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When we arrived at the Daylesford Market last Sunday, Yvonne & Ken were very excited as they had gone to some trouble for Morse's birthday. Morse couldn't believe his eyes and didn't know where to start, but the dog birthday cake grabbed his attention first, before he demolished the pear & carrot decorations.
The item in the right top corner is a treat with Happy Birthday written on it - a contribution from Jeff, the dog treat man
That night, we were all horrified to discover that a car had plunged into people sitting outside the Royal Daylesford Hotel, killing five and injuring six others. A week on, it is still hard to believe - one whole family gone, and another cut in half on a perfect Spring evening on the Melbourne Cup long weekend. Our thoughts are with everyone who was affected by this tragedy - families, first responders & those who tried to help the injured. Daylesford has made the front page of The Age newspaper nearly every day since, as we all seek to make sense of this. Thanks to everyone who contacted us to see if we & our friends were OK - we were very appreciative of your concern.
We spent Monday morning doing School - working out our new laptop and the changes that Windows 11 bring. Of course, there were millions of updates to be done; Norton didn't want to behave, and I couldn't work out how I could log in. All these issues were sorted, and we're very happy with our HP laptop.
Tuesday was Cup Day, so we boxed our four horses in a Trifecta & Quinella and hoped for the best. It was a beautiful morning here, and we planted our tomato seedlings - we have Grosse Lisse, Tommy Toe and Roma and we've put most of them in the greenhouse, with other dotted around in different locations to see how they perform. They can only do better than last year's crop, which was very disappointing. The race itself was stunning with Mark Zahra riding the winner, Without a Fight, perfectly to score his second Cup in a row, after saluting with Gold Trip last year. We didn't get any collects, but were thrilled with the result and the huge happy crowd (84,000+), who enjoyed good weather and some great races.
On Wednesday, we caught up with old friends, Hacy Tobias, and her husband, Jim Brown. We attended their wedding in 1999, but shortly afterwards they moved to Sydney and we moved to Daylesford, so we had lost touch. I met Hacy in the early 90s through Adsum, the women in insurance net-working group, that was such an important part of my life as an Insurance Broker. We saw each other again earlier this year, when we were at adjoining tables in Pancho. They come to Daylesford a couple of times a year from their home in Fairfield, and were very keen to be given a tour of the Shire this visit. Afterwards, we went back to Pancho, where we enjoyed a lovely lunch and catch up.
Beautiful bowl of roses including Friesa, Julia's rose, Munstead Wood, Golden Beauty & Kiss me Kate
We had a quiet day following that busy one, with Oaks Day the perfect distraction. I chatted early with old friends - Kathy, Lib & Karen & we covered a number of topics - families, Cup Day celebrations, the Mexican Day of the Dead and Glenn Maxwell's astonishing 201 not out against Afghanistan in the ICC ODI World Cup, which was the difference between an ignominious loss and an amazing victory. We were all in awe, especially as we had all gone to bed thinking Australia had no hope when we were 7/91.
Afterwards, Gillie Gough dropped by with a pot containing 4 baby gladioli, because she had heard how much we loved them, and they've been planted along the side of our middle level garden bed in the back.
A lovely corner in the front garden - foxgloves, dogwood & a purple rhododendron living in harmony
Morse & I drove out to Spring Park Nursery to get a couple of Japanese Painted Ferns and to congratulate them on 30 years in business. Chris wouldn't let me pay as he is so appreciative of the newspapers that I deliver to them fortnightly. This was a lovely gesture from him & I was very grateful. We have put the ferns in the shaded garden under the decking, next to our wonderful tree fern and they are looking very happy there.
It was very hot on Friday, so Wes watered everything that needed it early, while I had a catch-up cuppa with Judi at Muffins & More. It has been 5 weeks since we saw each other & we had lots of news to share. I bought a couple of the wonderful vegetarian pasties that Leonie had made and had one for dinner that night, while Wes had a meat pie. It was so hot, that we were pleased he didn't have to cook.
Morse wearing my cricket cap as he gets comfy on the recliner
Yesterday we sweltered through a hot night before heading back to Pancho, for breakfast and a chat. The staff were happy to see us again so soon after some weeks away from eating out anywhere! Wes & Morse headed to Tylden to get horse manure after that & I scrubbed bathrooms before settling down with Saturday's Age and the races.
We're off to the Daylesford Market soon, and the weather is much kinder, 5° heading for a top of 18°. Wes wants to manure all the roses and hopes to start in the front garden this morning, while I wash & put away all the fruit and vegetables from Yvonne.
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