Oktoberfest!
4 days back in Australia and we were in the local community hall in Warragul drinking steins of beer and eating sauerkraut and sausages - Oktoberfest was being celebrated in big style and all the Germans had come out of the woodwork - there were at least 15 of them and they were dressed up for the occasion! Thigh slapping galore, live music and a best dressed competition with some physical challenges made for an interesting afternoon. Shame it was a Sunday, we were suffering from slightly sore heads Monday morning. Oops. Next year we'll need to get the sewing machine out and whip up a lederhosen costume for Bob....
First week back at work and we were fresh as daisies - I've never been so nice to my patients! Needless to say, the novelty of being back at work has now worn off although Bob seems to have managed to squeeze in a day of golf for which is work paid him for, and a Project Manager course, as well as a work lunch at Brandy Creek Winery. Taking it easy it would seem!
The past couple of weeks have been warmer and sunny, definitely hotting up for summertime, yeeha. One particularly hot day led us to wander to the local tapas bar in 28C heat at 6pm for a wee glass of wine and some nibbles - this is the life! We have both been out in the sunshine trying to get back into the swing of exercising...it's been hard after a couple of weeks of eating and drinking in Scotland but we're getting there slowly. Bob is currently sat with an ice pack on his hamstring that he pulled in the gym - not quite the spring chicken? No netball for me at the moment, although we are trying to put together a November cup, almost like a test series between Warragul Dusties and Drouin Hawks. Hopefully it will take off.
Instead, I am concentrating on my new sport - LAWN BOWLS! Awesome. Bob and I, along with Joe and Lauren, have created the team The Foreigners and we had our first win on Tuesday night. It was a close call, with a few bowls going haywire, before we found our stride towards the end. The less said about our intellectually disabled opponents the better...ahem.......
Bob is still playing lots of golf and has a big competition on Sunday, the Gippsland championships! The worst he could be is the 27th best golfer in the region - not bad! Sadly, this comes the day after his friend Matt's Melbourne Cup BBQ and therefore I'm sure one or two beers will be consumed. Watch this space for the final result, especially as he tees off at 7.38am
I attended the Dusties annual netball trip last Saturday - "Dusties Olympics" - whereby there were six teams (tennis, golf, athletics, lawn bowls, wrestling/boxing and gymnastics) who all competed against each other in various sports day challenges. The day started at 9am and the first beer was thrust upon me at approximately 9.17am. Yuk. I'm afraid to say I nursed it until 11am where I was feeling better able to drink it! First game up, 'create-a-team-mascot". This involved 6 teams lined up, in front of 6 buckets, each with different teddy bear parts. (we'll not mentioned how they were torn apart but Ruth and Jess must be evil!) I'll attach a photo of our rather swell looking mascot. The mascot was to stay with a team member for the whole day, points deducted for the mascot going missing. Needless to say, our team was deducted points although I wasn't happy as it was blatantly daylight robbery. Other games included balloon bursting, Goon of Fortune involving a whirlygig, waterballoon boat races, tug of war, mud wrestling and pyramid building. The beer bong was used frequently as a forfeit and there were buckets for the casualties on the bus. One team had to say ringadingding before speaking (thank goodness not us) and there were Winners are Grinners t-shirts passed around for various winners on the day. We were doing so well with our mascot before Stacey left her in a toilet near some random field. Ah well. All in all, a fun day out. Think I'll give my liver a rest for a wee while though!
And the best news ever - Bob and I went to the golf club Friday night mega raffle, with Gary and Chelsea, Joe and Lauren last Friday night and we won........a 32" plasma TV! Brilliant! This is the best raffle ever. We picked it up the following day and it's looking miles better than our ancient box of a telly. We are lucky, lucky, lucky!
Open mic night at Middels round the corner tomorrow evening, then BBQ on Saturday. We have the day off next Tuesday for the Melbourne Cup so we are having a cup party at ours. Think we'll maybe organise a wee sweepstake between us all.
