We enjoyed our trip to the Sunday Market last week & are about to head off there again. Yvonne had lots of goodies ready for us, probably to say thank you that we travelled to her place & spent $50 the previous Sunday when the Market was cancelled with only 24 hours notice. We came home with enough food to feed an army & enjoyed sharing with Glen, Rob & Dene.
One of the last vases of daffodils - Golden Ducat & Erlicheer. I have always preferred King Alfred & Golden Trumpet daffs, but Wes bought these beautiful double blooms & their only fault lies in their heads being too heavy for the stalks, so I just have to pick them & bring them inside, where they last at least a week. What's not to like?
That afternoon, Rob & Dene delivered the making of lemon curd & rhubarb tarts - 2 small ones for afternoon tea & 2 larger ones for sweets. We very greedily managed to eat both our tarts at the appropriate time & enjoyed them very much. We will miss these wonderful friends & cooks next door when they leave Daylesford.
Monday was freezing with hailstones at least twice during the day. All plans to be outside were cancelled and we settled down to School, where we looked at all the advantages of our new phones together. We're finding Your Phone Companion a big help as well & using it to download our photos, answer texts & keep up to date with COVID news easily. As well, I'm loving being able to have Favourites on the Service Victoria QR code reader & finally being able to add another person, rather than duplicate the work when we are both visiting a site.
It was cold on Tuesday as well, and after I enjoyed lovely long chats with my sister, Leanne, & our friend, Terry, we settled down to watch the film "Stiff" starring David Wenham on ABC i-view. Author, Shane Maloney wrote a series of 6 books with his hero, Murray Whelan, originally an assistant to the local Labor MP, set in the late 80s & 90s. They are based in Brunswick & two were made into films by the late John Clarke in 2004. We loved watching the film & felt very nostalgic as we both spent most of our first 50 years on earth in that inner-city suburb.
Lewis & Morse enjoying the film with us
We have been going for a drive on Wednesday mornings with the boys - as there is no Mah Jong for me, and because we can explore our Shire, we have been enjoying these family trips. This week we headed to Clunes, but had to detour twice as workmen were busy felling unsafe trees or grubbing up roots of trees that had fallen over in the June storms. We ended up taking the boys for a walk on a track just outside of Talbot. The highlight was the sight of canola fields, shimmering like gold in the distance.
Me with Lewis & Morse - they lost interest in posing for the camera - wanted to get into the car with their mattress & pillows!
We seem to have spent a good part of this week solving problems - trying to open Service Victoria accounts; returning orthotics that were posted out to me & look as though they would fit clown shoes; changing my ticket to the Linda McCartney exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat to next month, (when I hope I will feel more like visiting that city), and making new facial appointments now that masked beauty therapists in regional Victoria can treat their customers unmasked.
Beautiful early tulips in Albert Street, Daylesford
We missed out on the earthquake that impacted on much of Victoria, as well as parts of Canberra, South Australia & New South Wales. We were pleased that no-one died, and that damage seemed much less than it might have been.
On Friday, it was 6 months since our dear friend, Joe Rozen, died, so we visited Glenda with flowers & love. We are really missing Sunday breakfasts & catching up with everyone's news. Hopefully they will recommence again someday soon.
Yesterday was spent getting into the swing of the AFL Grand Final, even though it was played in Perth, after last year being in Brisbane. The Coodabeen Champions excelled themselves with an entertaining two hours in the morning and Fox Footy had lots to watch during the afternoon. Finally it was time for the match to start & we found ourselves drinking Cofield Sparkling Shiraz & sharing a cheeseboard - Dees supporters would approve. The game see-sawed until midway in the third quarter when Melbourne decided to take control & kicked goal after unanswered goal to record a stunning win. The Western Bulldogs had no answers and the only consolation for their supporters was that they had plenty of time to get used to the idea that they were going to lose the match.
Dees celebrating after breaking a 57-year Premiership drought
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