Morse

Morse
Morse & friend

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Daylesford Dispatch - Sunday, 22nd January 2012


Dear Friends, after a week of being a couch potato watching exciting tennis on TV, it was lovely to go to breakfast this morning & be spoilt rotten again by Kim & Gary with a wonderful spread of yummy goodies. Kim told us that CafĂ© 3460 will now not close until 29th February, which gives us 3 more breakfasts than we expected – yippee! We spent quite a bit of time this morning planning Gillie’s Australia Day breakfast. We will have a double celebration, as she announced she is going to retire at the end of March.

During the week I have been receiving lots of messages from friend, Jane, who is in NZ with her daughter, Emily. They are enjoying a lovely time together & according to Jane, Bay of Islands is full of baby boomers! This photo of Emily was taken at a swish restaurant, which they really enjoyed. They spent yesterday at historic Russell, and are planning a visit to mud pools today. John & Jan Smith have been cruising around NZ for a couple of weeks & are arriving back in Daylesford later today. Sadly John has broken his ankle – no further details known!


Last Sunday we went to Candy & Hal’s place for an informal lunch – there must have been close to 100 guests and it was catered for by Gary Thomas, a popular local caterer, with the beguiling business name of ‘Spade to Blade’. We enjoyed some good chats with friends, as well as spending a short time with Candy, who looks the best we have ever seen her. She seems very happy and she & Hal have done wonderful things to their home, ‘Daylesford House’. We met a woman from Sydney who was visiting her sister & partner in Denver, and she was laughing that not only did she not have warm enough clothes for when she had arrived 2 days previously, she didn’t have cool enough clothes for the lunch!

It has been fairly hot all week, which I have found very difficult to cope with and have been lacking any get up and go. Apart from a lovely lunch with Rhonda at ‘Gracenotes’ on Tuesday, and Max Walter’s funeral on Wednesday morning, I’ve really been quite slack – cryptics, logic puzzles, Words with Friends, Holiday Strong & the tennis & Twenty20 cricket have filled my week. Wes went to Rotary, has taken Barbara for the big shop & hot chocolate afterwards, has walked the boys every morning & cooked most nights. He is showing amazing patience and I am very grateful to him. His main project this week has been the garden – it has been mowed and weeded to within an inch of its life and he is currently attacking the garden under the decking, where there is serious soil erosion and hoping to solve that problem. My main contribution has been to pick roses and array them decoratively around the house!
This morning we walked the boys together, which was lovely. Judi is back walking her dogs with Wes most days, and I have been trying to get up early and achieve while my brain is at its best. I took the boys to the Sunday Market as usual, where Yvonne begged me to leave them with her, as they are a talking point for her customers & very good for business. Wes had instructed me to not come home without a rose, so I asked Ken what he recommended and he sold me two beautiful roses for $20 – the early shopper’s bargain. Once Wes had weeded we realised we had lots of spaces for new roses, as well as tomato plants etc.

On Friday we were visited by Steamatic, who were sent by the Fire Claim Assessors to see if they could get the soot marks out of our lounge suite. Craig the Kiwi did a colour test first and discovered that the suite could not been cleaned. He suspects that the damage was done by the first set of cleaners who obviously did not test the fabric first and the colours have bled into the fabric. EEK! We didn’t want to have to get it re-upholstered, but that may be the only solution. We are still living with the burnt floor as the recommended builders have been on holidays and we hope that we soon come to the top of their list of repair jobs. Ditto the painters.

Our good friend, Carol Bruce, has been most unwell again this week, with a few days in hospital suffering a recurring problem. She is now home and we have been sending each other Skype messages as she is not well enough for long phone calls. She was close to needing another operation, but fortunately the doctors were able to solve her problem without that drastic action so quickly after the stents were put in. My aunt, Jeff, is also progressing well, and is getting frustrated with the slowness of her recovery, which is a good sign. Viva is also getting better slowly but surely and we hope to see her on Wednesday. I was going to visit yesterday, but she wanted to sleep, so we have postponed it.
Enjoy your week & I’ll be in touch again soon. P.S. David & Helen Lazzaro’s middle child, Maya, is in a great ‘Buy Australian Made’ advertisement in this week’s Woman’s Day, if you should be flicking through it.

No comments:

Post a Comment