Today, John invites us to go to his farm for morning tea. Sue teaches Music at her studio in town and works Tuesdays and Wednesdays so unfortunately she won’t be there.
We meet Jan and Alan and David and Liz and drive the 16 kms out of town to their farm. It is noticeably dry with all the paddocks very brown. However do the sheep survive!!!
When we arrive Robyn and Bart are there also and we again all get together for some more family banter , cups of tea and a lovely fresh tea cake . It is a lovely time and we feel a bit sad that we will soon say goodbye as David and Liz will leave shortly to head back to Sydney.
We say our goodbyes to them as they leave, also to Robyn and Bart and as we won’t leave until tomorrow we will possibly see John and Sue again.
We head back into town and I decide to detour and go into the local cemetery. My auntie Norma and Uncle John are buried at the cemetery and I felt the need to pay them a visit.
After some searching we find them and are surprised to notice the birth date on my aunt’s grave is different to what I had always thought. The inscription read “8th May 1910 to 17th January 2004”. I thought I must check on this as I had always sent her a birthday card on 3rd May. Was I mistaken all these years!
We got back to camp and Nick and I decided we would have a swim. The local pool is full of school children so we decide to postpone it until after 3pm and in the meantime spend some time discovering more about the local area. In the meantime we get a phone call from Jan and Alan. Alan has lost his tooth and needed to find a dentist urgently. They went into town and found one (on their friend Julie’s recommendation). Surprisingly he was able to be seen straight away which apparently is unheard of here. He has an impression taken and told his new one will be ready the next day. They decide to go off and play 9 holes of golf and enjoy the rest of the day as best they can.
By 3pm the pool is almost deserted so we enjoy swimming some laps, Nick (20) me (6) – I am sure I will improve on this.
Jan and Alan arrive back at camp the same time as us and as we are tired and needing an early night we decline their invitation to dinner at a local Thai Restaurant with their friends Julie and Chris.
We cook a BBQ and as our TV still doesn’t work properly, despite all efforts to get the right attachments so we are in bed by 9pm. I do hope the pace settles down a bit as all the late nights and socializing is taking its tol!
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