Another brilliant Snoopy cartoon
After our early walk & visit to the Daylesford Market, we decided to have a quiet day. Wes was feeling chilly and went to bed to get warm & hopefully improve after a sleep. Morse & I sat in the lounge, and would have been reading the Sunday Age, but it didn't arrive, so I had to resort to saved cryptic crosswords & logic problems for my daily brain teasers. We were very sorry to read of the death of a lovely Daylesford friend, who had been in Trentham Day-care recently. Jean was a great friend of Dot & John Smith, and a member of the U3A Hepburn Shire, and it was always a pleasure to spend time with her. She was 96 years young.
Wes was able to walk Morse early on Tuesday in the mist, while I chatted with my aunt, Jeff, in Lincolnshire, where she was hot & I was kitted out in a beanie & scarf while I waited for the heater to kick in. We enjoyed our chat & the time flew by too quickly. Then I caught up with my sister, Leanne, on Zoom, and we discussed our exercise regimes and her plans for the week.
Spot Morse if you can!
After lunch I had an appointment with my doctor, Ellie O'Connor, and we decided to change from Melatonin to Restavit to see if that helped with sleeping. I was starting to feel like I was getting a head cold, so after I came back home from seeing Ellie, I went to bed, which was the best thing. I tested the next morning for COVID, but it wasn't that, so we agreed a day in bed wouldn't hurt, and it didn't. That night I had the best sleep in ages, so fingers crossed this will continue to work.
On Thursday morning I was able to Zoom with Terry Borg early, and we discussed medical centres and the way they are run these days, often being a one-stop shop, which is so convenient. We are blessed here in Daylesford to have so many medical & allied health professionals under one roof, with the hospital across the road. Then it was time to catch up with Old Friends - Kathy, Joyce & Karen S - Lib rang to apologise as she had a busy day & couldn't join us. I wanted to let Joyce know what a great visit we had enjoyed with her son, Matt, and family the previous week, and everyone else had liked seeing the photos.
I went back to bed after these Zooms as my cold was developing and it seemed the best place to be. Our friend, Les Groundwater, came & took our fire-screen away to weld a gumleaf back on it, and returned it an hour later. He is such a kind person that when he had the use of a welder he remembered about our screen & fixed it!
Friday morning followed the same pattern - up to chat with Leanne on Zoom before she had a blood test, and then a rest while Wes went off for a haircut. I was lucky enough to be in our bedroom when this huge kangaroo arrived at the top of the drive, hopped through our circular driveway and stopped at the end of the street before deciding to hop down the embankment & out of our lives!
While I've been taking it easy and trying to get recover from this cold before it turns into bronchial asthma, Wes has been wonderful - gardening, cooking, walking Morse, staying in touch with friends & family, and keeping me fed & watered. I am very grateful, although I wish I didn't need all the care and could just bounce back the way he does.
Yesterday I decided to return my reserved seat at the Collingwood vs Freo game at the MCG this arvo as I don't have the energy to catch the train there & back, let alone cope with night air. I'll be able to watch it on TV of course, but nothing is as good as being at the game.
Last night Carlton survived a spirited fightback from Melbourne at the MCG to record a win by 8 points in front of nearly 41,000 people. I had gone to sleep at half-time, but woke 5 minutes before the end and joined Wes in the lounge to watch the Blues steady after the Demons got within 2 points.
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