This is a special
edition of the Dispatch to share the exciting news of the very early arrival of
Rosie June Kennedy, who weighed in at 6lbs and surprised everyone, especially
her grandmother, Lovely, who is on the Ghan travelling to Darwin with Malcolm.
Travis & Lozza
with newly-born Rosie
I’m heading to Sydney shortly, but couldn’t resist getting in touch with
you all. It’s been a good week all round as on Monday morning Wes and I finally
played a game of golf at Trentham again. It was a beautiful morning with a thin
layer of frost on the ground, so putting became almost impossible, but we
enjoyed the walk around this lovely course and managed enough good shots to
keep us going. Afterwards we visited Gracenotes
Café for breakfast, where Jasmine was delighted to see me and gave us a
wonderful welcome and Chris cooked a yummy breakfast.
In the afternoon John
Smith picked up Wes and they met Rob McDonald & George Killingback at
Sailors Falls to walk around disused mines, as part of Hepburn Voices. That night, we were both physically exhausted after
our endeavours and were happy to have home-made minestrone soup for dinner and
fall into bed.
Wes as interviewer for
Hepburn Voices
We have been very busy with the Art Show with quite a few requests for
Entry Forms including one from Peru! I have run out of posters to put up in
town, so will have to run off a few more, or collect back those that haven’t
been put up. Our attitude to this year’s Show is to do as much as we can
beforehand so that if Chronic Fatigue sets in we won’t be in panic mode, which
happened in the first year when I couldn’t get out of bed for a week before the
Show & all the work piled up. We get such a buzz out of this activity and
it is so very different from anything we’ve ever done before.
We were very disappointed when Cricket Australia finally released the
South African tour details and we discovered the Brisbane Tests is being held
on the weekend after the Show, which doesn’t allow us enough time to get all
the cheques sent to Artists, thank you letters to Sponsors and the final Budget
results to Rotary and the wider community. We are hoping that Jane, David,
Terry & Annette will still go and we will be thinking of them.
However, last week, we also got the great news that we are confirmed for
the first two Ashes Tests in England in July next year with Premium Sports
Tours, the mob we have done our previous cricket tours with. We don’t want to
do Barcelona and Morocco that they are offering, so we will probably travel
around Scotland & England before the Tests, hook up with them, (including
Jane, David & Terry), and then travel back via Iceland, which has become a must on our list of countries the more
we learn about it. Hopefully there will be something for non-Puffin eaters to
consume while we are there!
Also our lounge suite has been returned from Ballarat, so we are
comfortable again and this time we have the addition of two ottomans, which are
just the right height for resting our feet should the need arise, and also act
as extra seating when we have a large group, which will happen tomorrow when
Wes hosts his CARNIVORE lunch in my absence.
Viva tells me that she and Leanne have been on a shopping expedition that
lasted 2.5 hours including coffee breaks – she was feeling well enough to get dressed
and go out and enjoyed it enormously! While she was doing that I rang Murray
Godso, a dear friend from Melbourne, who had dropped out of our lives and he
was delighted to hear from me, so we are planning to catch up next time he
comes to Daylesford.
Wes and Barbara drove to Melbourne to see her specialist who had some good
advice for her; Wes got his photo in the local paper; all four of us turned up
for Mah Jong, and Jane survived an unpleasant mouth operation and assures me
she will be fine for my visit.
Yesterday it poured
with rain all day – Wes & I went out for a hot drink and a catch-up chat in
the morning – visited Bocconcini,
which is a lovely café/deli in the main street, and bought a yummy cheese to
have after dinner last night.
We had been invited to Frank &
Ellis’s 40th Anniversary celebration drinks at 5pm last night, so we
collected Carol & drove there early to get a good parking spot. Frank &
Ellis have a delightful little cottage on King Street, with very little
parking. They had invited about 30 friends and we enjoyed a drink and chat but
left before the speeches, so we were all home at a reasonable time. Wes cooked
fish with ginger & French tarragon for dinner and we did enjoy our blue
camembert afterwards.
Lovely recent photo of Callum Preston & Maureen
(Mo)now happily settled in Collingwood
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