We’ve spent much of our week planning a trip away before we
collect a pair of young Labradors, probably around January 2019. We want to say
goodbye to some of our favourite places in Scotland; explore a bit more of
Wales; catch up with Jeff & Kev in Torksey Lock; see our friends, Paul
& Pauline in Chipping Norton; stay in Nether Wallop (the first place we
fell in love with when we visited England in 1975); see some shows in London;
discover a little bit of Belgium (on the track of Hercule Poirot), & finish
up in Venice at the Hotel Vivaldi where we stayed with my cousin, Leigh Murrin,
10 years ago. It is amazingly time-consuming looking for & discarding
various types of accommodation, but we have finally found somewhere to stay for
every night of the 7 weeks we will be away.
My job has been to book theatre & music experiences
& we are quite thrilled with what we have managed to find. We leave on 11th
October & return on 27th November, just in time for Chris &
Malcolm’s wedding at the Convent Gallery on Friday 30th.
Latest crop of beanies
delivered to Jodie for distribution this week
Apart from the usual activities, we both visited Leanne on
Thursday to help her with garage & computer issues; we had lunch with Chris
& Malcolm to catch up on their plans for their wedding & watched all
four games of footy. The first three games were very lopsided with Richmond,
Melbourne & GWS winning easily, but the last game, West Coast &
Collingwood over in Perth was very exciting & close until the Eagles took
control in the last quarter & won by 3 goals. The Coodabeen Champions have
dubbed the Perth Stadium, The Boo Factory,
& most of the 60,000 in attendance did exactly that for much of the night!
I’m very proud of the Magpies for getting into the top 4,
but always thought we would go out in straight sets. It will be interesting to
see how we fare against Greater Western Sydney at the MCG next weekend.
Finally, we have
enough daffodils to fill a vase – so happy & beautiful!
We got to bed so late last night that our early walk has
been postponed until after breakfast. I’m heading off to the Sunday Market soon
& even though it is 4 weeks since Bilbo died, I am still not used to going
on my own. He loved Sundays & the ritual of visiting the Market followed by
breakfast until we had to change venue & there wasn’t a spot for him within
sight of us.
Bilbo enjoying
shredded cabbage earlier this year
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