Two wonderful photos from Jan Pengilley in Maleny - top is her dragon/bat plant & below is a camellia with a pumpkin vine growing through it & a pumpkin almost at the very top - they do things differently in Queensland!
On Monday, Judi & I had brunch at Bad Habits Café @ the Convent Gallery, where we were brilliantly looked after by Marija as usual. It was quite busy with lots of families looking for something warm to eat & somewhere interesting to explore afterwards. We caught up on each other's news & I was able to tell her that Annie Smith's daughter, Fiona, had rung to tell me the sad news that Maisie had died last week. She became very unwell & had to be put to rest. Fiona is going to bring her ashes back to Daylesford, which is lovely as Maisie enjoyed every minute of her life here.
Maisie at our place with Morse & Lewis last year - all of them expecting a treat
The big news this week is the arrival of Pearl, our new Mazda 3 hatchback replacing Dolly Grey. We had been saving for our next overseas trip & when we talked about it, decided to spend the money on a new car a couple of years earlier than planned. There are no overseas trips in the pipeline until we feel safe flying away from Australia.
Above, Pearl under wraps with a big bow & Below, unveiled. We are still learning all the many features of this beautiful car & are looking forward to driving her to Melbourne later this morning.
While Wes did a U3A poetry session on Tuesday morning, I had a lovely manicure & pedicure with Alanna in Hepburn Springs. I visited Lyndal for a fringe trim on Wednesday & overspent my appointment time talking about her young foal, Sugar, who likes playing with a footy & with sticks when the mood takes him.
We've both worked hard to make sure the garden will be self-sufficient while we are in Melbourne - Wes has trimmed & swept & watered, while I've pulled up all the summer vegetables that have finished & put in some broccolini, Winter savoury & found a spot for our pink rosemary.
We've also done some painting - second coats for me on two of our yellow (rich cream) doors & Wes is doing all the posts he can reach in their original shade (soft mauve). Just in case we needed a distraction, I found a dead rat in the laundry one morning and we were both thrilled that neither dog had done anything to it other than bring it in. We briefly accused our lovely neighbour, Glen, of dumping her unwanted rat, but she assured us she only re-houses live vermin!
Thanks Facebook - this is our Lewis to a t!
On Friday night, we went to bed at half-time in the footy, tired & quite convinced that Collingwood had no chance of winning after a good first quarter, followed by an extremely ordinary second. We woke to discover the Pies had lost by 27 points - not quite as bad as we expected.
Yesterday Wes took Lewis & Morse to Eureka Kennels in Ballarat, dropping me off at Victoria Park to watch the local footy - Daylesford vs Hepburn - the biggest game of the year. Sadly, we were about 10 minutes into the 1st quarter when Daylesford Captain, Josh Cowan, was tackled, fell awkwardly & broke this leg. There was no ambulance at the ground and by the time Wes returned to join me at 3.30pm, it still hadn't arrived (45 minutes after the incident). The game was abandoned as the lights at the oval aren't good enough to allow for playing footy in the dark, which is when it would have finished.
We arrived back home in time to watch the last quarter of the AFLW Grand Final, where Brisbane, in their 3rd Grand Final, finally won, beating Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval in front of 30,000+ fans. We had been barracking for the Lions & were pleased to see them win.
Last night Carlton were disappointing against Port Adelaide at the MCG, losing by 28 points. Most of the games were one-sided, except for the very exciting match between Sydney & GWS, which the Giants won by 2 points in the last minutes, after the Swans had led all day.
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