Time for Sally & Charlie Brown again!
We've had a very busy & social week for a change! On Sunday, after I published my Dispatch, we went to the Daylesford Market to get fruit, vegetables, eggs & dog treats. Once that was successfully done, we came home, and Wes bathed Morse, while I washed our goodies & put them away. We were both tired from our visit to Leanne the previous day and elected to have a quiet time reading papers & books & cuddling Morse!
Our first roses for the season - Munster Wood, Guy Savoy & Perfumed Passion
On Monday, Wes had a birthday, and he had decided to bake a whole trout for our lunch. He seems to do this kind of cooking very easily and it made for a beautiful, relaxed meal, sitting looking out over Lake Daylesford & the Wombat Forest. Before lunch, we spent some time looking at Dottotech's 5 favourite free apps, and learnt about Google Forms, which we hadn't used before.
Baked trout with asparagus & Dutch cream potatoes
Over the past few years, we have had a tradition of celebrating birthdays with Bob White, and this year was no different. We took him to The Pig & Whistle Hotel in Trentham East back in March, and he shouted us lunch at Jackie's on Vincent on Tuesday. We enjoyed an excellent meal each, washed down with Captain's Creek rosé. We were amazed to discover when chatting with Jackie's wife, Lisa, that she had her fifth child on Grand Final day. Their oldest is 12 and now they have another beautiful little girl. She assured us that 4 girls & 1 boy is enough!
Old Friends are the Best Friends
Before going to lunch, I had Zoomed with Leanne, and then tried chatting on WhatsApp to see how that went. We both enjoyed it and will try doing it again. It offers similar extras to Zoom, including the ability to share screens. Later in the morning, we Old Friends were finally able to Zoom with Libby in Gladstone, with the help of her daughter, Becky. We all enjoyed the chat very much, and Becky has offered to facilitate it once a month, which we appreciate.
On Wednesday, it was time for my fringe trim, followed by Mah Jong with Judi at Muffins & More café, which was surprisingly busy & noisy, mostly full of locals, including Les Pitt, who hasn't been well after a fall. Everyone was thrilled to see him & say hello & welcome back. As it wasn't raining, Wes was able to do the floors, and I came home to a very clean house.
Flowers from our garden with Rhododendron blooms from Bob
The next morning, I had an early Zoom with Terry Borg, and caught up with her news - her younger daughter, Laura, is returning from Thailand, having adopted two of the many young girls she has looked after during her time there. We had a lovely chat, and normally I would then catch up with Old Friends, but we had spent 40 minutes together on Tuesday, so cancelled our regular get-together. As a result, I kept feeling I was forgetting to do something important!
Beautiful dogwood coming into flower
Friday was windy - Wes did some trimming, weeding & mowing, while I chatted with Leanne & then Jan Pengilley in Maleny. We had a dreadful connection via Zoom, so tried WhatsApp instead, and it was much better. I was so pleased I had experimented in using it earlier in the week with Leanne.
At lunchtime, we headed to The Convent, where we were catching up with old friends, Di Lyttleton & Jeff Bain, who had brought their sister-in-law, Sue Lyttleton with them. We had been to Sue & Vin's combined 80th birthday party on 1st March this year, but had never met Sue before, and until Friday, never had a conversation with her. We thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her, and had some wonderful chats, many of which were started by our surroundings, as Marija had put us in the former Mother Superior's Parlour, which was perfect!
Sue, Di, Jeff, Wes & Karen
The 1st Ashes Test in Perth had started while we were at lunch, so we tried not to look at the score, and watched on delay, until we caught up around 5.30pm. What an amazing first day - 19 wickets, with Starc the destroyer in the Poms' first innings, and Stokes, Archer & Carse putting the fear of God into the Aussies in our first innings.
Yesterday we had planned to visit the Daylesford Show, which is always fun, but I was too tired after our busy week, so Wes went into the garden, while I read Saturday's Age newspaper, did crosswords & relaxed until Day 2 of the Test began at 1.20pm our time. Then we were glued to the TV as we watched the Poms fold for 164, followed by an amazing innings by Travis Head, who opened with Weatherald, and hit a swashbuckling 123 off 83 balls, aided by Marnus Labuschange, who looked good on 51 not out. The only thing wrong is that the Test finished so quickly - we were looking forward to 3-4 days of intrigue.
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