We started our week with a good visit to the Daylesford Market, where Yvonne had snuck a salad onion in with our goodies, and had pears on hand for Morse. After chatting with her, Ken & Steve, we went home to wash & put everything away before driving to Strathmore to visit Leanne for the first time in 2024.
We had an excellent visit, with leftover Christmas pudding & brandy butter to fortify us before we drove back home. Wes watered the garden, dead-headed the roses, and weeded a few beds, as well as planting 4 more salvias, which we had picked up for $5. Leanne & I spent time on her desktop, doing back-ups, and attempting to get her a better outcome with Zoom, as she has only been seeing a very small screen.
On our way back, we went via the Maltese Pastizzi restaurant in Bulla Road to get 2 dozen of these yummy treats. The owner took one look at Wes's Carlton top & declared he didn't have any left - when Wes produced the Collingwood carry bag, magically a dozen each of cheese & peas appeared!
That afternoon, I had a lovely encounter with a juvenile kookaburra. He announced himself with lots of laughing and perched on the decking looking for food. You can see the things I lined up for him, but nothing was tempting - meat would have done the trick, but it was all frozen.
Eventually he flew away - but it was fun to chat with him while he was around
The next morning, we walked Lake Daylesford early, before I did the supermarket shopping at Coles. I had asked Wes to help me with deciding which of my Documents didn't need to be kept, and we went through them all, making some sensible decisions, and cutting down the number of items under that heading. Then I headed off for my first massage of the year with Sarah, and Wes put fishing rods & Morse in the car and headed to Newlyn Reservoir. He came home without any fish, but as he & Morse were the only ones there, Morse could have a swim or three.
On Tuesday morning, I had a very good chat with Leanne, who is really doing well this year, followed by an overdue catch-up with Jan Pengilley in Maleny, where the rain has been overwhelming and constant. After that Wes & I went to Springs Medical Centre to get our second Shingles vaccinations, and were pleasantly surprised as we had no immediate ill effects at all. I continued that way, but Wes ended up with headaches & soreness, just like the first vax and spent much of Wednesday in bed.
Judi had invited me to breakfast at Muffins & More on Wednesday morning, which was most enjoyable, in spite of the heavy rain. We had 20mls, which is nothing compared to some parts of Australia, but it made keeping dry almost impossible. I returned home to watch Day 1 of the Adelaide Test against the West Indies, where I fell in love with their number 11 batsman, Shamar Joseph, who hit fours & sixes where others hadn't dared, and then got Steve Smith out, caught, with his first ever ball in Test cricket. He also took Marnus Labuschagne's wicket and declared at the end of the day that he would like to play Test Cricket every day of his life, and say goodbye to being a security guard!
Sadly, the West Indies were no match for the Aussies and the game was over early on Day 3. But they can regroup & give a better account of themselves this week at the Gabba in a day/night pink ball Test.
On Thursday morning I had a great catch up with Terry Borg, as it had been more than a month since we had last spoken. Then it was time to chat with Old Friends - both Lib and Karen were available and the time flew by as usual. My next activity was a manicure with Juls, who is very chatty, but I managed to get her down to 60 minutes, as I wanted to get back home to watch Day 2 of the Test.
We were very sad to learn on Friday morning that our old friend, Murray Godso had died during the week. I had spoken to him in the past fortnight, where he told me he was turning 90 this year and planning a quiet celebration. We met him through Sherryn & Paul Danaher, probably 40 years ago, and loved spending time with him. He did a beautiful job of redesigning parts of our 1880s terrace in Brunswick Road, Brunswick, and then designed some lovely wall units for Viva in her unit in Strathmore, which Leanne enjoys today.
After my early Zoom with Leanne, who had seen Murray's Death notice and let us know, I visited Glen, who was celebrating one year and one day since her catastrophic walk around Lake Daylesford that left her with a shattered leg. We enjoyed a good chat before I headed to Springs Medical centre for my quarterly podiatrist appointment.
Early that afternoon, we received an unexpected and very welcome phone call from Shar O'Reilly, who I met in August 1982, when we both turned up at Victoria Park interested in forming the first women's committee there. Shar was a natural for President, and we were a wonderful team. She has been living in Heathcote for many years and I had lost contact. We have promised each other to catch up again this year, sooner rather than later!
This lovely photo was taken in 1998 - Karen, Shar & Gayle
We had noticed that the film, One Life, was on at 10am at Ballarat, so headed off there yesterday to see it, and are so pleased we did. What a stunning film - a true story, beautifully acted and photographed. Thanks to everyone who suggested we don't miss it, particularly Rod & Joan McDonald, who seem to be on our wavelength with films. Anthony Hopkins & Helena Bonham Carter nail their roles, and the rest of the cast isn't very far behind.
Finally, another piece of happy news - my hairdresser, Lyndal Conroy, gave birth to her daughter, Brynlee, this week. The baby was 10 days early, but looks perfectly cooked and has already been introduced to the world of horses, which is the passion of Lyndal's family, who breed, train & race trotters.
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