Once again, we started
our week with a fun breakfast at The Food Gallery. Sandy was in a
mischievous mood, telling funny stories, and we all enjoyed ourselves. Pasquale
& Andrew were looking exhausted after one of the busiest second term School
Holiday period I can remember. We tried without success to stay awake to see the
One Day World Cup Final and the tennis and woke on Monday to discover that both
events had been dramatic & exciting victories to England & Novak Djokovic.
On Monday morning,
while Wes finished pruning the roses, I went back to The Food Gallery,
to meet Judi for a catch-up cuppa. We were joined by Bronwen Scarffe, which was
lovely. When Wes & I were Rotarians, we had dinner with Bronnie &
others most Wednesday nights & I have missed seeing her regularly. George
Jackson had his table in the window, with Max Primmer & others having
cuppas or late breakfasts with him.
When I came back home,
I had enough energy to do some more book-culling. The Primary School Book Fair
is only 3 weeks away, so I needed to get cracking!
We had a delightful
visit on Tuesday from old friend, Annie Smith, her daughter, Fiona, and her
grand-daughter, Chloe. Lewis & Morse were in heaven as Chloe spent the
whole two hours cuddling & playing with them. We think it was the best day
of their lives!
Morse, Chloe &
Lewis having fun on the decking
On Wednesday, Wes had
his second Reconciliation Committee meeting, which went well, and I played Mah
Jong with Dot at Muffins & More, which was doing a roaring
trade despite the drizzle & cold. That night we were very sad to hear from
Stuart Anderson that his mother, Marie, had died peacefully that afternoon. We
are so pleased we visited her last month & only sorry that I hadn’t been
well enough for a second visit to the Castlemaine Nursing Home. Marie was a
wonderful & inspirational woman. We met 20 years ago when U3A Hepburn Shire
was starting & she & I took many classes together, as well as spending
time at Ballarat learning how to create a suitable website.
Marie with her family
– sons Ross & Stuart & Stuart’s wife, Robyn
It was Wes’s turn to
spend a day with Leanne, so he headed off on Thursday morning, which was
blissfully dry for a change, although our backyard is still a mudheap. He was
able to help her with quite a few jobs that are too much for one person to do,
and I am sure they had plenty of laughs when he told her the latest stories
about Lewis & Morse.
This was taken after
they were towelled down when we returned home on Wednesday morning
The rest of the week was
delightfully sunny & warm after cold mornings. Wes spent time in the
garden, caught up with phone calls & worked hard on Ancestry & stories
of his family. I am busy knitting small jumpers for Keeping Daylesford
Warm. Barbara gave Wes some brightly coloured wool for me and there has
been enough for jumpers for a change. I will make matching beanies as well.
Wes & Morse happy
together – one reading & the other zedding!
Now the footy has been
another matter this weekend. Carlton looked comfortable winning against Gold
Coast, but Collingwood was jumped by Greater Western Sydney & never
recovered from an 8 goal to 1 first quarter. We’ll be lucky to finish in the top
4 at this rate. Brisbane are looking the goods with another gutsy win & are
2nd on the ladder, which nobody predicted.
Daylesford has made
the ABC TV news this week with the decision by Council to remove the geese from
Lake Daylesford. The community is divided with lots of us in favour of keeping
the geese, as they are part of the landscape & a great tourist attraction.
The rest are of the opinion that as the geese are tame, not wild, they don’t
belong here & damage the ecology of the area. I think their removal is a
fait accompli, but I know we will be sorry to see them go & have always
enjoyed feeding them & chatting to them.
Christmas morning
treats
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