Monday 4th
January 2015
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| Some soothing pansies |
It seems a bit ridiculous but…I have been too busy
even to look at my computer. My phone
gets a bit of (fleeting) attention so I do manage to answer emails and glance to
Facebook.
Otherwise it is all GO!!
New Year Eve was great, at Philippe and Ann-Marie’s,
in their little city cottage. We all
went and stood on the street and watched the fireworks and sang Auld Lang Syne with
much feeling.
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| And there were delicious cocktails!! |
Most of the time now there are at least two things happening
simultaneously… For example while we were in Liverpool St, James was having a
party in Pete’s house. So…Pete didn’t
get to bed until 4.50…I was MUCH more conservative and was asleep at 2.50…
On the 2nd we had a big Harmsen family BBQ
at Waterworks. A bit chilly but so
wonderful to have so many of us together.
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| Some of us |
Pete was there but AT THE SAME TIME he was at MONA and
then Salamanca with his Launceston family…he is truly a Time Lord…
I only had one visit to the Taste of Tasmania. We watched a busker who tried very VERY hard
but who really wasn’t very good at all. He
got Katy out to liven things up and she very kindly smiled in an encouraging
way…
On New Years Day we met up with some family and friends
at MONA for the big New Years Day concert.
It was both hot and cold at the very same time…We had to leave before You Am I
because…at the the same time as being
at the concert we were having the wonderful Oestler family to dinner…Chloe is
now a fully qualified vet, working in a practice near Geelong. She regaled us with James Herriot-type stories
and showed us her battle scars (mostly long and festy scratches from crazed
cats who never appreciate visits to the vet.)
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| Charlotte |
At the same time as this the Darceys and the Humes
arrived to stay. We didn’t quite manage
to have 22 people in the house, as did the Woods on Christmas Day, but we did
manage to jam ten sleeping bodies into the house. James and Nicole with Grace, Olivia and Matilda
from Launceston, and their house-guests Bob and Mary with Vivi, Canadians working
in Ukraine. (Love those Canadians! We will all miss them very much; they are a
great addition to Tasmania and bring joy and laughter wherever they go.)
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| Mary and Bob |
On Saturday night it was Kate Headlam’s 40th
birthday party, at the Metz.
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| Kate's cake! |
Everyone
dressed up, everyone had a great time.
Much dancing, much chat.
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| Olivia Nicole Bronwen Mary |
Today Michael and I are going to lunch, at Mures Upper
Deck (his choice.) And so it goes…
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