That's all our news for now - will update the blog soon, enjoy the photos! Love Mo and Bob x
4 days back in Australia and we were in the local community hall in Warragul drinking steins of beer and eating sauerkraut and sausages - Oktoberfest was being celebrated in big style and all the Germans had come out of the woodwork - there were at least 15 of them and they were dressed up for the occasion! Thigh slapping galore, live music and a best dressed competition with some physical challenges made for an interesting afternoon. Shame it was a Sunday, we were suffering from slightly sore heads Monday morning. Oops. Next year we'll need to get the sewing machine out and whip up a lederhosen costume for Bob....
First week back at work and we were fresh as daisies - I've never been so nice to my patients! Needless to say, the novelty of being back at work has now worn off although Bob seems to have managed to squeeze in a day of golf for which is work paid him for, and a Project Manager course, as well as a work lunch at Brandy Creek Winery. Taking it easy it would seem!
The past couple of weeks have been warmer and sunny, definitely hotting up for summertime, yeeha. One particularly hot day led us to wander to the local tapas bar in 28C heat at 6pm for a wee glass of wine and some nibbles - this is the life! We have both been out in the sunshine trying to get back into the swing of exercising...it's been hard after a couple of weeks of eating and drinking in Scotland but we're getting there slowly. Bob is currently sat with an ice pack on his hamstring that he pulled in the gym - not quite the spring chicken? No netball for me at the moment, although we are trying to put together a November cup, almost like a test series between Warragul Dusties and Drouin Hawks. Hopefully it will take off.
Instead, I am concentrating on my new sport - LAWN BOWLS! Awesome. Bob and I, along with Joe and Lauren, have created the team The Foreigners and we had our first win on Tuesday night. It was a close call, with a few bowls going haywire, before we found our stride towards the end. The less said about our intellectually disabled opponents the better...ahem.......
Bob is still playing lots of golf and has a big competition on Sunday, the Gippsland championships! The worst he could be is the 27th best golfer in the region - not bad! Sadly, this comes the day after his friend Matt's Melbourne Cup BBQ and therefore I'm sure one or two beers will be consumed. Watch this space for the final result, especially as he tees off at 7.38am
I attended the Dusties annual netball trip last Saturday - "Dusties Olympics" - whereby there were six teams (tennis, golf, athletics, lawn bowls, wrestling/boxing and gymnastics) who all competed against each other in various sports day challenges. The day started at 9am and the first beer was thrust upon me at approximately 9.17am. Yuk. I'm afraid to say I nursed it until 11am where I was feeling better able to drink it! First game up, 'create-a-team-mascot". This involved 6 teams lined up, in front of 6 buckets, each with different teddy bear parts. (we'll not mentioned how they were torn apart but Ruth and Jess must be evil!) I'll attach a photo of our rather swell looking mascot. The mascot was to stay with a team member for the whole day, points deducted for the mascot going missing. Needless to say, our team was deducted points although I wasn't happy as it was blatantly daylight robbery. Other games included balloon bursting, Goon of Fortune involving a whirlygig, waterballoon boat races, tug of war, mud wrestling and pyramid building. The beer bong was used frequently as a forfeit and there were buckets for the casualties on the bus. One team had to say ringadingding before speaking (thank goodness not us) and there were Winners are Grinners t-shirts passed around for various winners on the day. We were doing so well with our mascot before Stacey left her in a toilet near some random field. Ah well. All in all, a fun day out. Think I'll give my liver a rest for a wee while though!
And the best news ever - Bob and I went to the golf club Friday night mega raffle, with Gary and Chelsea, Joe and Lauren last Friday night and we won........a 32" plasma TV! Brilliant! This is the best raffle ever. We picked it up the following day and it's looking miles better than our ancient box of a telly. We are lucky, lucky, lucky!
Open mic night at Middels round the corner tomorrow evening, then BBQ on Saturday. We have the day off next Tuesday for the Melbourne Cup so we are having a cup party at ours. Think we'll maybe organise a wee sweepstake between us all.
That's all our news for now - will update the blog soon, enjoy the photos! Love Mo and Bob x
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