Our dear friend, Warren Pengilley (aka Secundus) died peacefully last Tuesday. His funeral was
yesterday & Wes spoke delivered a beautiful eulogy. There was a good turn
up & we all enjoyed seeing photo & hearing stories about a man we had
only known for 9 years, when he & Jan moved to Daylesford from NSW.
The rest of the week has been good – we celebrated Leanne’s
birthday with a decadent morning tea, where she was joined by Terry, Mary &
Michelle, who came bearing gifts & smiles. Our thoughts were with Jessie,
but we were able to have lots of laughs & share many happy memories.
Michelle, Leanne,
Terry, Mary, Karen & Wes
The First Test ended up being a nail-biter with India the
deserved winners, but the Aussie tail gave them a run for their money.
Wes & I started our walks around Lake Daylesford again –
we are missing the walks we did while we were away & we need to get into
shape for Lewis & Morse, who will love early morning walks, followed by
treats. On our first morning, we were welcomed back by a gaggle of geese that
flapped & honked when we got out of the car.
Sadly, this is what greeted us on Day 2 – a terrible mess of cans,
food, plastic cups, beach towels & bottles. We tidied it up as best we
could.
Another walk had to be aborted as the rain came down – no complaints
from us, but we decided getting drenched wasn’t a great idea. This morning we thought
we would have a relaxing walk around Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, but someone
had been through pruning, so we spent our time moving branches from the
pathway.
I finally retrieved the planter boxes from under the house, filled
them with soil & planted chillies & parsley. As if on cue, the heavens
opened, and we received so much rain that I didn’t need to do much hand hosing.
Of course, the garden was thrilled to receive 80mls of rain &
the weeds we haven’t attacked yet are growing even higher but will be easy to
pull out once we get stuck into them.
While Wes was honing his eulogy, I have been spending the
afternoons watching the second Test in Perth, which has been most entertaining.
The Aussies started well & amassed a good score, and when we
had the Indians reeling at 2/8, things were looking very good. However, Kohli
is having the sort of innings you expect from the best batsman in the world
& it will be interesting to see what happens today when they resume at
3/172 with Kohli on 82.
Warren Pengilley in
his library at Daylesford
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