Dear Friends, it’s been a very quiet week for me as I
started to feel the beginnings of a cold while we were at the MCG last Sunday.
We had a wonderful time there, with fabulous seats, a great lunch beforehand,
and a catch-up with Bill & Chris Waterhouse during the tea-break. We met
Bill & Chris on our first Cricket Tour in 2008 and have stayed in touch,
seeing each other when we have all been in Brisbane and/or Melbourne. When
Mitchell Starc bowled Brendan McCullum with the fifth ball of his first over,
we all realised that it was going to be tough for the Kiwis to make a big
score, and that we were all deprived of seeing one of the Captain’s wonderful
aggressive cameo innings. And so it came to pass, with a splendid innings by
our Captain, Michael Clarke, playing his last One Day International game for Australia,
which we won easily, if not as graciously as most of us would have liked.
By the time we arrived back here in Daylesford I had no
voice and was feeling quite unwell, so took to bed and didn’t really get up
again until Friday, when I got dressed and was taken for a drive around the
area in lieu of our traditional Good Friday walk. I spent the week resting,
reading, doing crosswords and trying to build up energy reserves. It did help
that the footy had started again and my favourite commentator, Gerard Whateley,
was back on Fox Footy nearly every weeknight & on the ABC radio for many of
the matches. Sadly Carlton was unable to keep up the good form it showed
against Collingwood in the practice game, or even the good play it managed in
the first quarter against Richmond on Thursday night. Wes is very disappointed
and has decided that the coach, Malthouse, that he and many others thought
would be the saviour of the Blues, needs to go.
Wes has had a very busy week – looking after me with lovely
meals, doing the shopping, gardening, walking Bilbo, showing ‘SpongeBob...the
Movie’ at the Daylesford Community Cinema in the Rex Arcade, training someone
else to be a projectionist, and somehow keeping up with Facebook, emails and
Ancestry. He spent time with Barbara as usual on Wednesday morning, and has her
front garden looking good as well.
Yesterday we had a lovely lunch with old friends at the
Farmers Arms Hotel here in Daylesford. Danny came and stayed the night and will
be joining us for breakfast today before driving back home. We watched the
footy together, and were very thrilled that Collingwood could hang on for a
slim victory against Brisbane at the Gabba.
We were shocked to read of the deaths of two friends during
the week – Charlie Diluca, who we first met in the 70s when he and his wife, Jan,
were next-door neighbours to Tom & Lib in Rosanna, and Noel Hinks, who we
met with his wife, Helen, on our first Cricket Tour in 2008.
As well, our friend, Jan Smith, has been in hospital, where
she had an operation on her back. She didn’t recover as quickly as the doctors
would like and we were all very worried about her, but her husband, John, says
she is gradually improving and if the Saints can have a win this afternoon, I
am sure that will brighten her spirits.
Very old photo of
Lake Daylesford looking back into town
As I sit looking outside into the back garden on our first
day without Daylight Saving, it is frosty with mist rising from Lake
Daylesford. The rosellas have discovered that Fawlty Towers has lots of seed
again, the roses are having another burst of bloom, the rosemary is making a
pretty hedge in-between the rose bushes and the seaside daisies are looking happy
and contented as they frame the pathway.
We wish everyone a very happy and safe Easter and I promise
a longer letter next Sunday!
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