Snoopy sounds like a Labrador 🤣
We started our week with a visit to the Sunday Market, followed by a trip to Strathmore to spend time with Leanne. When we arrived, she served party pies & tiny vegetarian quiches with our coffee & tea at the dining room table, which was lovely. We had a great visit, lots of chats, fixed a few issues & helped each other with advice.
That night we watched the Poms be far too good for the Pakistan T20 team in the Final at the MCG. We had bought tickets for this match back in January, never dreaming we would be recovering from COVID & not have the energy to go.
On Monday, School was getting ready for Christmas - we fine-tuned our letter, printed it & bought cards & stamps. We even posted our 4 overseas cards in the hope that they would arrive before Christmas this year!
Wes has spent time in the garden now he has more energy, as well as washing some of our windows (a never-ending job); washing & vacuuming the floors, and cleaning the cars, which were grubby after the rain. I've stewed rhubarb & pears, picked roses & irises, and nurtured all our seedlings in the hope that insects & snails stay well away.
Stunning detail of our foxgloves
We both had appointments that we had rescheduled because of COVID. Wes visited the optician, where he was pleased to discover his eyesight hasn't deteriorated since his last visit. I went to see Dr Ellie with another suspicious growth, that turned out to be benign & was able to be frozen off. I also had my nails done by Juls in Hepburn Springs, and played Mah Jong with Judi at Muffins & More café. On Friday I had a check-up session with Jake, my exercise physiologist, who was happy with my progress & agreed with my post COVID strategy of easing back into it.
We also had a few Zoom chats - I spent time with Leanne; with Terry Borg, who has just returned from a month in Thailand with her younger daughter, Laura; and with Old Friends. Wes chatted with Barbara twice, and caught up with the Overseas crew to discuss the American mid-term election.
On Thursday, we celebrated Wes's birthday with lunch at Bad Habits Café @ The Convent. When we arrived, Marija explained that the café was unexpectedly full, even though there had only been four bookings, and suggested we sit in the parlour, which was perfect. We enjoyed grilled calamari salads, followed by raspberry teacake slices.
Warren & Karen about to hoe into teacake after he blows out his candle!
We made an unexpected trip to Ballarat on Friday to get shoes. Wes had bought a new pair of walking shoes from Nicole at Daylesford Clothing, but she doesn't stock Rockport, which meant I had to visit Faull's, which specialises in all sorts of shoes, including those for people like me with orthotics. Jackie didn't have my size, but arranged for a pair to be sent from their Geelong store & posted to me. Wonderful service!
On a sad note, we were sorry to read of the death of Gael Shannon, who we first met when we moved here in 2000. Gael was the partner of Danny Spooner, whom we had known well at Melbourne Uni, and she was a mover & shaker in the Daylesford & District Horticultural Society, which is where our paths first crossed. During my recent bout with COVID, she & I had exchanged emails & I knew she was terminally ill, but her death came more quickly than we expected.
Lovely photo of Gael taken a few years ago
Australia & England are playing three One Day games of cricket, hot on the heels of the T20 tournament, and so far, the Poms have been unable to beat us. I suspect they are still nursing hangovers after their stunning T20 win, but it is good to see the Aussies playing with skill & spirit again.
As far as AFLW goes, Melbourne will meet Brisbane in the Grand Final next Sunday afternoon in Ipswich, after both teams comfortably won their Preliminary Finals. We're hoping Daisy Pearce can captain the Demons to their 1st Flag, after being such a leader of women's footy for so many years.
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