We started our week with our usual walk meeting no-one last Sunday, followed by a lovely visit to the Sunday Market, where Yvonne was very generous with fruit for the boys. They have been enjoying pears & apples as treats this week in lieu of dried ones or biscuits. Then breakfast with Judi & Janine, where we sat happily chatting about many things including COVID-19, wills, Donald Trump, ponds & lakes & the eccentricities of others (it's never us!).
For everyone who missed their fix of Lewis & Morse last week, here they are asleep together - Lewis has his eyes open!
We arrived back home with lemons from Janine - so much fruit that I am running out of receptacles to put it in! After I had caught up on all the texts from Collingwood, Geelong & neutral friends, I headed into the garden, where Wes was already hard at work weeding in the back & later mowing. I had bought 5 punnets of pleasure including carpet petunias, dwarf carnations & purple alyssum & there were plenty of pots ready & waiting for them. My biggest worry was that Lewis & Morse would dig them out, but so far so good.
We were too busy with Zoom chats to have School on Monday, so moved it to Tuesday instead. It was an interesting & tiring time taking paintings down, labelling them & deciding where they would go next. We are quite happy with the changes we have made in our bedroom & upstairs bathroom & look forward to doing some more tomorrow.
Our Weeping Japanese Maple just loving its new home in the front garden
Wes has had Zoom meetings with old friends - Danny, Tom & Squiz; with Paul Jackson in the Cotswolds; with old schoolfriends talking about their druthers; with local friend, Jeff Bain, talking about the American election; with some of his cousins; with Paul, Barry & Mike discussing how America will look in 50 years; and with Barbara, where they were joined by Janine on Monday afternoon.
I've chatted twice to Leanne, caught up with Jan Pengilley in Maleny & spoken at length with Kathy Lazzaro. I also had a lovely cuppa catch up with neighbour, Glen, in Larder, and lunch with Judi Allen & Sue Longley at Wombat Hill House on a perfect Spring day. The service at this cafe always leaves something to be desired & this was no exception. After we had waited 45 minutes for our lunch, Judi checked to discover that "the piece of paper didn't make it into the kitchen". Our meals were labelled express & arrived 15 minutes later!
Wes spent quite a lot of time rescuing a couple of the garden beds in the back that were originally planned for vegetables, but that had to be abandoned as Bilbo & Frodo ate everything before it ripened. He has enclosed them in wire, including wire doors & bought me plenty of manure, vegetable-growing soil & sugar cane mulch. I am planning to make up the beds & plant zucchini seedlings in them today, and have promised him that his labours will be worthwhile. We have left a couple of beds for the boys, so they can stickybeak at Glen's place when she is out in the garden!
On Friday morning, I drove to Ballarat for a teeth clean, which is always very satisfying. It was a mid-morning appointment & the traffic was light both ways, which made the 90 minute round trip more enjoyable than it sometimes can be.
That afternoon we had invited Judi & Michael for afternoon tea - the first time anyone has been into our home (apart from Sandra, our cleaner), since March. It was lovely to sit around our dining table sharing pastizzi, cheeses, pastries, good wines & great conversations. We felt very comfortable with their company as we know they have been careful, as we have. The only issue was the welcome that they received, especially Judi, from Lewis & Morse, who were so delighted that they just about knocked her over in their excitement.
That night we lasted until half-time in the footy, when Richmond & Port Adelaide were level and woke to discover the Tigers had won by 6 points in a tough, close, low-scoring match.
Yesterday morning I visited the Post Office to discover a parcel from Joyce Spiteri, which contained Snoopy & Woodstock that she had made for me. This is a new craft called amigurumi, which I have never seen, let alone heard of - Joyce found it on YouTube & produced these cute little characters. Thank you so much!!!
We had a quiet Saturday after the excitement of visitors the previous afternoon. Apart from a few chores, listening to The Coodabeens and having bets on Caulfield Cup Day, we did very little. It was too wet to walk early, but the boys were happy to sit at our feet, wherever we were, as they were exhausted from greeting Judi, as well as the extra long walk on Friday morning. That night Wes made pizzas & we lasted until half-time in the Brisbane - Geelong game, and weren't surprised when we woke this morning to find that the Cats had finished all over the Lions.
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