Tuesday 23rd December
My favourite son
is back in town…
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| Claire, Nicky, Katy, Michael |
My favourite
offspring are reunited!!
And today I too
was reunited with Michael… He had brought me pearls, from the United Arab
Emirates. And he was full of good cheer
and looking forward to his next deployment… He leaves Australia on 6th
January…
After Lauderdale I
had a bit of waiting time in Bellerive.
Looking at the marina made me nostalgic for marina time on 2XS.
Leo and Jeff had a
fabulous bushwalk to Mt Ossa. Leo is
thrilled to bits because he got lots of mud coverage.
Pete desperately
needed new boots. He made a new friend in
Tradewear…
John Oldmeadow,
the shop owner, said that if Pete bought these boots it would be a record for
length of time in contemplating a
purchase…
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| Pete and John |
He didn’t buy the boots.
They were the wrong fit, and John said it would take him toll Christmas
to clean up all of the boots strewn around the shop floor after Pete’s trails
and tribulations with this and that style of workboot.
Eventually he
bought a very cheap pair in K & D, which did not pinch and squeeze his
delicate feet. He wore them out of the
shop and put the old worn out ones in the box… When we got to the checkout he
said, “Gawd, you’re not going to charge me $39 for these, are you?” The woman at the checkout out looked at him
long and hard then turned to raise an eyebrow at me. “There’s one of these every day, isn’t here?”
she said, sighing deeply. And the
security guard at the door said, with an equally deep sigh, “You might like to
remove the label from your new boots or I will book you!”
This afternoon my friend
Mary came to visit, with her beautiful daughter Bronte.
Bronte wanted a demonstration of Prezi. I couldn’t help at all; the internet refused
to load any form of Prezi. But she also
wants to build a straw bale house so she had a lovely time looking at the most beautiful
straw bale house in the world!
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| Bronte, Katy, Mary |
This evening Katy’s
oldest friend in the world, Kate Russell, has been visiting from Melbourne with
her husband and her children, Ted and Iris.
Kate and Katy met in the state library when they were five weeks and one
week old…and they have been firm friends ever since…
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| Kate and Katy |
Before they arrived
Rose tried to decorate the Christmas wreath vase and Eva tried to rescue it…
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| Rose and Eva |
Busy happy times!!
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