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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Daylesford Dispatch - Sunday, 18th December, 2011

Dear Everyone, this will be my last Dispatch for 2011, by the time I write again we will be enjoying New Year’s Day. Daylesford is cool & wet today – we love this weather, but not everyone does! Our breakfast this morning was fantastic with yummy food, exchanging of small gifts and much hilarity. Rhonda joined us, which is always delightful and took some photos, as did Barbara. A small selection is shown here.


Gail’s backview; Barbara; John
We’ve just enjoyed a lovely visit from John, Dannielle, Malachi, Kalarni, Dublin & Irish. They made their annual pre-Christmas trip from Cohuna to visit John’s mother, Denise, and they always pop in to see us as well. Bilbo & Frodo were delighted to see the 4 kids, but were also very pleased when they went and are now sound asleep snoring at our feet, absolutely exhausted!
John chatting to Gail; Jan & Gillie, and Judi & Michael, who were sorely missed at breakfast today.

We were shocked to discover this morning that our dear friend, Carol Bruce, was rushed to St John of God in Ballarat early today with suspected angina. Fortunately both her daughters live in Ballarat and will be able to visit and do whatever needs to be done. Fingers crossed she is OK and will be home for Christmas.

We’ve had an interesting saga with our new dishwasher – after being promised it would be here during the week, we were sad that nothing had happened so Wes bombarded the assessors and claims manager with emails and we were promised a dishwasher on Friday. Sure enough one arrived – but it was stainless steel and the wrong model, so it went back and the right model in white was delivered early yesterday. While I was in Melbourne the plumber came to install it and we are thrilled to bits to have it in time for Christmas. We are so over washing up!!!

We arrived at the MCG just as the MCC Members’ gates opened and got excellent seats in the balcony. Then downstairs to the Hugh Trumble CafĂ© for a yummy dinner and chat, upstairs to say hello to Gayle Gibson and her friend, Heather, and then the Twenty20 match began. We missed the toss of the coin by Elizabeth Hurley, but saw it on TV while we were eating. It was an exciting atmosphere, but David Warner was far too good for the Melbourne Stars – as Captain, fieldsman and batsman he was unsurpassed. Let’s hope he opens for Australia against India in the Boxing Day Test.


The beautifully restored ticket box at Victoria Park – you can enter through the old turnstiles...

I stayed the night at Northcote and drove back here this morning and am now looking forward to having a very restful afternoon after our lovely visitors.

During the week, Wes has enjoyed quite a social time – he went to a glorious 5-hour lunch on Sunday at Di & Jeff’s place, I had been invited, but wasn’t able to get there and went to bed in the afternoon instead. On Tuesday night, Barbara had invited him to the Club 30 picnic dinner by the Lake and they were both pleased when the weather fined up enough to make it a good night; Wednesday was Rotary’s break-up and on Thursday he and Barbara went to the Christmas drinks put on by the Bendigo Bank.

During the week he and Barbara went to Ballarat for an appointment; he tried to play golf but the course was full, and he spent many hours on the computer doing family tree & history as well as receiving some lovely phone calls and emails, and looking after me & the boys. I had a couple of walks into town, got my nails and hair done and went to the Strong break-up lunch with Gillie, where we discovered Judi was also in attendance (we thought she might have had her fill of Christmas activities before she went to Caloundra to spend a week with her family, but we were wrong). It was good to see her and also my friend, Fay, who, like Gillie, has had a knee reconstruction and will be coming back to 6.30am Strong next year.

We have a good week coming up – Wes is playing golf with John in the morning, then we are off to see ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ with Geoffrey Rush; Steamatic are arriving on Tuesday to see if they can get the soot out of the lounge suite; Wes is spending the day in Melbourne with Secundus (Warren Pengilley) and plans to introduce him to Vince & Dom, the barbers in Little Bourke Street, as well as treat him to Pelligrini’s; and I am visiting the dentist and having a facial in Ballarat on Thursday. Before we know it Santa will have arrived and we will sit around a table for 12 with good friends and family and enjoy Christmas lunch together.
We wish you all a very happy Christmas and look forward to catching up again in 2012.

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