Thank you Mr Lovell

Wonder if he was looking down, watching me dig up his potatoes!

We have been here a year now, he has been dead about the same time, and still his spuds are alive and kicking!

I think I have got them all out now, but wait for next year, there are bound to be more "volunteers"

Bugger I still didn't get it right.

So read the next three posts in reverse order, then it will make sense. I give up with Google, I am sure they make it difficult on purpose!!

The flower show

Bit disappointed, no little old lady streaked in and and got first prize for dried arrangement!
Remember the joke about the two little old ladies sitting outside, one said to the other "life is so boring these days, for $10 I would strip off and run in there, just for fun." The other lady promptly produced $10 and off she went. Then the lady outside heard clapping and out came her friend, beaming all over and said "Guess what? I got first prize for dried arrangement"

But the flowers were beautiful, I would hate to be a judge, how can you chose one over all the others? The church was beautiful too, they had taken out all the pews to make room for the flowers, as they had lost their hall.

Lunch

We had lunch in the Riverside cafe where I had last enjoyed breakfast with Heidi when she was over last year. This was not affected by the fires and payed its art in feeding all the hungry firemen and workers who were helping out after the fires.

I had a very nice Parmesan tart filled with blue cheese and caramelised onions, with a beet root salad and Ken indulged himself with a seafood pot pie, all washed down with a local pale ale which had been brewed in the bottle.

We sat outside and had a pleasant time watching the activities on the little marina there.

Dunally bushfires

Today we decided to go down to Dunally, to the Dahlia and Gladioli Flower Show which was being held in the church as the Hall was completely destroyed in the recent fires.

When we got to Forcett we began to see the complete devastation, on each side of the road and far up into the bush, it was all brown. It must have been very frightening when it was all happening.

Even though we had seen pictures in the newspapers, taking our own photos really brought it all home to us.

Yesterday's Probus walk

was from Conningham beach to Legacy Beach. There were eight of us, I think a couple of them thought it was a bit of a testing walk, be interesting to see if they come again!

This is what happens if you forget to put the SR flour in!

So I had to do them all over again as it was Ma Jong at our place today.