Did the customary tour of the house and garden, and was pleased to see that the "laundry" was finally finished, - the bricks for the floor had been laid, and the outside painted - looks good
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| completed laundry |
Those funny blobby self seeded holly hock type plants had finally flowered - teeny tiny little purple flowers - certainly not worth the wait
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| holly hock wannabees on the left |
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| Single teeny holly hock wannabee flower |
I ended up pulling these out - to give my citrus more room
And, speaking of citrus I had bought yet another type - this type a blood orange - planted it near the pumpkin patch. And Mum harvested 2 of the pumpkins from out the front - as the vine was looking decidedly scrappy and so had to go....
I also planted 4 x bare rooted roses 2 x icebergs, and 2 x blue moons
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| one of the icebergs |
Had a delicious George Foreman lunch - of turkish bread, smoked chicken, cheese and my fabulous fejoa chutney. Mum actually commented on how good the chutney was - and that was before I had told her it was the one I had made. She was so impressed...
And to spoil Mum even more - made up an antipasto platter before dinner which we had in the dining room - offered her a G&T also - but she didn't feel like it, might have been a cold for one actually
Given that I had left the solar bud lights outside on the veranda the last time we came, they were good and charged up now, so I attached 2 lots to the railing on the veranda, looped one around the bed head in Mum's room, and another back in the bathroom
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| solar bud lights on veranda |
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| solar bud lights on Mum's bed head |
Of course the pub for dinner - quite busy, as the takeaway is still closed. We did see that the Royal had its lights on and a couple of people were in there vacuuming - good sign. I suppose that means that Bruce has gone, at least he gave us back our window blinds
Had a chat with Enzo as usual, and he said he'd have us around for dinner at some stage - which was rather nice
Home by 8.30 or 9, and a game of scrabble by the fire in the dining room, very cosy, and we just read the newspapers afterwards. I had suggested watching High Society on dvd given that we were going to the Grace Kelly exhibition on Sunday - but she thought it was too late
But not too late to make some of my fab bread maker bread - which I did, and programmed to have it ready by 7am
Made Mum a special Mother's day breakfast on Sunday morning - juice, coffee, free range eggs from David, hash browns, bacon and of course my bread. What a feast ! And did it all on my wood fired stove
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| Mum enjoying her breakfast |
And because it was quite cold outside and at times blustery and wet, we stayed inside a while keeping warm in front of the fire - reading the Sunday papers
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| opened up the door - to let more heat out |
I had to re-stock the wood quite a few times- as I was using small pieces that Gordon the roofer had cut up for us. I found one piece that still had a bit of slate nailed on it
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| bit of slat wood from the roof with some slate left nailed on it |
However, it didn't rain that much - so I gave the new plants a good watering (had also watered them yesterday) - as it is very apparent with the calendulas that those that didn't get any water near the roof line are small and stunted, while those in the open are comparatively huge . And I don't want my lovely ew plants to die. In fact, I'm wondering which of my many citrus will give me the first of much fruit...
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| huge calendulas in foreground, stunted ones near palm |
Mum also wanted to do a bit of scrumping - so went back to the apple tree in the paddock, not so laden now, but we still managed to get a large bag full. That will be the last haul for this season. Mum will stew them or make apple cake etc
Now, given our large breakfast, we just had a relatively light lunch of a sandwich and some fruit - and then off to Bendigo for the Grace Kelly exhibition - which we had to book in advance. we both enjoyed it very much, and then back home to Melbourne for a Mother's Day family dinner
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