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Sunday, 16 December 2018

Daylesford Summer Dispatch - Sunday, 16th December 2018




Our dear friend, Warren Pengilley (aka Secundus) died peacefully last Tuesday. His funeral was yesterday & Wes spoke delivered a beautiful eulogy. There was a good turn up & we all enjoyed seeing photo & hearing stories about a man we had only known for 9 years, when he & Jan moved to Daylesford from NSW.

The rest of the week has been good – we celebrated Leanne’s birthday with a decadent morning tea, where she was joined by Terry, Mary & Michelle, who came bearing gifts & smiles. Our thoughts were with Jessie, but we were able to have lots of laughs & share many happy memories.

Michelle, Leanne, Terry, Mary, Karen & Wes

The First Test ended up being a nail-biter with India the deserved winners, but the Aussie tail gave them a run for their money.
Wes & I started our walks around Lake Daylesford again – we are missing the walks we did while we were away & we need to get into shape for Lewis & Morse, who will love early morning walks, followed by treats. On our first morning, we were welcomed back by a gaggle of geese that flapped & honked when we got out of the car.

  



Sadly, this is what greeted us on Day 2 – a terrible mess of cans, food, plastic cups, beach towels & bottles. We tidied it up as best we could.

Another walk had to be aborted as the rain came down – no complaints from us, but we decided getting drenched wasn’t a great idea. This morning we thought we would have a relaxing walk around Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, but someone had been through pruning, so we spent our time moving branches from the pathway.

I finally retrieved the planter boxes from under the house, filled them with soil & planted chillies & parsley. As if on cue, the heavens opened, and we received so much rain that I didn’t need to do much hand hosing.


Of course, the garden was thrilled to receive 80mls of rain & the weeds we haven’t attacked yet are growing even higher but will be easy to pull out once we get stuck into them.

While Wes was honing his eulogy, I have been spending the afternoons watching the second Test in Perth, which has been most entertaining.     

  
The Aussies started well & amassed a good score, and when we had the Indians reeling at 2/8, things were looking very good. However, Kohli is having the sort of innings you expect from the best batsman in the world & it will be interesting to see what happens today when they resume at 3/172 with Kohli on 82.


Warren Pengilley in his library at Daylesford

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