Last Sunday was a very cold & chilly morning &
everyone was careful driving to breakfast. Judi stopped to help a trader from
the Sunday Market, who had hit a kangaroo & couldn’t drive his car; Barbara
had to avoid black ice as she travelled in her electric wheelchair & Janine
reported seeing more kangaroos & wallabies than usual on her journey in
from Musk.
At the Market itself, it was very quiet at 8am & lots
of regulars were late. We arrived to find Bilbo’s shredded cabbage waiting for
him, but that wasn’t enough. He wouldn’t walk past Geoff, the dried dog treat
man, without something & Geoff obliged. Then Bilbo smooched up to Ken Rae
from Spring Park Nursery & wouldn’t move without a pat or three. We
eventually arrived back home & he turned his nose up at the celery offcuts!
Me
enjoying English toffee ice-cream after our fish & chips in Triabunna,
Tasmania
In the afternoon, we visited Jane Barrett & John
Webster to admire the new home they have built on a beautiful block in Western
Avenue, Hepburn Springs. Alan & Linda Stroud had also been invited & it
was lovely to chat with them over tea & cake with the sun streaming through
the windows.
Apart from gym on Monday, I spent a very pleasant time
catching up with good friend, Rhonda. We haven’t seen each other properly in
ages & it was lovely to share our stories in the warmth of The Food Gallery. The sun shone again
in the afternoon, which gave me a chance to wash our very dirty little Mazda 2
before my next trip to Melbourne.
Wes has been in the garden a few times this week – he has
planted 200 daffodil bulbs; weeded; mulched & enlarged some of our garden
beds. I emptied the remaining two planter boxes & put most of our herbs
into the greenhouse to help them survive Winter. Things like the Winter
Savoury, the Basil Mint & Pennyroyal all seem to thrive in the cold frosty
weather, so there are still plenty of herbs for the chef to pick.
Judi advised me that it is now possible to buy a permanent
Senior’s NSW Opal Card, so Wes & I applied for them online. In the past you
had to apply 2-3 weeks before you travelled & they only lasted 60 days,
which was very restrictive. Even though we have no plans to visit Sydney, we
would like to be prepared when we next do, as it is possible to travel all day
there for $2.50 as a Senior.
Wes
tucking into sardines at Artifakt Café, Swansea, Tasmania
On Tuesday afternoon, just as Wes was congratulating me on
being so much healthier than at the same time last year, I could feel a very
rapid head cold coming on. Sure enough I have been confined to quarters ever
since as it travelled rapidly into my chest & seems determined to stay put.
Wes took Barbara to the Regent Cinema to see The Bookshop & lunch afterwards at
the Art Gallery of Ballarat to
celebrate her birthday on Wednesday. After he arrived home, he started to show
signs of having caught my cold. So, we have both been under the weather for the
rest of the week.
Fortunately, he has been able to do the Friday supermarket
shopping & this morning’s Sunday Market, as well as cook meals, for which I
am very grateful, as I haven’t been up to anything much at all!
I’m disappointed to be missing this afternoon’s big game
against Essendon at the MCG with one of our best-loved players, Steele Sidebottom,
playing his 200th game for Collingwood.
Bilbo can relate to this Snoopy cartoon – one morning he
refused to get out of bed until after 9am – even the lure of a treat wasn’t
enough to drag him out into the day. Can’t blame him with these -2° starts.
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