Dear Friends, it’s overcast Sunday morning as I sit here at my desk looking out over our lovely garden and onto the Lake. We had a beautiful breakfast this morning, enhanced by Lauren Kennedy’s presence. Lozza & two friends have spent the weekend here in a house and she accepted our invitation to share breakfast with us and a few of our nearest and dearest in Daylesford. Kim outdid himself with a wonderful banquet; Gail grabbed the conversation as often as she could, and we let Lozza get in a word or two herself. It was lovely to see Gail & Terry so happy with the arrival of Alexander Matthew, their 4th grandchild, although that happiness has been tempered by the altercation Terry had with a kangaroo in Gail’s new car.
We are both hoping to get a bit more
weeding before getting ready to entertain Glenn & Gillie who are joining us
for an early dinner of roast venison. Wes had wanted to do a barbecue, but we
will be sitting inside if the skies break the way they are threatening. We are
slowly but surely getting back into the swing of a social life after weeks of
being inactive!
The very good news this week is that
Viva is home from hospital. I visited on Wednesday as someone needed to collect
tablets from the pharmacy at the same time as the District Nurse was coming to
assess Viva, and Helena was coming to cut her hair! So I did pharmacy &
Woolworths shopping, this left Leanne free to cope with all the other
activities. I was thrilled to see Viva looking much better than she had in
hospital, but she is still very weak and it will probably be Wednesday again
before I can revisit.
Red rose growing on our standard freesia!
On Monday Wes and I had our first game
of golf in weeks and were pleasantly surprised to find we could still hit the
ball – we didn’t lose any golf balls, Wes shot a birdie, and I got a bogey, so
we were very happy indeed. During the morning his phone died, in the afternoon
my printer died and in between a lost dog came to the front door wanting to play
with the boys. Wes is 10 weeks short of fulfilling his contract with Telstra,
so is without his phone until 21st November when he will get a
Motorola like mine. He likes the large print of the HTC, but has found the rest
of it difficult to manage.
The next day was hydrotherapy in
Ballarat for Barbara and Wes and that went well after a break of some months. I
missed Rotary on Wednesday night as I was exhausted after driving to Melbourne
and back, so Wes represented us both, and said it was a good night. He had
enjoyed a lunch meeting for ROMAC in Bacchus Marsh that day, and had an
appointment in his role as Executor of a friend’s will before Rotary, so it was
no surprise that he was tired the next day.
Lauren & Travis earlier this year
On Thursday afternoon I drove to
Ballarat to have a ‘face rub’ with Sarah, and on Friday, after Wes laid a
wreath at 11am at the Cenotaph, on behalf of the ALP, we went to Castlemaine to
deliver the 6th Raffle Prize to a chap who works at the Castlemaine
Copy Centre, a sheltered workshop, where we had our raffle tickets printed. Afterwards
I took Wes to yum cha lunch there and we met up with Marie Anderson. Then I
introduced him to ‘She Sells Seashells’, a wonderful fish shop, where we bought
oysters and swordfish. Wes poached the fish that night & it was magic.
So many of our friends seem to be
unwell at present – we are thinking of you all and sorry that we haven’t been
in touch as much as we should. Tomorrow we are having lunch with Lovely and
Malcolm at ‘Wombat Hill House’, which will be a good way to catch up with them.
What the rest of the week holds, we’ll have to wait and see.
6 weeks until Christmas – where has
this year gone to? I keep getting cross at seeing all the Christmas stuff in
the shops and the decorations, but I guess it is fair enough with only 42
sleeps to go.
I’ll be in touch again next Sunday.
Thanks for your emails and messages.
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