The perfect cartoon for COVID times!
Our week started beautifully with a good visit to the Sunday Market with Lewis & Morse, followed by a most enjoyable breakfast with friends Judi, Janine, Di, Jeff & Peta at Woodshed Café. The rest of the day was spent watching Olympics & footy, with the highlight being Emma McKeon's elevation into superstar status with her 7 medals.
We said yes to a free Telstra TV and devoted Monday School to installing it, only to discover when reading the instructions, that it does nothing we don't already have via our Smart TVs & Foxtel packages. So, if anyone would like it, you are very welcome to it (with the proviso that you need to be a Telstra customer). The package gives you the ability to stream films & TV shows, watch live sport (not AFL) & free-to-air TV. You need a TV with an HDMI port, an internet connection & a TV antenna.
Wes spent the morning creating a new garden bed for our beautiful pair of Pumpkin Patch roses that we bought to celebrate our Anniversary this year. Glen Tandberg has bought us a Greensleeves rose to go in with them, once Spring Park Nursery has supplies again.
We usually like to plan an outing every second Tuesday, and it has been a film at Regent Cinemas, Ballarat recently. However, we weren't sure we wanted to travel in the rain & fog, plus no film leapt up & begged to be seen, so we settled for chez nous instead. While I was chatting on Messenger to my aunt, Jeff, in Lincolnshire, followed by a Zoom call with my sister, Leanne, in Strathmore, Wes produced a short list of 10 films available on ABC i-view & SBS on demand.
Top of the list was the 2010 Mike Leigh film Another Year with a star-studded cast including Ruth Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and a cameo by Imelda Staunton. We had seen this when it came out and it certainly deserved a second look. One of Mike Leigh's strengths is what he knows about us all & we could spot friends, rellies & ourselves in this wonderful slice of life.
On Wednesday, Sandra came to clean & it was raining heavily, so we planned to take the boys to Castlemaine, (where we were promised sunshine), for a walk. It was just as wet there, so we headed to Harcourt, and finally turned off for Maldon, where we were able to take them on interesting paths for about 30 minutes. We saw an old mine, a huge old chimney, some footings for past buildings & ended up at the lovely railway station, where you can catch a steam train. We have done this trip, which goes to Castlemaine, and is great fun.
Morse & Lewis sniffing the jonquils in Maldon
On Thursday, the number of COVID cases grew & it quickly became obvious that Victoria would have to go back into lockdown, which we did that night. We were so pleased we had enjoyed our drive to Maldon, bought some items that would not be available for the next week or so, and had a list of films ready to watch when the Olympics finish.
The footy has been surprising to say the least - Geelong lost to GWS at Kardinia Park, which no-one expected; Carlton were beaten by Gold Coast, and lost any glimmer of hope of finals; and St Kilda picked themselves up & beat the in-form Sydney to be once more in contention for the finals. Collingwood is playing Hawthorn this arvo and I'm not confident.
Finally, we seem to have been blessed with more birds than normal this week. It starts early when the kookaburras laugh at us as we walk around the smaller part of Lake Daylesford. We arrive home to magpies carolling as they wait for their breakfast, and as I write this, there must be 50 birds on our back lawn - all chatting, sharing seed & oats, and dipping their beaks into the bird bath as they leave. Lewis & Morse are safely inside recovering from the walk, breakfast & post-prandial massages from Wes.
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