We started last Sunday with a slightly more relaxed visit to the Sunday Market and came home with dog treats from Jeff, as well as our usual purchases from Yvonne. After unpacking & putting everything in the sink to wash, we headed to The Food Gallery for a breakfast get-together with Judi & Janine. We had booked an early table as Pasquale & Toni can only welcome 10 customers inside at present, and it isn't warm enough yet to sit outside, which would be safer. It was very good to spend time together & Janine had thoughtfully brought us some very welcome lemons from her laden tree.
By the time I had put everything away & read the Sunday Age, I was exhausted and ended up back in bed watching the Australian women defeat the NZ Silver Ferns in a T20 game at Allan Border Field in Brisbane. Our wicket-keeper, Alyssa Healy, now holds the World record for the most dismissals by a keeper in T20 games, one ahead of the legendary male Indian keeper, MS Dhoni. Her husband, Mitchell Starc, celebrated with a congratulatory tweet to 'his wifey'.
We had a very successful
School session designing our Maloney Artworks catalogue & the information slip to put on the back of our paintings & other artworks. I took on the responsibility of typing them both up after Wes did the prep work & we have decided to do the catalogue as a Google sheet, rather than Excel, as we can easily work on the same spreadsheet independently.
Jan Pengilley & I had a most enjoyable Zoom chat afterwards. She is looking wonderful & the warm weather & daily swim is really suiting her. We do miss her, but find Zoom chats are a great substitute.
Wes has been able to get into the garden most days, which means that the lawns have been mown, the weeds attacked, overgrown plants hacked back, the chasey track is drying out, and everywhere is looking very lush & ready for the next flowers, which will probably be roses, as the tulips have given us a miss this Spring.
This lovely bag of wool arrived during the week - thanks again to Kathy Lazzaro, who is keeping me going with interesting patterns as well
On Wednesday, when it rained all day, there wasn't much anyone could do. I did my usual deliveries and Wes took Lewis & Morse out in the car with him in search of Dutch Cream potatoes, which he found at RubyGoose Foods in Trentham. This is how the boys reacted once they got back home again.
Lewis preferred a pillow & Morse took the high ground
Judi & I met up for lunch at Larder, which was very enjoyable and may be a weekly event for a while. I came back home to rest & watched the NZ women finally beat Australia when their young 18 year old all-rounder took 2 wickets & scored the winning runs.
All around us our neighbours have been busy - Rob is doing lots of maintenance and upkeep of their home, Ellie is settling in & finding people to help her, and Glen has commissioned a local artist, Issa, to provide her with some garden artworks including her magnificent new letterbox.
The AFL Finals have had us engrossed although we find it hard to last the distance at night, being such early birds. Port took control in their match with Geelong & were never in doubt, while Richmond looked the goods against the Lions, who were more determined and broke a 15 game hoodoo by beating the Tigers. Yesterday, the Saints beat the Doggies in a close exciting match and now face Richmond on Friday night.
Finally, last night, the Pies somehow won by a point against the West Coast Eagles in front of 30,000 fans in Perth. There were some Pies supporters, but they were vastly outnumbered. We couldn't go to bed as the game was so close & so exciting. We now play Geelong next Saturday night. We're quite tired this morning as the match didn't finish until 11pm and with Daylight Saving it means we've had about 6 hours in bed - I couldn't sleep for excitement & I won't be the only one. Lewis & Morse were very happy to be fed and not walked at 6.30am.
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