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We started our Sunday with a visit to the Daylesford Market, something I haven't been able to do for a while & received a warm welcome. We stocked up on fruit & vegetables & pigs' ears strips before coming home to a quiet day recovering from our trip to Strathmore the day before.
During the past couple of weeks, our pyrex dishes have started exploding in the sink - we've lost a casserole & pie plate, and I've managed to break my favourite big glass vase as well. It wasn't a wedding present, but the others were, and they've lasted pretty well!
On Monday, after putting out bins & doing the shopping, Wes & I watched another Steve Dotto tuition video, where he talked about Google mail add-ons. We really like Boomerang, which enables you to schedule meetings, track responses, and ask for emails to be sent back at a time that suits you. At present, we use the Snooze facility, but this is much more sophisticated, and we can see quite a few uses for it, including pausing your emails.
As it was a cool, but fine day, Wes spent the rest of the morning in the front garden, cleaning the pond, trimming & weeding - the usual never-ending jobs of the gardener. Morse likes to join him at morning tea time, and they sit together on the top of the stairs having a chat about things, while Wes drinks his tea & eats his biscuits.
Exhaustion has set in!
Judi & I played Mah Jong again on Wednesday, and honours were even. She had to leave early for an appointment, so I made one with our local optometrist, Sarah Bibby, as my eyes have been quite sore lately and I wanted her advice. I turn out to have a condition called Blepharitis - Meibomian Gland Dysfunction and the treatment is twice daily 5 minutes use of an eye wheat pillow, as well as eyedrops, which is already making a difference. I arrived back home to a clean floors, which is always a bonus!
Wes had a date with old friend, Joyce Spiteri, in Reservoir, on Thursday, where he had promised to help her with Ancestry.com, and show her how to easily scan her photos. I had an early Zoom with Terry Borg, who was looking and sounding much better than she has for much of this year; followed by an Old Friends chat with Kathy, Karen S & Joyce, where we talked about eyes and the problems we are all experiencing at present. After tea & toast for late breakfast, I worked hard changing sheets & towels and putting the Summer cover on our doona.
Back to Zooming on Friday, with an excellent chat with Leanne, followed by a better catch-up with Jan Pengilley in Maleny, where the internet is very iffy at their place. We gave each other BritBox tips, shared some social news & laughed so much at one point that I couldn't continue until the coughing fit had subsided.
Afterwards, Wes invited me to brunch at Cliffy's, where we used the other half of a generous Gift Voucher from Marilyn & Robert Preston. We were seated at the share table, which means you know everyone else's business! Wes enjoyed bacon & eggs on sourdough, while I had Turkish eggs served with roti. While I was fixing the bill, he then bought me some Oriental lilies at the florist next door, making sure the stems were cut shorter than usual to fit in our second best vase!
Yesterday, we had been invited to a catch up lunch with Warren's nephew, John Anderson, and his wife, Dannielle, at The Pig & Whistle hotel in Trentham East. I wasn't able to get there, but Wes went, while I had a quiet day here, stewing pears for us, and making dog soup for Morse with the leftover vegetables from the week. By the time Wes arrived back at 3.30pm, I was in bed, watching the races on Caulfield Guineas day. He had really enjoyed his time with John & Dannielle, caught up on their news and that of their 4 offspring - Malachi, Kalarni, Dublin & Irish, who are all doing well.
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