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Sunday, 9 September 2018

Daylesford Spring Dispatch - Sunday, 9th September 2018


After breakfast last Sunday, we visited the Daylesford Primary School book fair, where we bought 15 books for $45 – bargain! We love supporting this school & the fair is held at this time each year. The books are sorted alphabetically, are in good condition & very reasonably priced. As we left Wes picked up some very yummy home-made treats for a young girl at the front door & we demolished them for afternoon tea.


We’ve spent much of our week planning a trip away before we collect a pair of young Labradors, probably around January 2019. We want to say goodbye to some of our favourite places in Scotland; explore a bit more of Wales; catch up with Jeff & Kev in Torksey Lock; see our friends, Paul & Pauline in Chipping Norton; stay in Nether Wallop (the first place we fell in love with when we visited England in 1975); see some shows in London; discover a little bit of Belgium (on the track of Hercule Poirot), & finish up in Venice at the Hotel Vivaldi where we stayed with my cousin, Leigh Murrin, 10 years ago. It is amazingly time-consuming looking for & discarding various types of accommodation, but we have finally found somewhere to stay for every night of the 7 weeks we will be away.


My job has been to book theatre & music experiences & we are quite thrilled with what we have managed to find. We leave on 11th October & return on 27th November, just in time for Chris & Malcolm’s wedding at the Convent Gallery on Friday 30th.


Latest crop of beanies delivered to Jodie for distribution this week

Apart from the usual activities, we both visited Leanne on Thursday to help her with garage & computer issues; we had lunch with Chris & Malcolm to catch up on their plans for their wedding & watched all four games of footy. The first three games were very lopsided with Richmond, Melbourne & GWS winning easily, but the last game, West Coast & Collingwood over in Perth was very exciting & close until the Eagles took control in the last quarter & won by 3 goals. The Coodabeen Champions have dubbed the Perth Stadium, The Boo Factory, & most of the 60,000 in attendance did exactly that for much of the night!

I’m very proud of the Magpies for getting into the top 4, but always thought we would go out in straight sets. It will be interesting to see how we fare against Greater Western Sydney at the MCG next weekend.


Finally, we have enough daffodils to fill a vase – so happy & beautiful!

We got to bed so late last night that our early walk has been postponed until after breakfast. I’m heading off to the Sunday Market soon & even though it is 4 weeks since Bilbo died, I am still not used to going on my own. He loved Sundays & the ritual of visiting the Market followed by breakfast until we had to change venue & there wasn’t a spot for him within sight of us.


Bilbo enjoying shredded cabbage earlier this year




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