We enjoyed a wonderful night celebrating the 70th
birthday of our oldest friend, Tom Tyrrell, last Saturday night at La Luna in Carlton. There were only 16
guests, so we felt very honoured & enjoyed catching up with good friends,
Danny & Kim, Mike & Kathey & Tom’s daughter, Becky (who flew down
from Qld as a surprise) & son, Paul, who brought his son, Oscar, &
daughter, Macy. Wes had spent the week planning his speech & presented it
to Tom afterwards in a typed dossier which included some great photos.
Back – Bob, Gayle,
Mike, Oscar, Tom, Paul & Jackie; Front – Kathey, Lynette, Becky, Deb,
Karen, Macy, Giovanni, Wes, Kim & Danny
Everyone had stories to share & it was fun to remember
good times, especially from years ago! It was a late night for us as we didn’t
get home until after midnight & saw far too many kangaroos & wallabies
on the roads to ever be able to relax. Fortunately, we didn’t hit any of them,
especially the young wallaby posing in the middle of the turn-off to Woodend.
Last Sunday, Wes had offered to drive me to the footy to
see Collingwood & Carlton play, but we were both quite tired after our trip
to Melbourne the night before & decided to stay home instead. We made the
right decision, even though Wes would have been very proud of how well his boys
played, especially with a couple of early injuries.
We’ve had a busy week – both of us have been to Strathmore
to visit Leanne (on separate days). Wes had a wonderful Boys’ Afternoon with Jeff, Danny, David, Brian & Secundus,
where they watched the Churchill film, Darkest
Hours. By the look of Wes when he arrived home, a very good time was had by
all! He spent Tuesday morning helping Barbara instead of their usual Wednesday
catch up.
I’ve been able to catch up with friend, Gillie, & we
shared a lovely time having breakfast at The
Food Gallery after gym on Monday. Gillie is not long home from a month
visiting her sister, Wendy, in South Africa, followed by some R&R in
Singapore. We talked about both holidays, and the time just flew by. Later in
the week, Bilbo & I had a cuppa with Annie & Maisie in the courtyard at
Larder. We ordered sunshine from
Martin, but he explained his previous customers had requested clouds & we
would just have to wait!
Branching out –
matchings mitts & beanies & the odd scarf!
On Friday, we took my trusty chair, which must be at least
30 years old, to a local upholsterer in Warrenheip, near Ballarat, for him to
replace the material on the seat, which is starting to wear. He told us that
the fabric used had lasted that long because it was something he would expect
to see in a car, not on a typist’s chair.
Beautiful addition to
Vincent Street from David Bromley that we found on our return from Tassie
I had bought tickets to see Tea with the Dames at Ballarat’s Regent Cinema. We had time for a
cuppa in their Gold Class lounge before seeing the film, which we loved. It was
a brilliant idea to bring these four wonderful actresses together & let
them share their stories over cups of tea, glasses of water & finally
flutes of champagne.
Yesterday was so cold I cancelled all plans to do some
gardening & found some indoor chores instead, until it was time to sit down
& watch footy. We lit the fire, which was wonderful & watched games
until it was time to go to bed! The Blues did their best against Port Adelaide
but fell short in the end. The Pies were at the Gold Coast playing a very
determined pack of Suns, who wouldn’t let us run away with the game. I was
amazed to discover that we were second on the ladder after the win. That won’t
last long as we have to play some very good teams over the next few weeks &
I hope we can stay in the Top 8 at least.
Bilbo getting as comfy
as possible!
Today, apart from the usual activities, we have been
invited to visit friends, Jane & John, who have recently built a new house
in Hepburn Springs. It will be good to see what they have done to the beautiful
block they bought, which had a very tiny rental property on it.
I suspect the rest of the day will be spent watching more
footy games (by me at least). I’m knitting scarves at present, thanks to some multi-coloured
pink wool given to me by Leanne & the footy is the perfect accompaniment.
Two Trees beach on Bruny
Island – we stopped here as part of our tour & read the history of this
place, which looks pretty much as it did 200 years ago
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