Time for Peppermint Patty & Marcie again!
Sunday was cold early, but turned into a lovely sunny dry day for a change. Wes & Morse did the Daylesford Market and came home with lots of fresh fruit & vegetables, which I washed & put away. I was still coughing and feeling unwell, so had a quiet day and was in bed early again after catching up on minis of our games the previous day.
We woke to -3℃ and a heavy frost, which led to a beautiful sunny day. I did the shopping and chores, while Wes got stuck into the garden pruning, and filled 2 green bins. Morse was delighted to lie around in the sun, and everyone I met was smiling with the change to dry weather.
Wes has had a busy week keeping in touch via WhatsApp, Zoom, phone calls & emails. We are both very conscious that, as we get older, we are all fighting health battles, and it's important to stay in touch with each other. He chatted with Barbara in New Zealand; with Paul in Oxfordshire & Rod in Donvale, and with his sister, Denise, here in Daylesford.
On Wednesday morning, I was able to play Mah Jong with Judi in Muffins & More café. We had a good time, played about 10 games with honours about even. I was tired by 11.30, so we stopped then and I came back home to sparkling floors!
Wes had an excellent Jackson Group Zoom chat on Thursday morning, where they ranged over a number of topics. My regular Old Friends chat had been cancelled because three of us were meeting up at Chadstone. We were sorry to miss Rone's latest exhibition Home, but I couldn't have done the long day and it would have been tricky travelling on the icy roads. As well, with trains out, there would have been much more vehicular traffic, which meant delays in getting through the city.
Kathy sent these wonderful photos to show us what we had missed. So many memories came flooding back when we saw them. Callum Preston, who works with Rone to create these exhibitions, tells me that 55,000+ have seen Home, which finishes today.
Wes suggested we go for a drive in the sunshine to make up for missing our trip to Chadstone, and we found ourselves at Trentham Falls, where the water was flowing freely after the week of rain. Many of the visitors to our area were there as it is a great picnic spot with clean toilets, plenty of parking, a barbecue, and fenced steps to view the Falls. However, we couldn't help remembering that when we first visited these Falls after we moved to Daylesford, we could walk right down to the base and behind the water - a treat we shared with Ged Lazzaro early one morning when he & Kathy were staying with us.
It was still icy cold early on Friday morning, so I didn't walk with Wes & Morse, but had a couple of online chats instead. First with my sister, Leanne, who had been without power for most of the day before, and was still recovering from being so cold; and secondly with our friend, Jan, in Maleny, where 11℃ is considered chilly! Wes spent the morning filling our green bin with rose clippings, before doing a few handyman jobs.
That night Collingwood & North Melbourne fought out an exciting game with the Pies hanging on for a 4 point win in the final seconds. It was exhausting to watch as the lead chopped and changed and with 4 minutes to go the Kangaroos looked set for victory. A draw would have been a very fitting result!
Over the past few weeks, we have both been engrossed in reading the Cormac Reilly books by Irish writer, Dervla McTiernan, who now lives in Western Australia with her family. I had seen good reviews of her work, and was encouraged by Jane Knox to give her a try, so have been borrowing from our local library. No sooner have I finished a book, but Wes has it and is captivated too. The first in the series is called The Rúin, followed by The Scholar, The Good Turn and The Unquiet Grave.
Yesterday we celebrated 58 years since we committed to each other in a relationship, by having breakfast at The Convent. All those years ago, we had no idea where we would be in 2026, probably didn't even give it a thought. In the photo below, we were sitting in the Melbourne Uni folk club rooms listening to Danny Spooner, never dreaming we would run into him again here in Daylesford and enjoy re-igniting our friendship.
Last night, Carlton suffered their first loss in 8 weeks, going down to Hawthorn in atrocious conditions at the MCG. Wes was disappointed, but has enjoyed the change of fortune since Josh Fraser became interim coach, and was philosophical about the end of his winning run.
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