For some reason I had a burst of energy & made another pot of minestrone, baked a fruit cake, cooked rice & pasta for Lewis & Morse for the week, and did sundry other kitchen activities such as filling up jars with pasta, biscuits, muesli etc. It was quite a relief when the footy started & I could sit with my knitting & the open fire. Sadly the Blues weren't able to beat Melbourne, but a four-goal loss to the ladder leaders is a pretty good result. Essendon had a narrow win over Freo in the earlier game & West Coast were far too good for Adelaide in Perth.
Quintessential Winter photo of Lewis & Morse
On Monday morning, we were about to start School, which was focussing on poetry when Carole Hardwick rang to say John's cancer had spread & he wanted Wes to know. Wes immediately decided to drive down the next morning & join John at his usual Tuesday morning tea at Chew Chew in Moonee Ponds. This got me thinking that I could go with him & visit Leanne instead of waiting until next Monday & that was appreciated by Leanne.
Our visits went well - Leanne & I solved computer issues together, while Wes was a very welcome guest at morning tea & John really appreciated him making the trip. We got back here in the early afternoon, in time for me to keep a facial appointment with Emma - my first since February, so we had lots of news to share with each other.
The next day I had a Zoom chat with Terry Borg, who had very kindly agreed to postpone our usual fortnightly Tuesday chat, so we could go to Melbourne. Wes joined me & we enjoyed a fun catch-up before I headed off to play Mah Jong with Dot & Judi. This week's innovation was little rubber fish for us to brandish when we were 'fishing', which is the step before going Mah Jong. Meanwhile, Wes did more painting of the windows & doors on the decking & finished it off on Friday, as well as getting a first coat on the outside of our bedroom window.
Thursday was another social morning - after walking, shopping & making a pot of tea, I had a catch up with Kathy & Karen where we shared some wonderful laughs & reminisced about the knitting & crochet we had all done over time (Kathy & I were the knitters & Karen the only crochet star). This was brought on by a lovely photo sent to me by Joyce Spiteri, letting me know that tops I had knitted many moons ago were being used by her daughter, Jess, to clothe her twin sons, Oliver & Ethan, who turned 1 that day.
My next chat with by phone with old friend, Sherryn Danaher. It was so good to hear her voice & it will be lovely to see her if I can persuade her to Zoom next time! We caught up with some of our news until it was time to go as I couldn't stop coughing! Around that time we finally received the texts from Springs Medical Centre that we have been longing to get - flu injection appointments for us both, which is happening at 11.20am today.
It was freezing on Friday when we did our two circuits of Lake Daylesford, frost crunching under our feet when we crossed the bridges and no-one around until just before we finished at 7am. The sun was out by the time we were ready to take the boys socialising, after I had another Zoom call, this time with Leanne.
Wes with Morse at the Virgin Café
Yesterday didn't go quite to plan. We set off driving to the MCG to see Carlton play Hawthorn & discovered that the huge traffic hold-up we encountered after an hour was due to the Western Freeway being closed for 4 days. Apparently lots of us were completely unaware of these roadworks & it became obvious that we would not get to the MCG on time as Ballarat Road couldn't cope with all the traffic. We turned around & drove back home, arriving at the end of the 1st quarter. Lewis & Morse were delighted to see us, as they thought we would be gone for hours, which was why they had been given huge bones.
Glen took this wonderful photo of Lewis staring through the fence at her yesterday afternoon
We ate our sandwiches & drank our tea from thermoses as we watched the rest of the game & saw Carlton beat the Hawks by 4 goals to record a very welcome win. The next match was worthy of a Grand Final as Adelaide won by 1 point over the previously unbeaten Melbourne at the Adelaide Oval. We were absolutely exhausted for some reason & only lasted a short time watching the Doggies & Saints. We were shocked to see this morning that the Western Bulldogs beat St Kilda by 111 points.
We're just back from a very cold walk around Lake Daylesford & are heading to the Sunday Market, before catching up with Judi, Janine, Glen & Glenda for breakfast at Woodshed Café. Then we are having our flu injections & we'll see how we feel after that whether we head off to see Collingwood play Port Adelaide at the MCG (via the Calder Highway this time).
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