Sunday Musings

I’m feeling sorry for myself at the moment as I have developed a cold, again, and I cannot take the ‘old favourite’ drugs of choice that used to be available to me and enabled me to enter the sublime, drug-induced otherworld of a dry nose, comatose head and numbed throat, a place where there is no coughing!!!! I miss it so much. So I sit here feeling sorry for myself and sipping my vitamin C drink.

Here’s an idea! Perhaps I could take my feelings out on someone else. Laurence is sitting next to me... but maybe not. Looking out our study window, I see two darling, young, black birds poking around the lawn having an evening meal. I am also listening to some rather good Latin/American-type music with a newly washed, brushed and fluffy Missi-moo on my lap. I had a great time singing in church this morning and I have spent the day relaxing, in and out of the beautiful sunshine we had today, etc, etc. The prospect of a glass of champagne and a hot bath with Laurence on the agenda for tonight... Maybe I should stop complaining.

Great news for those interested. Lyn Flewelling is at the editing stage of a 4th Nightrunner book and Diana Gabaldon is writing her 7th Outlander book and both have promised there will be more to come. Both series of books are centred around truly passionate lovers, in Lyn’s case they are male but in Diana’s they are most assuredly male and female. Both love stories are decidedly wonderful and I look forward to the new novels.

Christmas is nearly upon us and our pantry has a new section marked ‘Christmas stock’. This is a most exciting improvement over our Christmases past of last minute panicking, long queues and parking problems, and will take the pressure off the days coming up to Christmas.

A few pics above or below as the case may be, I have no control over this (well I’m sure I have if I knew how the hell to do it), are from our visit to an open, historic garden during Bathurst’s Garden Festival. The property is called Blair Athol and their were 4 Mercedes cars in the garages. The garden was gorgeous and a good 5 minutes from our house. I love Bathurst!

Visit to Sydney

During the school holidays, we had a wonderful time in Sydney, due mostly to the efforts of Chelsea, Daniel and Leanne. Thanks guys, we had a great time.

Somewhere here there is photo of Laurence and I, taken by Chelsea, whilst enjoying an afternoon in her company at beautiful Manly. (Gotta love it!) We had a great time walking, eating and drinking and taking in the beauty that is the wharf side of Manly. The weather was amazingly generous, considering it was the school holidays.

Also included are photos of Daniel and Leanne taken from “THE BOAT’ which now abides in his newly cleared out garage and enabled us to have a great day on the Hawkesbury.

There is an excellent photo of Laurence doing what he likes to do. I was going to say, ‘what he likes to do best’ - but that’s not it!!!

The weather was great, company excellent, food and wine superb, and apart from the nervousness because neither alpha males had their boat licenses, we had a great day. The Maritime Services Board chose that particular day to have a marketing campaign and had a fully-outfitted tent at Apple Tree Bay complete with uniformed officers with clipboards in hand, walking around interviewing all boaters and because of the amount of traffic (due to an abnormally lengthy period of really bad boating weather, which meant every Tom, Dick and Harry was out for the day) they saw everybody.

Everything turned out alright as our guys answered all the questions with great alacrity and composure, not rousing any suspicion in the enthusiastic officers. Get your licenses please!!!

And our guys did us proud, first of all Laurence’s truly masterful reversing of the trailer down the ramp and Daniel’s rather cool driving the boat perfectly onto the waiting trailer. Leanne and I did a special cheerleader-type victory dance on shore. We couldn’t help ourselves. Lots of the other guys were pathetic at reversing and maneuvering trailers and boats. One such, Mercedes driving, male took at least 13 goes at reversing his trailer down the ramp and he had help. Very unsexy! Our guys shone out in comparison. I know Brenton is also an expert at this. Go team!