Once again we had a fun breakfast
last Sunday after walking the boys & visiting the Sunday Market. We had
hoped to go to Victoria Park, Abbotsford, to see Collingwood play West Coast in
the AFLW. However, after the humid weather, neither of us had the energy, so we
watched it from home instead. The Pies had a good win after a slow start and
hopefully will be more competitive this year. I’m thrilled that there are now
14 teams playing, although they don’t all get to play each other yet. We have
to wait for the season to be extended I guess.
As well as the Women’s footy, the
Bushfire Appeal Cricket game was worth watching with some greats of the game
including Tendulkhar & Lara, Akram, Ponting & Hayden, Gilchrist, Lee
& Watson. Also, Nick Riewoldt & Luke Hodge represented AFL footballers
with distinction, Cameron Smith was there for Rugby League & a few of the
women cricketers participated, including 16 year old Phoebe Litchfield, who
batted with Brian Lara, and wasn’t disgraced. Melanie Jones did a wonderful job
umpiring & made sure there was a tie in the end, when Brett Lee forgot the
script & fielded too enthusiastically.
While Wes pruned
& mowed on Sunday, I refreshed all my herb & vegetable pots on the
decking. In front are the chilis, beans & parsley. Behind lurk chives (2
kinds), lemon savoury, basil mint, hot & spicy oregano, marjoram, sage,
French tarragon & thyme. The basil is flourishing in the greenhouse &
there are three other varieties of mint, as well as curry plant, a bay tree,
pennyroyal & golden marjoram happily growing in the garden.
It was raining when we woke on
Monday morning, so the boys missed out on their walk and very happily had an
early breakfast. I went off to gym & Wes spent time cleaning up under the
house rather than get wet in the garden.
Morse & Lewis
doing what they do best!
In the afternoon, I attended a
lovely U3A piano music class organised by Graeme Boscoe. He had chosen a
selection of 8 female pianists, who played works by various composers. A dozen
of us sat happily in the Paddock Room of our Neighbourhood Centre learning
about these pianists & appreciating their work. I find afternoon activities
very difficult, but made sure I was well rested so I could be at this class. I
remain very grateful to Graeme for many years of delightful piano music –
sometimes at his home, occasionally at Coreen & Klaas Kimstra’s place, and
these days at our Neighbourhood Centre. As well as being an expert on piano
music, Graeme is also a Crime Fiction buff, who introduced many of us to
authors from countries we didn’t even know wrote Crime Fiction.
He is personally responsible for
our visiting Iceland, as the very first page of the first Icelandic crime novel
I ever read (‘Jar City’ by Arnaldur Indridason) mentioned in passing
that the Iceland phone book was in alphabetical order by first names. I
immediately wanted to go there & we did in July 2013. We loved Iceland
& havent finished with it at all – museums to revisit, ‘hidden people’ to
find, Northern lights to see, & hot
springs, geysers & volcanos to explore as we didn’t have time in our first
visit.
Wes admiring a
colourful Reykjavik fire hydrant
On Tuesday it was a beautiful
morning, which Wes spent in the garden, working & playing with Lewis &
Morse. I had a cuppa with Annie & Fiona, who had dropped by with home-made pumpkin
dog treats for the boys, and Glen loaned me her 5 series DVD set of Vera
to watch, as we are both such fans.
Tags from the dog treats
In the afternoon Nick Massaro came
to give me a massage & told me he wants to retire in September this year. I
am pleased he can retire, but will be sad if we can’t continue our friendship
of at least 20 years – perhaps we’ll have to meet for cuppas instead. Lewis
& Morse love Nick’s visits as he always brings them a treat.
On Wednesday we did our usual walk
around the whole of Lake Daylesford & then made the boys walk around the
smaller area again. They were worried about their breakfast being late, but
went with the flow & proceeded to sleep most of the rest of the day. I went
off to play Mah Jong with Dot & Judi, while Wes spent time with Barbara.
Lovely photo of
Danny Millman with Jeremy Ellsmore, who is about to turn 1 – where did that
year go to I wonder?
On Thursday, it was my turn to
visit Leanne. I drove through rain & fog from just before Woodend until
Sunbury. The scary thing is how many drivers don’t have their lights on &
don’t realise they are invisible in these fogs. Even on the freeway, more than half
the cars were driving without any lights. I had my lights on full & fog
lights as well to make sure I was very visible & could see in spite of the
conditions. Leanne & I had a good visit with lots of laughs.
On Friday we took the boys out
socialising at 9am outside The Food Gallery. We chatted to a
delivery man, who remembered the boys from his last visit, a few locals, including
George Jackson & Harry, the very friendly Wheaten dog. I had done the Coles
shopping & been to early gym, so was very happy to sit quietly with tea
& toast, spending time with my three boys. One of the young women who
walked by called out ‘chili chocs’ to me as she passed. I had bought my
traditional Valentine’s Day gift of chili chocs for Wes the day before at Sweet
Decadence and discovered that she had no idea they had been designed
with him in mind. I pointed out the plaque that has sat in the café since 2004
& she was quite embarrassed that she worked there & had never spotted
it.
We had about 20mls of rain that
day, so decided to sit & watch early episodes of Vera, which
we enjoyed immensely. Brenda Blethyn is such a superb actress & the series
is so well written & cast, it is a delight to watch again. Wes made us a
beautiful tomato, cheese & basil pizza for dinner – yum!
A little bit of Sally logic
Yesterday Daylesford was very busy
with Motorfest at Victoria Park. The volunteers started work at
7am to be ready for the thousands expected through the gates. We did a big walk
around Lake Daylesford (the main lake twice), and the boys came home to a bath
after their breakfast. They love having a bath because they get bones as a
reward!
Once again we’ve had an extra long
walk this morning but the boys are full of beans & ready to go to the
Sunday Market as soon as we are. Then we are off to breakfast at The Food
Gallery and this afternoon our AFLW teams are playing each other. We
saw some good footy yesterday & hope it is the same today!
More roses- mostly Freesia
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