More furniture movement and dvds 17-19 August 2017

Had thought I'd drive up to Inglewood straight after work, on the Thursday night, but changed my mind, exercised, had some dinner, and then drove up around 8pm - that way I could just go to bed when I arrived, and watch an episode of Monarch of the Glen in warmth - with a hot water bottle.

Was a windy night, something was knocking outside my window, but I managed to fall asleep without too much difficulty

Had a bit of a sleep in on Friday - almost 8am! Read the Age on line for a little while, then ventured out into the cold diningroom and had some porridge and a coffee

  

And then took the furniture in from the car

Bedside tables for the bedroom on top of the kitchen (previously known as the Garden room and the study)

And also 3 (out of 5 chairs) that we bought for the manor table upstairs

Also organised the rest of the dvds including some recorded ones that I had made up.  Divided them into movies, tv series - drama/documentary - with most of the docos being house type programs ie Grand Designs, Country House Rescue, Restoration Man etc

Had a coffee and catch-up with Denise at the Empire, and ordered the meat and fat for the salami/sausage making next weekend - Jim spoke about the Bridgewater caravan park again - asked if Justin had a boat licence, said we could take out the party boat.  Back home for a quick lunch, and then my haircut with Michelle at 2pm - went a bit dark red this time

Finished up around 4pm ,and went to Sharps, as Steve had said that Bernie could cut glass (long shed louvres).  He was there, and saw me coming ie knew that I was there for glass cutting (Steve had told him earlier). He said he'd be glad to do it.  So I toddled off home, and got the 2 x long louvre windows and the right size one from the shed, and dropped them off

Home via the IGA and saw Noi on the way back - she gave me some nice fresh parsley and coriander.

Back upstairs for more dvd organising, and then Terry came by after 6pm - I'd called him earlier to see if he'd like dinner at the pub.

He came bearing gifts and a couple of jars of nice looking olives which he'd produced

Had a red, and some dips and crackers in the kitchen, and then off to the pub

Despite having made a booking with Dionne earlier (when I had a coffee with Denise), there was no reserved table.  There were plenty of empty tables though.  There was a new chef - advertised on the outside board, along with a new menu. new chef was there, new menu wasn't.

I had crumbed cutlets, and Terry had the steak - not bad

Barb was there with a large table - Grant, Francine, their grown up kids and others.  Her partner, (Grant's father) had just died the day before.  I offered my condolences.

Terry and I stayed chatting till well after everyone else in the dining room had left.  Said that he was thinking of moving from Kingower -- which very much suprised me.  Would still stay in the general vicinity ie Bendigo/Harcourt etc. I would be very sorry to see him leave, as over the years, we've become good friends

I guess we left around 10.30, (there were still a few people left in the bar) and walked back to the house.  Terry left for his place, and I watched another episode of Monarch of the Glen with my trusty hot water bottle.

Fell asleep before it ended though

Rained during the night, and was a bit grey and cold in the early morning

Did become sunny and nice later on, so I took a few photos of the early Spring blossoms - almonds and jonquils etc

The trees that I'd ordered from the Hub fruit tree drive (lemon, cumquat, mandarin, pecan, fuji apple, cherry and persimmon must have been dropped off by Kim (bless her cotton socks) - so I planted them, moved the rogue artichoke from the vegie garden path, and pulled out the 2 x rogue plum trees from the vegie garden to take back, and plant in Melbourne

Also did a bit of weeding/trimmimg

Picked up the glass from Sharps - no charge!  How nice was that, and walked past the newest shop which had been Catherine's from ages ago

Stuck my head in, and met Ben (and saw his son Charlie sanding down a chair).  Had quite a long chat, he's from Castlemaine, and had done a lot of renovation work in the past - might be able to help us with ours ie restumping.plastering etc

Then back home to fit the louvre windows, tidy up and then back to Melbourne to see Fraser go to his Year 12 formal..  As it was, the route to Melbourne from the Calder alternative was closed (and will be closed for 3 months), so I went via the Maldon detour.