Life last week – OR – Between birthdays and days out it’s been all go…….

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Well, the week got off to a good start with another of our children becoming eligible for a seniors card…..yes ‘our little girl’ turned 60. That would make me……old enough to be her mother😊. Although I do wonder where all those years went from the time she was just a little one in Singapore.

A little gathering that evening gave me a chance to chat with the new ‘householder’ – ‘oh it’s terraced I said… (party walls – very close neighbours)……. “no grandma it’s an ‘open plan townhouse’ and out the back, at the end of our ‘little enclosed garden’ we have a 2car garage “ (very important for 2 car families, means no street parking – and all the associated problems)

“it might be small grandma but it’s all ours. We could have gone for a larger ‘fixer upper’ but we don’t have the time so this’ll do us for a while”

So we’re off to visit her some time soon – about 40 mins away – and unload……pass on – several sets of wine glasses, a set of kitchen scales as well as various other items that haven’t been used by us for quite a while. Much better than the op shop!.
She does know and has approved ‘the donation’

Out to the warm water pool very early on a very cool Tuesday morning. Bliss!.
Same others there as before walking to and fro. Natter, natter, natter
This week’s cryptic overhead comment – “she’ll be sorry she ever met him”. .

Had a few chats with residents on Wednesday because due to a ‘mix up’ …their’s not mine….the scheduled ‘new’ activity didn’t take place. Learnt of several losses as well as several new arrivals, so I’ve some ‘getting to know you’ chats coming up. I did have a little smile when someone mentioned that XXX was now ‘safe in the arms of Jesus’…..it was an expression my granny (Dad’s mum) in Belfast used, was placed in death notices and inscribed at the bottom of the headstone.

Then on Thursday we were off out for a quick drive up the road to Healesville.
Seeing people’s dams so full was a sign of the wet Winter (and continuing Spring) weather in these parts, here’s hoping they won’t dry up too quickly once Summer’s heat arrives

And seeing the vineyard gangs out at work was a reminder that farming in whatever form is an all year round all weather occupation. They look to be working on a block of fairly new plantings (still have protective covers/sleeves on so maybe put in last Autumn) you can just make out the new growth on the older vines in the background and on the hillside if the photo’s enlarged.

Even though it was a chilly wet day we wanted to continue our ‘occasional lunch dates’ so it was lunch at the RSL…..definitely not as large a branch as elsewhere but has reasonably cheap cheerful and not too bad lunch deals……after seeing someone else’s (yes, I’m that person who looks at the plates going past my table) I had a chicken snitzel. Good choice, proper chicken – not those pressed forms some places serve plus cooked just right. Why do some places think it’s ok to serve very crispy, very dark brown, almost burnt offerings – because the fat was much too hot?!

Lunch was followed by coffee at you know who’s club a short drive away…….sorry no palm trees. Just miles and miles of National Park….that’s …a very shaky looking range of hills with Mount Riddell further to the ‘right’ ….through a dirty windscreen. (Someone went over the speed hump just as I tapped the phone 🙁)

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To round the week off Friday afternoon was Book Club #2. The one where we all read the same book (chosen by the library). These ladies are all so very different to my ‘other group’ – far more serious- sometimes I wonder if it’s my thing but then they do help me understand that what one reader may take from a book is not always the same as another. And the ‘new leader’ puts on such a fabulous afternoon tea I’d miss going just for that😊.
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With just two events on the calendar for this week coming I’m hoping it doesn’t change and turn out to be as busy as the one just gone
We need time for sitting and pondering and I didn’t get to do much of that
so wish me luck!.

How was your week…..busier than you liked…..or slower than you enjoy

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