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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Daylesford Dispatch - Friday, 27th July 2012

This is a special edition of the Dispatch to share the exciting news of the very early arrival of Rosie June Kennedy, who weighed in at 6lbs and surprised everyone, especially her grandmother, Lovely, who is on the Ghan travelling to Darwin with Malcolm.

Travis & Lozza with newly-born Rosie

I’m heading to Sydney shortly, but couldn’t resist getting in touch with you all. It’s been a good week all round as on Monday morning Wes and I finally played a game of golf at Trentham again. It was a beautiful morning with a thin layer of frost on the ground, so putting became almost impossible, but we enjoyed the walk around this lovely course and managed enough good shots to keep us going. Afterwards we visited Gracenotes Café for breakfast, where Jasmine was delighted to see me and gave us a wonderful welcome and Chris cooked a yummy breakfast.

In the afternoon John Smith picked up Wes and they met Rob McDonald & George Killingback at Sailors Falls to walk around disused mines, as part of Hepburn Voices. That night, we were both physically exhausted after our endeavours and were happy to have home-made minestrone soup for dinner and fall into bed.

Wes as interviewer for Hepburn Voices

We have been very busy with the Art Show with quite a few requests for Entry Forms including one from Peru! I have run out of posters to put up in town, so will have to run off a few more, or collect back those that haven’t been put up. Our attitude to this year’s Show is to do as much as we can beforehand so that if Chronic Fatigue sets in we won’t be in panic mode, which happened in the first year when I couldn’t get out of bed for a week before the Show & all the work piled up. We get such a buzz out of this activity and it is so very different from anything we’ve ever done before.

We were very disappointed when Cricket Australia finally released the South African tour details and we discovered the Brisbane Tests is being held on the weekend after the Show, which doesn’t allow us enough time to get all the cheques sent to Artists, thank you letters to Sponsors and the final Budget results to Rotary and the wider community. We are hoping that Jane, David, Terry & Annette will still go and we will be thinking of them.

However, last week, we also got the great news that we are confirmed for the first two Ashes Tests in England in July next year with Premium Sports Tours, the mob we have done our previous cricket tours with. We don’t want to do Barcelona and Morocco that they are offering, so we will probably travel around Scotland & England before the Tests, hook up with them, (including Jane, David & Terry), and then travel back via Iceland, which has become a must on our list of countries the more we learn about it. Hopefully there will be something for non-Puffin eaters to consume while we are there!

Also our lounge suite has been returned from Ballarat, so we are comfortable again and this time we have the addition of two ottomans, which are just the right height for resting our feet should the need arise, and also act as extra seating when we have a large group, which will happen tomorrow when Wes hosts his CARNIVORE lunch in my absence.

Viva tells me that she and Leanne have been on a shopping expedition that lasted 2.5 hours including coffee breaks – she was feeling well enough to get dressed and go out and enjoyed it enormously! While she was doing that I rang Murray Godso, a dear friend from Melbourne, who had dropped out of our lives and he was delighted to hear from me, so we are planning to catch up next time he comes to Daylesford.

Wes and Barbara drove to Melbourne to see her specialist who had some good advice for her; Wes got his photo in the local paper; all four of us turned up for Mah Jong, and Jane survived an unpleasant mouth operation and assures me she will be fine for my visit.

Yesterday it poured with rain all day – Wes & I went out for a hot drink and a catch-up chat in the morning – visited Bocconcini, which is a lovely café/deli in the main street, and bought a yummy cheese to have after dinner last night.


 We had been invited to Frank & Ellis’s 40th Anniversary celebration drinks at 5pm last night, so we collected Carol & drove there early to get a good parking spot. Frank & Ellis have a delightful little cottage on King Street, with very little parking. They had invited about 30 friends and we enjoyed a drink and chat but left before the speeches, so we were all home at a reasonable time. Wes cooked fish with ginger & French tarragon for dinner and we did enjoy our blue camembert afterwards.


Lovely recent photo of Callum Preston & Maureen (Mo)now happily settled in Collingwood












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