awards Ceremony, Café 3460 had won the
Best Business Award for the third time in four years, which is a wonderful
achievement. Everyone in Daylesford will be sorry when the Café closes. We
missed the night because we had spent most of the day in Melbourne. We started
with a good visit with Viva, who was looking much improved since the last time
we had seen her. After that we met Danny at ‘Westlake’ in Little Bourke Street,
for yum cha, to catch up with him & celebrate Chinese New Year. Then we visited
the Ian Potter Centre (the Australian wing of the National Gallery of
Victoria), where we saw an exhibition entitled ‘Bush Couture’ by Linda Jackson,
a well-known Australian designer. This was for members only, the day before the
official opening. Linda first started working with Jenny Kee, and that
influence shows in her work.
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Photo 1 shows Gillie, Terry, Gail, Aileen & bits of Barbara &
Kim; 2 is Gail’s table decoration; 3 is Judi & Glenn comparing cooking
notes; 4 shows Gillie, Karen, Terry, Judi & Glenn, & 5 is Kim, Barbara,
Pat & bits of Jan & John. Photo 6 is Wes with one of Aileen’s biscuits,
& 7 shows Gary & Kim with their Rotary Award
During the
week, we played golf together early one morning & were quite pleased with
our efforts, enough to persuade me to go out again on Friday morning early
before the heat set in. We’ve done a small amount of socialising – breakfast at
Gracenotes; drinks on the veranda with Andy Prophet & his girlfriend, Lisa,
who were spending 2 days here; more drinks on the veranda with our young Mayor,
Sebastian Klein, who wanted to use Wes as a sounding-board for some ideas he
has, & lunch at 3460 when we were superfluous to requirements at Roger
& Valerie Roberts’ Open Garden yesterday (we were rostered to be on the
gate, but there were already 4 helpers when we arrived).
As well I have been
playing Words with Friends with David Knox, Carol Bruce &Terry Borg;
watching the Aussies wrap up the Tests with a clean sweep, and occasionally
switching to the tennis; exchanging Viber messages with Jane Knox, who has
regressed in her recovery after feeling so well & probably doing too much,
and even occasionally making a meal! Wes has spent time with Barbara, done lots
of pruning in our garden, as well as mowing, worked on the Family History,
played online Chess and walked the boys every morning. We had hoped to get to
Moonee Valley on Friday night to see ‘Black Caviar’ record her 17th
straight win, but decided it would be too much & after reading about the
crowds clamouring to gain entry, it was a very wise decision.
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