Life can be like this every now & again!
There were eight of us at breakfast last Sunday trying out Gary Thomas's Woodshed Café. Everyone enjoyed their time together, the ambience got a tick & it was fun to have completely different breakfast meal offerings. So we are off there again this morning & hope we may have found a new home for some time.
Afterwards, we came home, gave the boys big marrow bone quarters to chomp on & drove to Strathmore to spend time with Leanne. Once again she was very organised & looking forward to our visit - we brought some French Vanilla slices, but she had arranged a platter of fruit, cheese & meats and set the dining table so we could sit there for our meal. Wes did everything on his list that needed doing & I spent most of my time on her laptop trying to make it run more smoothly & efficiently.
Lewis & Morse content to bask in the sun after eating their bones
We arrived home in time to catch most of the AFLW Collingwood vs Melbourne game at Victoria Park, where the Pies were too good for the Dees. I can't believe that, after 4 years of mediocrity, we are finally looking good, playing like a team & sitting on top of the ladder for the first time.
On Monday we had a good School session, which we are going to continue tomorrow. We decided to look at a 10-year plan & Wes has been working on it during the week, and we will make some serious decisions about our future soon. Afterwards, while he watered & gardened, I did some more painting. We both tidied up for a Zoom chat with Mike & Linda at midday & had a great catch-up.
Mike Kirby's Christmas gift of a ride in a special Porsche
Once every four weeks, I have three Zoom/Messenger sessions in a row on Tuesday morning starting with Jeff Hoolihan in Torksey Lock, Lincolnshire; moving on to Leanne Saundry in Strathmore, and finishing with Jan Pengilley in Maleny on the Qld Sunshine Coast. This involves three different kinds of weather, and we are constantly amazed at how different our lives are. In England they are just entering Spring, while we are enjoying Autumn, which is the prettiest season in Daylesford. In Strathmore there is never enough rain, and it always seems to be a few degrees warmer than us, while in Maleny it is always hot, humid & either dry or enjoying torrential rain.
Lovely family photo of our God-daughter, Greta Millman, with her husband, Harry Ellsmore & their children, Jeremy (2) & Penny (8)
While I Zoomed & then had my nails done, Wes did heaps of painting & knocked over most of what was left to do on our dog decking & stairs. Lewis & Morse are not interested in painting at all & leave us alone when we get started, which is a bonus.
On Wednesday, Dot & Judi joined me at Muffins & More for a fun morning of chatting & playing Mah Jong - more chatting than serious playing, which is making it difficult for Judi, who is still a learner to remember all the rules & her favourite hands. Dot & I can remember how we felt when we were learning this wonderful game 20 years ago & are empathetic.
The next day we awoke to discover that Daylesford had been bombed with ChillOut decorations. Although this is a much smaller event than in the past, with COVID making large gatherings impossible, everywhere looks very festive & welcoming.
After our walk, supermarket shopping & a great chat with old friends, Kathy & Karen, I settled down to get my computer work up to date and succeeded. My brain works best in the morning and that is when I try to do everything - quite often tiring myself out. The big drama was a flat tyre. I noticed on the way to Coles that the car was making a noise, as if a branch was caught underneath. When I got to Tonna's I looked under the car, and then discovered the flat front tyre. Adam Tonna very kindly pumped it up for me at the next door BP service station, which got me home. Wes removed the tyre, after finding the spare & jack (never used before), and took it to Jamie, our local tyre man, who declared the tyre was damaged & ordered a replacement which arrived 24 hours later.
That night we opened the first jar of my plum chutney to have with our Atlantic salmon on English muffins & it got a big tick of approval. Thanks to Glen next door for sharing her produce so generously.
Friday was a cool & windy day, not an easy one for asthmatics, so I spent it inside, apart from our early morning walk. There are always lots of jobs to be done like cleaning the silver, washing, ironing & general tidying. There was so much sport to watch in the afternoon I was spoiled for choice - 4th Pink ball Test between India & England, which has been rivetting; 4th T20 between NZ & Australia, which we won easily, setting up an exciting 5th & deciding game today; a good win by the North Melbourne AFLW team against Richmond, & a close win by the Richmond AFLM against Collingwood in a practice match.
Yesterday we invited Rob & Dene to spend time with us while there was an Open House happening at their place. It was a lovely catch up & Lewis & Morse enjoyed seeing them as well. Apart from that, Wes & I caught up on chores before I settled down to watch a similar amount of sport to the day before.
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