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Sunday, 13 November 2011

Daylesford Dispatch - Sunday, 13th November 2011


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.

When I left you last Sunday we were expecting 24 visitors for a soiree – we had 22 including a 3-year old, who learnt all about dogs after Bilbo and Frodo had given him a few kisses. Bronnie & Lee did the catering brilliantly and we had lots of yummy Asian goodies to go with copious quantities of wine and very little debriefing of the Art Show. We had invited John & Russell, who were not on the committee, but never get invited to their wives’ catering appointments and they enjoyed themselves very much. We threw visitors out at 6pm, but somehow or other Jan & Warren; Brian & Roberta were all still here at 8pm, when we seriously threw them out!

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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