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We started our week very busily last Sunday. After the early morning walk in the cemetery, and an early visit to the Daylesford Market, we came home, got changed and joined our neighbour, James, at Larder, for a catch up breakfast, to hear all about the trip he & Yoko made to New Zealand. They were invited to a Hindu wedding, which lasted for some days, and decided to tour around afterwards, which meant they were away for a month. It was lovely to see James looking very relaxed and pleased with their trip, which he had organised back in October. The meals at Larder were generous and flavoursome and the staff attentive.
James tucking into buttermilk hotcakes & Wes enjoying bacon & eggs with tomato sauce
When we arrived back home, I finished washing & putting away the fruit & vegetables we had bought from Yvonne, then collapsed on the couch in the lounge with the Sunday Age for a couple of hours, as I was still tired from our trip to Melbourne the day before.On Monday, we walked early rugged up because the temperature had dropped and we had been gifted 3mls rain. Afterwards, I went shopping at Coles, then we sat down to School, where I had asked for assistance with two items, neither of which we were able to solve. For some reason I can't open Jacquie Lawson e-cards on my desktop, but they open perfectly on the laptop & my Motorola. Wes doesn't have this problem so we compared our Settings & couldn't find anything different. Fortunately, Jacquie Lawson was able to provide another way of opening cards received. Secondly, our 2 year old laptop can't seem to get Windows 11 updates. Wes had a try, but was unsuccessful, so we have contacted HP to find out why!
It turned into a beautiful day - Wes spent the rest of the morning in the front garden, and I made a boiled fruit cake, which went down well when he had finished working. Everywhere is tinged with green after the rain, and the birds were out in force as well.
We slept well after a cool night and enjoyed our walk at Daylesford cemetery, before I Zoomed with Leanne, and Wes headed into the front garden to trim, weed & mow the edges. At 10am I sat down at my laptop to book a reserved seat for the Collingwood vs Adelaide game next month, and it took 45 minutes. The laptop stuck at NEXT and wouldn't take me any further, and then my phone kept directing me to the Club Members section instead of the MCC. It was a relief to finally snare a seat under cover in the 50 year member section!
That afternoon, we finally had some good rain - it was intermittent to start with, then got heavy with thunderstorms and a bit of lightning and finally stopped after 9mls. Everywhere looked very grateful and there is more on the way later in the week.
On Wednesday, we had a cool walk around the cemetery before I headed to town and Mah Jong with Judi. I try to leave home at 9am so Wes can get started on his vacuuming & floor washing, and this week, I filled in the time by driving to Spring Park Nursery to return the huge tray that Chris had filled with petunias for me the week before. We played a few hands, winning some each and trying some different ones that we weren't so successful with. The café was very noisy with a pair of free-range young kids, and then a bunch of tradies, which made it rather tiring for a change.
That night the Blues beat the Cats by 15 points in a friendly practice game at Princes Park. Wes was delighted with their performance - we can't wait for the footy to start in earnest. Although we are enjoying the Women's Cricket with the series against India nicely poised at present with 2 points apiece. After the men played so dismally in the T20 World Cup, it is good to watch these excellent women's teams playing so well against each other.
It was another cool morning on Thursday and we lost the race to the Cemetery. Every morning we have an unofficial race with the Woodend bus to see who gets to the cemetery first. It's usually us, but we have been beaten most mornings this week, much to the delight of the female bus driver! I was due to chat with Terry Borg on our return, but she had woken with a sore throat and cough, and we had to postpone. However, I was able to Zoom with Kathy & Karen S, and we moaned about progress - specifically the loss of homes & gardens to town houses/units with no trees.
We were very sad to read that John Savage had died last Sunday. When we first came to Daylesford, John ran the Tyre Service, until he had a stroke, and Jamie took it over. John was a Rotarian, a keen racegoer, and a kind businessman. We did enjoy his company and are sorry he has died.
John wearing his good gear!
Then there was good news - Callum Preston & his wife, Mo Wyse welcomed a daughter, Dorothy, on Wednesday. Bobby & Marilyn are delighted to have a fourth grand-daughter, and Mo's 97-year-old grandmother is thrilled to have a namesake!
On Friday, Wes drove to Essendon to meet up with 19 other Old St Bernard's boys at the Royal Hotel for lunch. He has been organising get-togethers for many years, but these days a casual lunch at the pub seems the best way to stay connected. Here are some photos from a very successful get-together.
That evening Daylesford was hit by a hailstorm to accompany heavy rain. The stones were the size of marbles and the noisiest we can remember. We weren't sure if the skylights would survive the onslaught. It rained again later in the evening and I found 52mls in the rain gauge yesterday morning. Our enjoyment of the Women's 2nd ODI was marred by the effect of the storm on Foxtel, which meant we had lots of interference on both TVs. Our team won again, and now leads in the series with one more ODI this afternoon, and a Test next Friday to Monday.
Fortunately we had no damage and when I checked Glen's home & car, she hadn't suffered either. We were very grateful for the downpour and enjoyed a softer walk in the cemetery as a result. We opted for a very quiet day - Wes needed to recover from his trip to Essendon, and neither of us had slept well in spite of the drop in temperature.
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