This is another old but beautiful Peanuts cartoon - we are so lucky to have two & most of the time we're all together
Thanks for all the good wishes that came in last Sunday - much appreciated. We went to the Market as usual & came home with far too much of everything, so were able to share with our lovely neighbours. There are still only produce stalls operating, so the Market is quite small & easy to get around. We didn't need anything else as we have enough dog bones to last for three months & plenty of chilli olives for us.
On Monday morning I did our food shopping at Coles as we were out of Jasmine rice for Lewis & Morse & starting to run low on important items like Vegemite, smoked salmon pieces & tonic water for G&Ts 🤣. We decided to spend School uploading various documents that Centrelink required (or else they would stop our pensions) and ran into trouble at the first hurdle. We had each completed a 5-page & 14-page document & Wes had written a covering letter. Once we uploaded the letter into the space for documents, there wasn't room for either of these required documents, (which had to be scanned JPGs or PDFs).
Eventually Wes decided it would be easier to take the hard copies to our local Centrelink sub-branch & deliver them in person. After completing & signing a long document stating he hadn't been overseas & didn't have COVID etc, he was allowed into the office, where three helpful, but idle women, were waiting to assist. When he came back home, he decided to cover our backs by uploading a short letter to Centrelink explaining what we had done. God knows how people whose first language isn't English or who aren't confident or competent with computers & paperwork cope with our bureaucracies!
I woke on Tuesday feeling much better after a good sleep & enjoyed chatting with Leanne, followed by Terry in our regular timeslots. Lewis & Morse had stories for Leanne - wardrobe malfunction on the walk for Lewis & an evil duck who wouldn't get off the path & had to be circumvented for Morse. We keep thinking how lucky we are to have chanced upon two such delightful labradors.
I had hoped to join Wes & the boys on the morning Lake walk on Wednesday, but it was too cold & I was still asthmatic, so gave it a miss & read the Age in bed with a pot of jasmine tea instead! Afterwards, I drove into Vincent Street to visit the Post Office & get some dog biscuits, as well as visit David & Annie Smith's grave to leave some rosemary - it is a year since Annie died & 14 years since David's sudden death.
On Thursday morning, I enjoyed the weekly chat with Kathy & Karen & we were all delighted by some good news that Kathy shared about a friend of hers. Being able to drive 15kms in Melbourne has made a difference to lots of people & it is possible to catch up in parks with family members much more easily, as well as just walk somewhere different.
These photos were taken one afternoon, about 30 minutes apart!
That night Wes had three Zooms, one after the other - a fabulous catch up with cousins; followed by an ALP Members' disability action plan webinar; and, finally a local ALP branch meeting. He took a bottle of good shiraz downstairs with him, which got him through the 2.5 hours.
I had hoped to walk on Friday morning, but it was too cold & I was too asthmatic - couldn't even get out into the garden, where I have cucumber & zucchini seedlings as well as basil & tomatoes to get started in the greenhouse. Wes spent the morning shifting three roses from outside our bedroom to a bed at the bottom of the back garden, in front of our double wisteria, which we hope might bloom this year. Yesterday he moved our four lemon trees into the front as that double brick wall is so warm, it might just encourage them all to fruit at last!
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