Charlie Brown finds Sally hard to help!
We started our Sunday with a fun visit to the Daylesford Market and came home laden with fruit, vegetables and eggs. Afterwards I visited Glen with produce for her and we had a good chat, in which the footy & cricket featured heavily.
School on Monday involved rewriting our Wills, which we had hoped to leave until January, but changing solicitors meant we really should update immediately, and we were able to simplify our Wills, as we have a list of our Artworks & other valuable items, with suggested beneficiaries, which can be attached to our Wills. We hope this removes the need for us to make small alterations. We now have copies of everything in our safe & on our computers, and can forget about all this stuff for another twelve months or so.
On Tuesday morning, Les Groundwater came to look at the list of jobs we had for a handyperson, and declared he could do all of them, much to our delight. Morse was thrilled to see him again, and got in the way as Wes took Les around our house. I am particularly pleased that he can replace a skylight that fell in the upstairs bathroom some years ago - we have had no idea how to fix it and he is going to replace the covers on both skylights. He is also going to do some serious repairs to the downstairs bathroom, as well as patch & paint walls, replace tap washers and repair possum damage on our bedroom ceiling. Yippee!
Morse recovering downstairs with his squeaky unicorn & stripey bone toys
I spent time with Glen during the morning as she has had a setback in her recovery and isn't as mobile as she would like. I was able to get her a new tag for one of her dogs, and some yummy gluten-free biscuits to cheer her up. She asked for photos of our hellebores and I took some of the plants at Lewis's grave.
While Judi & I played Mah Jong on Wednesday morning, Wes vacuumed & washed all the floors, which dried quickly because of the unexpected sunshine we have had through much of the early part of this week. In the afternoon he visited his sister, Denise, with afternoon tea, to celebrate her birthday, and returned with six beautiful camellias that Denise had propagated, which we will plant in Leanne's garden.
On Thursday morning I had my regular weekly Zoom with Old Friends - Lib, Karen & Joyce. They appreciated my story of donating my latest beanies to the Salvo's Red Shield Shop & being thanked profusely for a change. It certainly has inspired me to knit more for them.
Some of my latest beanies, most using 4ply alpaca knitted double
Since Tuesday, Les has visited us every day and slowly but surely things are getting fixed. He's a problem solver and loves the challenge of working out how to fix our issues so they stay fixed. He started by re-attaching the Collingwood Flag to the flagpole, and has moved through the house doing the small jobs and working up to the bigger ones. We are very comfortable with him here, especially as Morse is so relaxed around him too.
On Friday night, Carlton beat Collingwood comprehensively much to the delight of all those Carlton supporters who have suffered over the past few years. Wes was thrilled to bits, and we watched the last few minutes together once the result was a foregone conclusion. I thought the Pies looked tired and that may have contributed to their lacklustre game, but there is no excuse for poor kicking in front of goal and we did that far too often.
The Maloney Cup with Carlton in the ascendancy for a change
Charlie Curnow, who kicked 6 goals & Captain Patrick Cripps very happy with the result
Yesterday was a quiet one after the very late night watching the footy and then some cricket, where Australia ended up with a slender lead on the 1st Innings. Wes took Morse for a walk before the mist came down and blanketed the sky for some hours. Amazingly I had enough energy to make a batch of vegetarian minestrone soup, which Wes declared was my best ever. We enjoyed it while watching footy & cricket. The footy had quite a few upsets where more fancied teams were beaten by sides lower on the ladder, which means the final eight is far from clear.
We woke to discover the Poms were 9/389, which is a formidable total for Australia to chase. It will be interesting to see if we can get the last wicket quickly and then either attack the total or play safely for two days.
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