Last Sunday we had a successful visit to the Market, followed by a lovely breakfast at The Food Gallery. It was so good to see Pasquale, Toni & Neeto, as well as friends Robert & Deb, who just beat us in & had the table by the window. Wes had his favourite breakfast of poached eggs, bacon & tomato sauce, while I had one of my favourites - the rosti stack with poached eggs & smoked salmon. Pasquale was so excited he made us all extra hot drinks, which we couldn't finish as I was due back home by 9.30am for a Zoom chat with Leanne. She is always very patient if I keep her waiting and I was only in trouble because Lewis & Morse were upstairs with Wes, who was reading The Age, instead of being down in the study with me saying hello to her.
We had quite a storm during the night with thunder & lightning & a few mls of rain, so decided not to walk early, much to the delight of Lewis & Morse, who really appreciate an early breakfast. I went back to bed with a pot of tea & The Age. We had planned to do a refresher course on reconciling our accounts in Reckon, but the latest Visa statement hadn't arrived in time. We postponed School until Tuesday & got started on our next big project, which is cataloguing & labelling our paintings, at the same time as moving them around. We're starting in our bedroom & working from there. I suspect this will take a few weeks!
More front garden glimpses
Judi & I were delighted to be able to catch up in person for brunch at the Food Gallery instead of via Zoom and spent a very happy hour chatting & enjoying our tea & food. That night the Pies just weren't good enough to beat ladder leaders & Minor Premiers, Port Adelaide, so we have to travel to Perth and face the West Coast Eagles there after some time in quarantine.
It was wet again on Tuesday, but we were able to walk, along with a handful of hardy locals, before the rain set in. I had a morning on the phone chatting via Zoom to Leanne & to Terry Borg. Later on Wes had a long chat with Bob White, and then relaxed while I cooked dinner for a change. We were able to start watching shows that have been waiting for a break in the footy - Singapore Grip, Halifax Retribution and White House Farm. The boys were impatient to go to bed and couldn't wait for the first episode of Halifax Retribution to finish!
Barbara Simpson sent us all an email letting us know she had moved into her new home in Inglewood, NZ, and was getting settled. Here she is chatting with Wes from her new space. She is collecting Bobby, her cat, this week, and hopes to get her car from Auckland very soon as well.
On Thursday, after doing the shopping & changing the sheets & towels, I found myself rapidly running out of energy and back in bed for a couple of days. Wes was wonderful making meals & G&Ts, as well as looking after Lewis & Morse. On Friday afternoon we were lucky enough to have 20 minutes of snow - not heavy enough to last, but very pretty while it swirled and floated.
Yesterday I was able to get up & dressed and felt much better than I had. We had hoped to make a serious start our Operation Artworks project, but that has had to be postponed - hopefully we can make a start this coming week.
We're off to breakfast with Judi & Janine at the Food Gallery, after we visit the Sunday Market. Pasquale can't have big tables indoors yet, so we are starting back on our Sunday Breakfast routine in a small way. Very exciting indeed!
Our last daffodils, including some erlicheer, which were supposed to have arrived first, but dragged their feet!
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