Dear Friends, as you can imagine, I
am rather excited with Collingwood making it into the Grand Final for the
second year running. The match on Friday night was an incredible game, so fast
and furious, but fortunately low-scoring which enabled us to snatch a win right
at the end after Buddy Franklin kicked a goal that deserved to be the
match-winner. David, Danny & I were all over the moon, as were Greta and
Lauren, who were also at the game but in a different stand.
We had enjoyed a meal together at ‘The
Carringbush’ before the game, in a vain attempt to settle pre-match nerves.
Danny parked at his work, then we walked to the ground, which is always fun as
you see supporters who are even more nervous than you are. We had great seats
on the wing again with a perfect view and the weather was kind. The atmosphere
was electric, with a loud buzz of noise throughout the game. We three had just
about decided we couldn’t win, when suddenly our players found an extra yard
and Hawthorn’s players started to tire and get caught in tackles. When we got
back to Danny’s he opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate one of the great
games of footy this year.
Yesterday morning before I drove back to Daylesford, we had breakfast in Northcote with Greta, then Lauren, Travis & Myles came to visit, which was lovely. I had hoped to visit Viva on my way home, but I still have a head cold and she preferred I didn’t visit in case I gave it to her.
Lovely photo of Viva taken in 95 at Leanne’s graduation
This morning we’ve enjoyed another
lovely breakfast at Café 3460, where Kim spoiled us with a wonderful array of
goodies yet again, even though there were only 6 of us. Judi, Michael and Glenn
are off to see the play, ‘The History Boys’ at the Williamstown Little Theatre
this afternoon and Wes is going to do some more painting of Art Show screens at
the Rotary Shed. I had hoped to go, but I don’t think paint fumes and head cold
mix very well together.
Wes had an exciting lunch on Friday –
a lady from Maldon had been in touch to say she and he were related and she
wanted to get together, so her invited her and her daughter to lunch as well as
his sister, Denise, and his cousin, Glenn. Sadly neither Glenn nor the daughter
was able to come at the last minute, so he invited Barbara over to share in the
lunch and enjoy the conversation. I had an appointment in Ballarat which
prevented me from being there and then I drove straight to Melbourne that
afternoon. Wes has given Dee about 1,200 photos and she has given him access to
20 years of work on her family tree.
We’ve had a busy week yet again with
the Rotary Art Show, as well as having dinner with John & Jan Smith at
Mercato on Monday night. They needed to talk through some things that have been
happening in their lives and this was the perfect place to do it. Wes had to
take the Brian Nash painting to Ballarat for repair as the frame had been
damaged when the painting was on display in Vincent Street during the week. He
was able to arrange for it to be repaired very quickly and it is back in our
guest room.
Dot’s mother, Cath, died on Tuesday
morning. Dot is relieved that her mother is no longer suffering but she is
going to miss her dreadfully. She and John popped in during Mah Jong to chat
with Carol, Valerie and I and to arrange for Kim to cater for the wake on
Friday lunchtime. I was sorry to miss the funeral service, but couldn’t easily
change my appointment.
On the Wednesday night, Rotary celebrated its 58th
birthday and about 8 former members turned up, which was wonderful. We had a
good meeting, which was addressed by Denise Longmire, the first female member
of Daylesford Rotary and its first female President. John Savage, a former
President, who has been ravaged by a stroke in recent months, also attended
much to everyone’s delight as he was a very popular Rotarian.
Typical Rotary Meeting
Wes and I were fortunate to have a
visit from Petrus Spronk on Thursday morning. He is a world-renowned sculptor
and ceramicist and we are lucky to have him living in our community. Wes would
like him to agree to be celebrated at our Art Show, but he is a very modest man
and may not like it. He showed us a wonderful DVD of his work in the forest,
which he had prepared for the U3A ‘Blooming Art’ opening party at the Convent,
which was also on Friday night. We were blown away and I hope the 120 guests
who saw it were amazed as well. ‘Blooming Art’ another successful U3A event
under Judi’s leadership involved floral arrangements complementing art, both at
the Convent and in shop windows.
After his visit I went to Café 3460
for a casual lunch with Judi and then onto Hepburn House, where Graeme Boscoe
was hosting his ‘Difficult Crime Writers’ class. We had an interesting and
spirited discussion as usual and have another class to look forward to next
Term.
So tomorrow we head off to Melbourne
for the week with a few lovely activities planned including the Coodabeen Champions
Brownlow Night at the MCC with Mate; the launch of the MTC 2012 Season of
plays; breakfast with Squiz; lunch with Lovely, Malcolm, Ron & Margo; the
footy on Saturday and finally Joan Testro’s birthday party on Sunday afternoon
on our way back home. Enjoy your week and I’ll be back in touch in a fortnight
or so.
vs
May the better team win!
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