We started our Sunday well with a good visit to the Daylesford Market. I visited neighbour, Glen, who had been in Queenscliff for a few days, and caught up on her news. She was thrilled as she had walked around the lower part of Lake Daylesford without a crutch for the first time - progress indeed. Wes spent the morning fertilising the roses, weeding & trimming in the front garden, which is looking wonderful as a result.
Another beautiful vase of roses - including Peace, Hot Cocoa, Munstead Wood, Kiss Me Kate & Golden Beauty
We had planned to spend School reorganising and cleaning the study, but once the AFL released the dates for the 2024 Gather Round in Adelaide, we decided to go and booked our trip instead, along with quite a few thousand others. We had hoped to stay at Athelney Cottage in Hackney, which we loved last year for Test Cricket, but it was fully booked, and eventually ended up with a lovely apartment next to St Peter's in North Adelaide. We are going to stay in Robe for three nights on the way over, and at a winery in Moonambeel, near Avoca, for two nights on the way back. Morse is booked into Eureka Kennels, which was our first port of call - if we can't have him looked after, there is no point planning anything!
On Tuesday, it was raining, which was very welcome, never too heavy to do much good, but better than none at all. We had booked our first shingle injections that afternoon and went off to have them. We both felt OK afterwards, but that night my arm swelled and bruised. Wes had a chill the next day, and a sore arm the day after, but we both know these inconveniences are nothing compared to getting shingles.
While Wes did the floors on Wednesday, I played Mah Jong with Judi - it seems like weeks since we played, and she expected to have forgotten it all, but instead, wiped the floor with me and won every game! Judi & Michael have recently moved to Ballarat from Daylesford, but Judi is happy to return on Wednesdays, when she can catch up with friends, have appointments and play Mah Jong.
On Thursday morning, Wes had his fortnightly Zoom chat with Overseas Friends aka the Paul Jackson Group which has been going for about 4 years. As well, I had booked a fortnightly catch up with Terry Borg, so I used the laptop in the Guest Bedroom for a Zoom for the first time. It worked perfectly, and I stayed put for my Old Friends weekly chat. Kathy, Lib, Karen & I chatted about a few topics including Mexican weddings, COVID, Christmas parties, Ancestry & birthdays. Joyce came on briefly to give us all her love but wasn't well enough to stay chatting.
Afterwards, while Wes did wonders in the back garden, Morse & I went to Spring Park Nursery to get some plants for the next section of Leanne's garden, as well as a couple of pelargoniums to put out the front of our home. We have a couple of very tall pots and everything I put in them gets destroyed by the cockies. I hope they won't be interested in these bushes, and so far they have ignored them.
We had a wonderful lunch with Bob White on Friday to celebrate Wes's birthday. Bob took us back to the Garden Room Restaurant at Blackwood Ridge, where we were treated like royalty and enjoyed a stunning meal with partnered wines. The garden itself was an absolute treat with rhododendrons and clematis and weeping Japanese maples featuring heavily.
Lovely photo of Wes & Bob amongst the rhododendrons, which line the driveway
Yesterday we had a busy morning as it was time to wash Morse. I did about 6 loads of washing, including all his bedding from his 4 beds and the car, and Wes washed both cars as well. We were very happy to have a quiet afternoon reading, working on our computers & for Wes, a Zoom with Barbara in New Zealand.
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