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Sunday, 16 June 2019

Daylesford Winter Dispatch - Sunday, 16th June 2019

We started our week with a lovely breakfast at The Food Gallery, where Janine was a surprise attendee, just back from a trip with family on The Ghan to the Northern Territory. She had some good stories and we enjoyed sharing them.


Our whole weekend had been based around listening to the results of the ABC Radio Classic 100 composers and we had to forgo much of our usual footy listening as we were spellbound hearing the wonderful music being played. Beethoven won & was celebrated by an hour of his works. We had both picked Tchaikovsky as our number one & he wasn’t disgraced coming in at number 4. Most of the ten I voted for made it into the 100, although Lėo Delibes, creator of the exquisite Flower Duet from the opera, Lakmė, was a surprise omission in my view.


Back: Warwick, Rohan, Terry, Liam, Brian & Anthony                        Front: George, Michelle, Chiara, Michael, Mikaela, Paun, Mary & Dante

Paun, Brian, Liam, Warwick & Rohan Fell all came to Melbourne to celebrate Una Fell’s 90th birthday in Lang Lang. As well they fitted in a visit to Michelle & George, who had invited everyone to their place for a catch up.

I headed off to the MCG on Monday for the Queen’s Birthday traditional game between Collingwood & Melbourne, which was enhanced by the Big Freeze slide. This year the sliders were retired sportspeople, mostly AFL footballers & Nick Riewoldt raised the bar with his wonderful performance as Freddie Mercury.


The Pies played well enough to beat the Demons, who sadly couldn’t make the best of their opportunities.      I caught up with David Castles, who was attending his second game – the first was 57 years ago!

Afterwards I went back to Northcote where I was staying over with Danny Millman. We headed out for a yummy Vietnamese meal and shared a bottle of Rutherglen red to celebrate.

The next day I visited Leanne in Strathmore, where we caught up on news & were able to get some things done before I headed home for a joyous welcome from all three boys. Wes had done a great job being father & mother for 30 hours.

On Wednesday it was probably the wettest day we can remember in the Hepburn Shire. Our rain gauge showed 50mls and there was water everywhere. Sandra came to clean & Wes & I headed to Ballarat to see the film, Red Joan, starring Judi Dench. This turned out to be an interesting & provocative true story set in Cambridge.

We had booked lunch at Tuki in Smeaton to celebrate our 49th Anniversary and what a great decision that was. The fire was roaring, the welcome was personal & special & we enjoyed Tuki trout & lamb washed down by a bottle of St Ignatius Cabernet. Thanks to Jan & Rob Jones for another memorable visit.




On Thursday, Wes caught up with Barbara, who had agreed to the change of day, and I spent some time with Judi, who had lots to tell me. We were at The Food Gallery and knew just about everyone who was in there – one of the joys of living in a small town. In the afternoon I had a facial with Emma, which is always a luxurious pamper at EKO.

On Friday I had set myself the goal of renewing our insurances, which are all due on 1st July. I had been very happy with the insurers we were using until our renewals arrived & the total cost was $600 more than last year. We hadn’t made a claim, & our car are devaluing rapidly, so I decided to shop around. I was impressed with the policies & prices offered by Seniors Insurance Agency and moved all three covers to them, for $100 less than we had paid in 2018.

We both took our eyes off Morse during the morning & discovered he had been getting muddy again

Yesterday we started the day with breakfast at Cliffy’s where Wes had porridge & I enjoyed baked eggs with spinach in a tomato sauce. We came home to chores – Wes washed & vacuumed the cars, while I did millions of loads of washing, mostly dog towels after our very wet week.


We had hoped to get to the local footy in the afternoon, but I was too tired to venture out and baked a fruit cake while watching St Kilda have a narrow win against the Gold Coast in Townsville.

That night, Carlton was playing the Western Bulldogs, a team they had beaten earlier in the year, and by the sound of the crowd at the Docklands Stadium, expected to beat again. The first half was awful from the Blues point of view, but they had a wonderful 3rd quarter & were in front for a while. In the last quarter, the Doggies ran all over them & we turned off the TV, after checking the World Cup cricket, with about 10 minutes to go. When we were finally in bed, I looked at the footy score to discover that Carlton had owned the last 10 minutes, kicking 5 goals, 1 behind & went down by only 3 points. We’ll have to watch the replay of those minutes as it must have been very nerve-wracking.

Big excitement all round as Carlton kicks an important goal!

We’re off to the Sunday Market shortly & then are joining 6 others for breakfast at The Food Gallery. There is more rain expected, but not until this afternoon, so we might both get a chance to do some gardening before it arrives.


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