We started our week with our usual trip to the Sunday Market and Wes walked Morse through the stalls to Jeff the Dog Treat man, with only one other dog to cope with, which was done successfully & rewarded with a treat. I had been due to go to the MCG for the Collingwood vs Carlton game that afternoon, but I was still feeling tired & not up to the train trips & crowd, so stayed home & made vegetarian minestrone soup for our dinner instead.
It was a stunningly good game with a great atmosphere (80,000+) & the Pies were very lucky to survive a last-minute assault by the Blues & win by 4 points. Wes & I watched from separate rooms, and when the game was over, he emerged & congratulated me by producing the Maloney Cup. He was delighted with the fightback his team had shown.
Me with Morse & the Maloney Cup
It's been a busy week for all sorts of things:
- Zoom chats - me with Leanne twice, with Terry Borg & with old friends, Kathy, Lib & Karen. Wes spoke with Barbara twice, as well as Jenny Beacham, and persuaded the Rethink the Rex committee to meet by Zoom as it was so very cold.
- We spent School watching an interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival with the amazing, intelligent & caring author, Ann Cleeves, talking about her newest character, Matthew Venn, and his first book, The Long Call. Here is the link if you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3YyuyHIJ0
- We had snow for the first time this year on the last day of Autumn. There wasn't enough to settle on the ground, but the flurries were beautiful & places like Bullarto & Trentham got enough for a carpet.
- Later that afternoon, our gas ducted heating system stopped working, leaving us freezing. We tried everything we could think of, eventually turned off the system & lit the fire instead. As we were going to bed, Wes turned it on again & it fired up. We have the name of a firm in Castlemaine who can service this system, which we will get done this week. I guess after 18 years, it is entitled to have a hiccup.
- We had organised to replace the old Mystar box in our lounge with a new free IQ4 box, which Telstra sent quickly, assuring us that we would be able to install it. We managed everything except "free to air channels" as we couldn't connect the aerial. I enlisted the aid of Paris at Daylesford Mitre 10 & she showed me how to do it successfully. We have immediately started watching the Shetland series from the beginning & will move on to Endeavour and Vera and I may catch up on Call the Midwife. As well, we can watch footy replays of any game at any time, which is a huge bonus.
Morse getting very comfy with a friend & a rug
- I had enrolled in an 8-week fitness programme, Spring in your Step, through the Springs Medical Centre & this was the week to start. I went for an assessment on Wednesday & had my first class on Thursday. I have missed Barry's gym, which closed during COVID, as I was used to exercising twice a week, as well as daily dog walks. The idea behind this programme is to get the participants fit & able to manage with exercise regimes that can be done at home. It was good to get back to a structured class & I knew at least one of the other participants, Liz, who used to go to Barry's gym too.
- Meanwhile, Wes drove to Castlemaine to attend Fay Hungerford's funeral. John & Fay have been long-time friends, and we often chatted with them both at the Food Gallery. They ran Newlyn Antiques, as well as a nursery. Fay had been unwell for some time & died peacefully last month. John promptly caught COVID & the funeral had to be postponed.
- Yesterday we had an early breakfast at Cliffy's in Brigadoon weather. There was misty rain when we woke, too much to risk walking in, so we gave Morse breakfast instead & a bone when we went out. We haven't been able to find the bone since, so perhaps it has been buried too! Our breakfast was lovely - Laksa eggs for me & porridge for Wes - both looking & tasting wonderful. As we were leaving, the tables were filling up with groups of women having a Girls' Weekend & not too sure that our weather was what they had in mind!
- Rob & Dene came in for a visit, armed with Smackos, which thrilled Morse to bits, as well as the cuddles & pats. They will be putting everything in storage on 24th June, which isn't long - we are going to miss them both and hope that our new neighbours will be even half as good.
I found this wonderful photo of Perc, my dear father, with our nieces, Jessie & Michelle, taken on Christmas Day 1980 - he just loved being a grandfather
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