With apologies to everyone who missed the Snoopy cartoon last Sunday - Lewis & Morse would agree 100% with Snoopy
We enjoyed an enjoyable start to the week with a bustling, but COVID safe Sunday Market, followed by a delightful breakfast at The Food Gallery, where Pasquale & Toni had created a special space for locals behind a partition, next to the kitchen. We sat at the lovely oval table, which easily seats 6 and look forward to being able to gradually increase numbers as the restrictions ease. In fact, there will be 7 of us at breakfast this morning - a big crowd as far as the Maloneys are concerned!
As Victoria had registered its 9th day in a row of no new cases & no deaths, Premier Dan Andrews announced that all Victorians can visit each other & that premises can invite larger numbers than before. We are understandably nervous about the influx of visitors that Daylesford will receive, but so pleased that families will be able to visit each other again.
Wes & I both spent Sunday morning in the garden - me preparing the pots out the front for cucumber seedlings and him weeding, mulching, mowing & watering a good section of the back yard. Our strawberries are flowering profusely, all the lemon trees are looking better for being fed with chicken manure, the tomato plants all have flowers and the roses are plentiful enough for me to cut enough for vases. Bliss!
Irises, freesia roses, tomato seedlings & strawberries all thriving in our front yard
We have enjoyed some lovely Zoom chats - I've had three with Leanne and Wes has had two with Barbara in NZ. As well we both chatted with Jan Pengilley, & her daughter, Tara, in Maleny - a most amusing & stimulating discussion of local politics, Trump, 17th year old birthday parties with glimpses of Labradors (ours) in the background. I also had a good catch up with old friends, Kathy Lazzaro, Karen Stevenson & Joyce Spiteri, where we swapped stories of how we are feeling with the lessening of restrictions. I don't think I will feel really comfortable until I have been vaccinated against COVID-19 sometime next year.
Beautiful fragrant old-fashioned roses on the dining table
Wes watched a webinar Book Launch by Dr Jenny Hocking, who has been campaigning for years for access to the Palace letters regarding the Whitlam dismissal. It is so disappointing to discover that the Queen & Prince Charles were involved and that due process wasn't observed. It remains a low point in Australian democracy. He also saw another poignant webinar interviewing non-Aboriginal Australians who were placed in orphanages, and the effect it had on them all these years later. The thought of going into aged care homes terrifies them & brings back memories of when they were a number, not a name, had very few possessions and had no choices in their lives.
We had hoped to go for a family drive on Thursday, but I have been tiring easily for some reason (like doing too much), so we postponed our visit to Kyneton and I have spent most of my afternoons very quietly indeed. I am encouraged to pick roses, so you will be getting lots of photos of the vases over the coming months.
Lewis & Morse have got us completely tricked with how they are able to remove plastic pots protecting our zucchini plants without touching the plants or wrecking the posts & wire netting set up to stop them from getting into the beds. My theory is that Lewis holds Morse's hind legs, so he can lean over and grab the pots. What do you think?
It was wonderful to spend time with Dot & John Smith over cuppas at Harvest Cafe. They were both looking well & have been, like us, very sensible during lockdown. We discussed their family as well as the possibility of Mah Jong restarting next year. Also, Wes received an unexpected & very welcome phone call from Adam Turner, Becky's husband, to thank us for the birthday cards we send. He loves being a grand-father to Emily's two beautiful girls, Violet & Matilda.
Took this photo yesterday afternoon - local kookaburra enhancing Rob & Dene's For Sale sign at 80 Duke Street
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