Horror film for Dogs 🤣 courtesy of FB
We started our week with a very wet trip to the Sunday Market, followed by breakfast at Woodshed Café, where grateful visitors were pleased to find somewhere out of the rain, mist & cold. Our phones kept promising snow, but it didn't eventuate before we headed off to Melbourne & the MCG to see Collingwood do battle with St Kilda.
After an easy drive until we reached the city, we were the last car allowed into Gate 3 of the carpark, and reached our seats with one minute before the game was due to start. What a disaster! Collingwood played as though they all had the flu, dropping the ball, passing to the opposition, kicking points instead of goals & frustrating their supporters to distraction! In the last quarter we got some sort of game going, but it was too little, too late. Wes & I left about 5 minutes before the end, which got us back home by 7.30pm, where two very wet, bedraggled & excited labs greeted us.
Here is a very thrilled Jack Lazzaro after Carlton won at the MCG the night before
On Monday, we had a serious School session, looking at our finances & making decisions about what to do should one of us die or be stricken with a terminal illness. We are both very clear about what we want to do & will probably set in motion the Pension Reverse Mortgage sometime soon, which will enable us to stay at Maloney Folly for a few more years.
We had hoped to have a Zoom chat with Mike & Linda Kirby, after last month's chat was cancelled when Mike was unavailable, but that didn't happen, so Wes got stuck into home chores, dodging the very cold rain & mist outside. The Kirbys' daughter, Lauren, has been staying in Daylesford with her boyfriend, Daniel, over the past weekend & we had been busy giving suggestions for where to eat & what to do.
On Tuesday we headed to Ballarat's Regent Cinemas for our fortnightly outing to see the "Australian" film Buckley's Chance. This is not a great film - made by Canadians, starring that well-known Australian, Bill Nighy, and featuring a pair of Americans who never don a hat during their entire time in the Outback. We entertained ourselves on the way home by counting up the errors and bagging the casting (with the exception of one supporting actor & 2 bit players), direction & continuity. However, the Cinema feels very COVID-safe with all the protocols in place & we enjoyed having an outing.
There was no Mah Jong this week as Muffins & More were so busy with School Holiday trade, so we had the week off. As Sandra came to clean, we put the boys in the car & went touring around our immediate area - Lyonville, Trentham, Tylden, Kyneton, Lauriston, Drummond & Glenlyon - seeing the incredible storm damage along the Trentham Road & lesser damage elsewhere. Lewis & Morse loved going for a drive with us, but were just as happy to come home & go back to their most comfy beds! We stopped at the famous Country Cob Bakery in Kyneton & purchased pies & vanilla slices for lunch.
During the week I had an excellent Messenger chat with my aunt, Jeff, who had not only donned jewellery, a scarf & lippy for the occasion, but also perfume she assured me! She was looking wonderful & the hour flew by. I've also enjoyed Zoom time with Leanne and it will be good to visit her again tomorrow, after three weeks. As well Lovely & I had a frustrating Zoom, as her internet connection was unstable, but it was good to catch up & share news. Next door neighbour, Glen, came in for a cuppa & chat & after being monstered by the boys, managed to have her morning tea in peace.
Although it was cold on Friday we walked 2 laps of Lake Daylesford & took the boys socialising at The Virgin Café afterwards as a reward. The waiter loves giving them cuddles, much to their delight. Here they are with Wes waiting for crumbs from our escargots, which are yet to arrive!
I had a burst of cooking yesterday - soup, poached pears & a fruit cake, as well as some serious cleaning in kitchen cupboards followed by some re-organisation. The boys had barked overnight at a dog staying in front of us & we were both very disappointed with them, as they can usually be talked out of bad behaviour. I decided not to chat to them or cuddle them for 24 hours - not sure this had any effect on Morse, but Lewis was upset. And they did very little barking last night.
Wes was very disappointed with Carlton's lack of effort against Geelong in the afternoon, especially when St Kilda were so competitive against Brisbane and kicked them out of the top 4. I woke at 12.30am to see how Ash Barty was going & couldn't take my eyes off the scores on my phone as she won the third set & became the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong to win Wimbledon. Earlier Dylan Alcott had won the Quad Wheelchair Men's Final - his third Grand Slam title for the year.
We, like the rest of Australia, are very sad for NSW with the outbreak of COVID-19 that has forced them into some sort of lockdown & caused most states to close their borders to them. Our thoughts are with our Sydney friends who are in their third week of lockdown after having enjoyed freedom during most of the pandemic. Fingers crossed that this measure succeeds in getting it back under control, as we don't want to have to live with the virus, but eradicate it.
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