Such a snob!
Wow! What a last day of cricket we saw on Sunday. Rishabh Pant was out too quickly, which meant the Indians only really had young Reddy to improve their score, which he did, but only to bring them 19 runs ahead of Australia - a margin that we easily reached for no loss of wicket. There was a good crowd in spite of the short day, and we were sorry to be leaving Adelaide Oval so soon with no further play. Our Day 4 tickets have been refunded, but we would rather have been there.
Wes had sourced a highly-regarded breakfast spot in Hawthorn, which is a very lovely, leafy suburb we had not encountered before, so we took ourselves to The Pantry on Egmont, which had plenty of parking, indoor & outdoor seating and a very interesting menu. Wes enjoyed scrambled eggs & bacon on sourdough, while I ordered the Turkish eggs which came with Indian style cauliflower & an eggplant ragu. They offered Jasmine tea, and Wes said the coffee was wonderful. We bought afternoon tea to bring back with us, and paid for two coffees for someone to drink in the future.
We had planned to do a free tour of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, and possibly visit the Adelaide Art Gallery after breakfast, but I had woken with absolutely no energy, so we stopped at a newsagency on our way back to Athelney Cottage and picked up Saturday's & Sunday's Age newspapers, which was bliss and enabled us to enjoy a quiet day reading instead.
On Tuesday morning, I was ready to go online at 10am to get tickets for the AFL Gather Round in April next year. When we left to go to lunch at Chef Dong at 12.30pm, I had still not been successful. We had an amazing yum cha lunch and when we got back, I tried again, and eventually managed to get them on my phone. Such a relief as we were already booked with Rosie at Athelney Cottage, which was a stroke of luck at the time. Thanks to David Lazzaro for coming up with the right barcode for me and tons of encouragement. Wes was wonderfully patient and came up with an alternate April holiday over lunch if the tickets didn't materialise.
Suddenly the end of our holiday loomed. On Wednesday, we were going to try another breakfast place, but it was on a busy main road, so we drove back to The Pantry on Egmont and enjoyed another yummy breakfast. Wes had poached eggs with his bacon this time, and I tucked into their Hawthorn salad with a poached egg. It also had an interesting selection of ingredients.
We then drove back to the Adelaide Central Markets, where we thanked The Smelly Cheese people for our great experience, bought The Age, returned the bag to the book man, and promptly filled another one, and picked up some fresh fruit to augment our leftovers for dinner. Finally we filled the car with petrol, pumped up the tyres and headed back to Athelney Cottage to pack as much as we could before spending the afternoon reading & resting.
We got away at 7am and had an excellent run back home, arriving here around 3.20pm, after making a few stops. Wes had fed us tea & toast with Vegemite before we left, so we didn't need much more than the water and biscuits we had put on the back seat. Everywhere in the garden had grown enormously and we were grateful to Glen, our neighbour, for keeping our hydrangea, pots & strawberries alive, as we had turned the water off while we were away.
What a relief to open the door to under the house and find the floor nearly dry, with just a few spots still moist. However, after I had done the first load of washing, we found water on the floor in the laundry, and suspected a break in the pipe under the trough! We contacted Gary, the plumber, who agreed to visit on Friday, and tucked into a prawn & olive pizza from Daylesford Hotel.
We had a busy Friday - after Wes vacuumed everywhere & I did three more loads of washing, catching the drips in a bucket, Wes drove to Eureka Kennels to collect Morse, who was delighted to be picked up. The Kennels gave him 10/10 for his behaviour, and so far he hasn't barked or been bothered by anything, not even Gary's arrival. The good news was that the connection had loosened and there was no break in the pipe, however the kitchen mixer tap was leaking, so he replaced that for us, and wondered jokingly if we would be calling him back again yesterday.
Wes & I both spent time on our desktops - I wanted to balance Reckon, which I did easily, and caught up on emails etc that I had put to sleep until our return. I also opened the mail that Glen had collected for us, and found quite a few lovely Christmas cards & letters. Thanks everyone.
Wes had a catch up Zoom with Barbara in NZ, who asked if Gary could visit her as she has discovered a sewerage broken pipe issue under her driveway and needs a reliable plumber! Meanwhile, I suddenly had to give in to tiredness and spent the rest of the afternoon in bed, where I was served fish & chips & a large glass of Charles Melton Rose of Virginia rosé.
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