It was a beautiful day last Sunday and we enjoyed our trip to the Daylesford Market, coming home with lovely fruit & vegetables to get us through this week. Wes spent the morning in the front garden, trimming, weeding & enjoying all the splashes of colour from hellebores, tête-à-têtes & English daisies.
It was too wet to walk on Tuesday morning, so I had a lovely catch up chat with my aunt, Jeff, and her daughter, Leigh, who was at Torksey Lock with her husband, Simon. Jeff had enjoyed an indulgent holiday, firstly with her son, Michael, and family; followed by a stay in a Windsor Hotel next to the castle with my brother, Peter, and his wife, Anka, as well as Leigh & Simon, who had driven her home and stayed for a couple of days. It was Jeff's birthday on Thursday, which she spent on her own, no doubt still recovering from all the spoiling of the previous week!
Top - Leigh Murrin, Jennifer Hoolihan, Peter & Anka Saundry, & Below - Peter Saundry & Simon Murrin in front of Windsor Castle
The rain bucketed down on Wednesday and we thought we would get some snow, but only sleet arrived! I wasn't up to Mah Jong, but Judi was happy to drive from Ballarat to catch up over pots of Jasmine tea at Muffins & More, before doing some chores and having lunch with a friend. Wes very sensibly just vacuumed as there was no point washing the floors.
We had a long-standing commitment to visit Joyce & Manny Spiteri in Reservoir to catch up with them, Kathy & Ged Lazzaro, and Karen & Malcolm Stevenson. We decided I wasn't up to it, so Wes set off on his own with some cheese from Blake's Family Grocers, and the rain eased off as he left. I was able to Zoom with our friend, Terry Borg, after a month, and we were so busy catching up that the Zoom finished before we were ready.
The visit to the Spiteris went brilliantly and everyone really enjoyed spending time together admiring Joyce's beautiful handiwork and Manny's huge garden. I was sorry to miss the catch up, but couldn't have handled all the socialising. Morse and I had a quiet day together and were both very pleased to see Wes when he arrived home with soup & pastizzi from Joyce for my dinner.
We woke to yet more rain on Friday with the promise of snow to come. It was too wet to walk Morse or do anything much, although I ducked out to the Post Office & Tonna's, where I bought our favourite spuds, Dutch Cream, as Wes was serving fresh whole prawns & oven roasted chips for dinner!
When we were alerted to the weather that Victoria was expecting over the next 48 hours, we decided to postpone our trip to Strathmore to visit Leanne yesterday. We've had over 50mls of rain this week with wind gusts reaching 115kmh and lots of damage done locally. We were so pleased yesterday, that we had made the decision, when we woke to discover that our two routes out of Daylesford were unavailable with fallen trees blocking the roads. Our only damage was a rose that came apart from its stake; a piece of trellis that came loose from the fence, and a Green bin falling over in the front garden.
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