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Sunday, 16 September 2018

Daylesford Spring Dispatch - Sunday, 16th September 2018



We enjoyed another fun breakfast at Boathouse last Sunday. David Castles was to have joined us, but his brother & friend led him astray & he slept in! Afterwards Wes & I had planned a walk to Twin Bridges, but it was raining & we opted to come straight home & spend a quiet day inside instead.

I had bought yet another rose from Ken Rae, Spring Park Nursery, at the Sunday Market & Wes tells me that we have officially run out of room for any more roses unless he creates another garden bed.



 Apricot Clementine – no wonder I couldn’t resist it!


I’ve started a new programme at gym & it is quite tough – Barry tells me it is the one he does himself. Obviously with much heavier weights! The reps are 4 x 14, which is a mighty lot of lifting of weights, barbells, dumbbells & kettlebells. This current programme aims to boost endurance, which is perfect for someone with chronic fatigue.

We drove to Ballarat to see the Australian film The Merger, about a battling country Aussie Rules side, which recruits refugees to help them out. It is a lovely film which tackles the issue of acceptance from a few angles.

Thanks for all the suggestions & advice for our upcoming trip. We are thrilled that so many friends are interested in our doings & very excited about all the plans we have been able to make. On our third trip to Pitlochry, we are arriving too late to see the plays, but just in time to see the musical, Chicago, which stars all the cast. In Glasgow we have tickets for a Rachmaninov Concert & in Edinburgh, we are off to see Some Guys Have all the Luck, a new musical based on Rod Stewart’s life.

We are off to a 2009 Alan Bennet play The Habit of Art starring David Yelland, Matthew Kelly & Veronica Roberts, in Liverpool. The shows we have booked in London are The Wild Duck featuring Nicholas Day; The Play that Goes Wrong, a comedy with a big cast; A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter starring Jim Broadbent; & The Height of the Storm, where we will see Dame Eileen Atkins & Jonathan Pryce. Finally, we have a concert booked in Brussels & another in Venice to round off our cultural education.

Our cousin & God-daughter, Leigh & her husband, Simon, now live in Luxembourg, where Leigh heads up the European legal division of PayPal & we hope to see them while we are away.  

We’ve been able to walk nearly every morning this week, usually in frosty weather, followed by sunny Spring days. We even did the walk around Jubilee Lake on Friday – our first time since Bilbo died & it was so muddy we were very pleased he wasn’t there getting grubby.
After the walk, I feed the birds back here as it is now light enough for them to be up & about. On Friday I threw in some cheese squares & two young kookaburras arrived out of the sky & spent their time throwing the cheese up in the air & trying to catch it in their beaks. We also enjoy seeing the currawongs eat spaghetti, which they do in approved fashion, just as if they were swallowing worms.



I couldn’t get both kookas in shot as they did their tossing routine, but they are together in the old oak tree!

We had a wonderful catch up lunch with Karen (aka Lovely) & Malcolm at Williamstown on Thursday. We met at The Vault on the Strand, which had great write-ups on Trip Advisor – the service was fabulous, but the food & ambience didn’t live up to expectations. Absolutely no fish & chips on the menu, which is a shame when the water is just across the road. However, we loved spending time together with old friends & chatted about any number of things before it was time for us to hit the road.


My favourite red camellia bursting into bloom under the decking outside the guest bedroom.

The footy on Friday night was most exciting when Melbourne overcame a determined Hawthorn to progress to a Preliminary Final in Perth against West Coast.

Last night, we went to see Collingwood play Greater Western Sydney at the MCG along with 70,000 others. I was amazed & proud that the Pies were able to win, especially after GWS took the lead in the third quarter. Our reserved seats were in the open, so we arrived early & managed to get seats undercover on Level 4. We were sitting talking when an old friend from Brunswick Rotary days, Geoff Noble, came by. It was lovely to see him again after quite a few years. Collingwood now play the reigning Premiers, Richmond, next Friday night, in the other Preliminary Final.

On our way home after the game, we drove through snow flurries from Trentham through to Daylesford & there have been a few flakes again this morning to accompany -2°.


Old friends, Terry, Georgie & Laura Borg on a rare holiday together in Rome


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