Jings, hadn't realised it's been almost a month since the last blog post - I'm slipping! Or perhaps it's because Australia is just feeling a lot more like home and less like one big adventure. It's been over a year now and over 6 months that we've been in our house and it's flown by. The sun is still shining but it has cooled down for winter to a measley 14-16C on average. Our friends Louise and Nick are currently in Australia - they had a few days in Port Douglas where the weather was pretty sunny and now they are in Alice Springs camping in the outback for 3 days - I'm not sure they will love the cool 12C at Ayers Rock but fingers crossed they packed a woolly poolly!! Really looking forward to seeing them and showing them the local sights of Warragul and perhaps the slightly more interesting sights of Melbourne!
I have been out in the city on several occasions in the past 6 weeks or so. A few weeks ago, 6 of us netballers went to see the cheesy 80's rock show Rock of Ages which involved us waving fake lighters in the air whenever a particularly sad rock power ballad started up! Silly but good fun. Yesterday, Bob and I were on a wine tour to the Yarra Valley (a lovely engagement present from his sister Lindsey). It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed a spit roast carvery alongside wine tasting at three different wineries. We were glad to get the windy roads out of the way in the morning - judging by some of the drunk ones on the bus, it could've been disastrous on the way home! We came home with a couple of bottles of wine and some fudge, yum-ee. We also came across a lovely little chapel at one of the wineries but don't think we could squeeze more than 20 folk in there - Cramond Kirk it is then!!
We are midway through the netball season with 7 wins and 2 losses. The big crunch match on Saturday between Dusties and Ellinbank resulted in not only a loss but two skint knees, a skint elbow and a bruised jaw. Hmph! It was hard work and I really am getting too old for it all!! As usual the hot bath was calling!
Unfortunately Bob has been unable to exercise much the past week due to his recurrent neck injury (he had a mild whiplash incident with a photocopier a few weeks back......) and so he has been having daily physio and been strapped up to make his neck more comfortable. Sadly it has restricted his golf somewhat - hopefully his symptoms will settle down in time for this weekend.
We have been watching Australian Masterchef which has inspired us to cook different things over the past few weeks. We have now bought a French cooking book and are trying to work our way through the recipes. I was determined to make a Creme Caramel which appeared easy when I read it in the recipe book however Bob has his own ideas. Despite him warning me that it was a tricky thing to do, I stubbornly proceeded only to find out that (once again) he was indeed correct. It was only a minor tantrum but I failed miserably to make a caramel. Twice. Crystalised sugar does not taste good! Argh. Bob then tried to make an 'easy' sponge which unfortunately came out the oven looking a bit like an omelette. Oh well, we shall persevere!
Wedding plans are coming along nicely - just starting to make some invitations - we now have a caterer so now all big things are accounted for. Hurrah. Only 3 months until we come home! Yee ha!
Hope you are all well, lots of love Mo and Bob xx
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