We very much enjoyed our Sunday
with Kathy & Ged Lazzaro, which started at the Sunday Market – Yvonne was
pleased that Kathy had the right money for her purchases & Ged was happy to
put Marjorie’s fruit & vegetables in her car for her. After dropping the boys
home & putting away our fruit & vegetables, the four of us headed to The
Food Gallery, where we met Barbara & Jan for breakfast. Aileen
popped in later to share a coffee. We had lots of very funny conversations,
including some vintage John Hardwick stories.
Kathy & Barbara
above & Jan, Wes & Ged below
We had offered the Lazzaros a trip
to Trentham & they liked the idea, so we drove there via the Wombat Hill
Botanic Gardens. We enjoyed walking along High Street, window shopping, buying
Dutch Cream potatoes & finding a tiny Sunday Market at the Trentham Railway
Station. After a drive around looking at the new estates, (as the population
has doubled over the past decade), we went to Chaplins for
cuppas, a chat & a shared late morning tea. Bettina Ralph has a
photographic Exhibition at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, so we popped
in to admire her work. The hotel was nearly full with lunch-time parties of
family & friends, and we had to manouveur our way around the tables.
Kathy, Ged &
Wes in conversation
Our week has been unexpectedly busy. We had planned
a quiet one after last week, but things crop up & it has been good to be
able to help friends by walking a dog, collecting parcels, delivering wool to Keeping
Daylesford Warm in Wheatsheaf, and catching up on phone calls &
emails.
We did see some kangaroos & a wallaby early one
morning when we went to Leitches Creek to pump mineral water. Fortunately,
Lewis & Morse didn’t react – Bilbo & Frodo used to get very excited
indeed!
My brother, Peter, rang on Monday to see if I was
going to the footy next Friday night, and if so, was I able to get him a
ticket. I was & did. It will be lovely to share time with him.
I spent a day with Leanne, who had needed a new
modem for her laptop & was able to install it and assure her that when NBN
arrived, she wouldn’t need another new one, as it was exactly the same as the
modem we got with NBN. Wes accompanied Barbara to an appointment in Ballarat
and did a few chores while they were out.
Our daffodils finally emerged from hibernation
& Morse promptly started removing their heads. We are doing our best to
discourage this behaviour, which ranks along with digging up camellias, weeing
on the seaside daisies and removing fronds from fledgling tree ferns! Lewis
does very few of these things, but he likes to play with & chew up sticks
of all shapes & sizes, preferably from Wes’s woodpile, which is not a
popular move either.
Yesterday, we had a lovely early walk around Wombat
Hill Botanic Gardens. While Wes looked after the boys, I collected about 50
pine- cones, which are in abundance & lovely when we light our fire. I
spent the day washing, ironing & cleaning silver, with occasional stops for
pots of Jasmine tea & crosswords. Wes worked in Ancestry before heading out
into the garden and potting up geraniums. We were both glued to The
Coodabeen Champions, who always entertain & amuse. Their interview
with Peter Daicos was very special indeed.
Happy 80th Birthday Jeff!
(L-R) Jeff, Archie, Kelly, Amelia, Mike & Kev Hoolihan, Simon &
Leigh Murrin
This morning we are off to the Sunday Market and
then breakfast at The Food Gallery, where we will be joined by
Barbara, Janine, Jan & Glen. Lewis & Morse spent a lot of time deciding
what to give Daddy & eventually chose chilli chocolates from Sweet
Decadence, where there is still a framed notice from 2004 celebrating
the birth of chilli chocolates at the request of the then Mayor, Warren
Maloney.
Happy Fathers’ Day to all of you out there
celebrating. We’ll raise a glass to our much-loved Dads – Ray Maloney &
Perc Saundry.
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