We’ve had a busy weekend here in Deloraine. It’s been great being back in the caravan and we seem to have more energy to get things done when we’re not in a house. We noticed that one of the little take-away shops was advertising that they would have Chinese food on Friday night so that saved us from having to cook something. We called in to the Empire Hotel for a pre-dinner drink but were a bit disappointed. The last time we were there was almost a year ago and Friday night was great. They had a Happy Hour and a Meat Raffle but that’s all in the past. They’ve decided to focus on their restaurant and the bar is just an adjunct to that; it has no atmosphere of its own. Shame!
We struggled out of bed on Saturday morning and decided to have a shower at Giant Steps. The shower in the van is adequate but you do have to develop a relationship with the shower curtain because of the tight space. It’s certainly more comfortable in a normal-sized shower. Later, at the supermarket, we met some friends from Rotary and went to their place for morning tea. Steen was keen to show me his train set. He’s an engineer and now puts his energy into his train. It’s N-gauge and he has a wonderful set up – still a bit to go before it’s finished but the work is very detailed and intricate. I might think I would like one but I know I wouldn’t have the patience to do the work required. And, when it’s finished, how can you spend hours just watching it go around in circles?
Today we visited a colleague from Giant Steps who has built a new house at Chudleigh. She was keen for us to meet her new partner who turned out to be one of the boarders we looked after at Friends School in the 1970s. We all tried to avoid the obvious and talked about almost everything but we kept coming back, inevitably to revisiting our memories of our time in the boarding house.
Later, we invited ourselves to a Trivia afternoon to raise money for Relay for Life. We always try to support this cause and a trivia competition seemed like a good way to do that. It was a bit sad in some ways. The organiser, Nicole, had printed posters and put them up all over town but, there was a total of only 12 people, our group of three (my ex-colleague, Kathryn, joined us), Nicole, her husband, son and mother, her best friend and a few mates. We split into two teams but it would have been nice if there been another dozen groups. The theme was television and the questions were excellent. Marilyn and I had to leave early and at that point, after 6 rounds, we were neck-and neck.
Our evening appointment was to play Indoor Bowls at the local bowling club. We were made very welcome and a good time was had by all.
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