Remiss

How remiss of me.  Debbie reminded me that I hadn't reported that her brother had arrived back here!    Yes, Steve came home, around 5.30am last Friday, hale and hearty.  He brought back a few things that we had forgotten.  One was the breadmaker so we're filling the annexe with that mouthwatering smell of fresh bread.

The days are still remarkably warm and there has been no sign of any rain.  It was a lovely day for the market on Sunday.   I bought some mint, but am still deciding where to put it; also a punnet of mixed colour freesias which I've put in the ground near the en suite.     The day before we left home, I planted semi-circular containers of bulbs and to my great surprise, the little star flowers were up by the time we arrived here.   They are similar to the picture but not the same.  The ones I planted grow individually in the lawn and reappear each year.

Steve has been busy with bits and pieces in the caravan.  Yesterday's addition was one of those fly net curtains that snap shut with a magnet.  The mosquitoes are voracious this year and the old weighted fly curtain wasn't keeping them out.

I've continued having 2 massages a week with Jill but she is leaving next week.  Her husband's job on the harvest has finished and they are moving elsewhere.  Then I'll drop back to one massage a week, with Tom.

I messed around incessantly with my Skype program and finally got Andrew, with video.  We talked for an hour ---- luxury!   We have made the decision to go back to Cohuna and visit them there.  I'm still dithering about whether to see the new visiting surgeon in Cohuna.  I guess I'll dither until it's too late!  We've decided that seeing as we will be "so close" we will go on to Melbourne and see everyone down there.   Exact date isn't set yet but it will be before the end of May.

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