Tuesday 27th May

Phew....finally finished the newsletter for another 2 months. Of course, just after I'd emailed it to the printer I had a phonecall from someone to see if I could put something else in it. Too late. Decided to pick it up on the way to work tomorrow, rather than make a special trip out in the rain tonight.
What a shame the preliminary final for our tennis today has had to be postponed till next week, because of the rain. We were doing okay too, although a late start with having to mop up one court. Was good tennis too. My first set took over an hour, with us winning the tie-break 8-6, so not much in it really. The other girls played almost 2 sets during that time too.
My weekend work has halted for the time being, thank goodness. Will be nice to have some time to get out in the garden again, weather permitting.
How'z this new haircut??
What a disgrace is the Camden community. Shame on them.
Good news on the Euc. erythrocorys - it has some new shoots. What a pity Betty threw hers out.
The Ginkgo tree is still a glorious gold with a carpet underneath.

Wednesday 21st May

Another nice bit of rain over the last few days. Just over an inch in fact. I should be out there planting in every spare minute, but the cold and damp is not so conducive at the moment.
Some more good wins at tennis, both last Tuesday, Thursday, and yesterday. This puts us into the finals for Tuesday next week.
Our Ginkgo tree outside the kitchen door is looking just beautiful at the moment, as you can see.
Must say I am finding all this weekend work a bit of a struggle at the moment. Don't seem to have much time to relax, what with the newsletter hanging over me this week, and tennis 2 days, and work Wednesdays, and Thurs night. Roll on June, when hopefully no more weekend work. Fitting my moves in on Scrabble (with Ann in Brisbane, and Joanne in NY) is fun too!
Went out to dinner with Ginnie, Kerry, Alan and Michelle Saturday night. Happy Birthday to Michelle for yesterday.
Ginnie, Michelle and I are hoping to see The Painted Veil sometime soon, and I would also like to see Unsecret.

Thursday 8/5

A whole week without posting.
I must admit I have been distracted by lots of work and our plant sale on Sunday among other things.
Last week I had plenty of work on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday afternoon.
Thursday night was our Yarra Yarra monthly plant meeting, at which I supplied the laptop to run the powerpoint presentation by our speaker. This entailed a bit of preparation on the Wednesday morning before work, checking out that it all worked, since it is a new digital projector the group has bought. Glad I did, as I had to ring the ASUS help desk to find out how to get it on the screen. Spent all day at our plant sale Sunday, which did extremely well as usual. Then Tuesday night our Committee Meeting was held here.........a bit protracted, with lots of discussion on the problems with our Victorian group, planning for this year's Flower Show to come, the success of our recent plant sale, etc etc.
Tennis was successful last Tuesday, and again this week, but last Thursday's tennis was a washout. Lovely to get some rain though. Today's game was a win too.
Work this week on Wednesday, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Hope you have fun playing with Milimba my virtual cat.

Tuesday morning

Have had some nice rain the last couple of days - about 17mm all up. Long may it continue.
I have been disappointed with one of my Bunnings plants - a Eucalyptus erythrocorys - planted it out soon after purchase, and it is already dying. My friend Betty bought one at the same time, and it seems hers is dying back also, and hers is still in the pot. Think it must have been pushed along too quickly in its growth and hadn't been hardened off enough before sale - there was a lot of new tender leaf growth on it when we bought them.
Well, I have succumbed to joining Facebook. I decided I needed to know more about it as a librarian - people do come to us expecting us to know all about everything on the internet! I must say I am not impressed with it so far - not intuitive to find your way around it. Though Annie was quick off the mark inviting me to a game of Scrabulous (Scrabble) before I'd even signed up fully! So that will be fun to play, though I expect they will be very long interrupted games.
Yesterday saw a really cold snap arrive, though it only got down to 10deg last night. Oops, look at the time - am off to tennis.

Saturday 26/4/08

Not much news this week. Only 1 day at work, Wednesday and a 1/2 day Thursday night. Quite busy on Wednesday, and quiet but steady Thursday night. Managed to get a bit of the holds list done that night for a change.
Tuesday was a good tennis day, brilliant weather, and a very good win - in fact we were so far ahead that the opposition forfeited the last 2 sets, as they were nursing several injuries (it was 1 lady's first time back after a hip replacement!) Thursday's tennis was a different story - again, lovely weather, but after 4 sets each it was a draw, so we may as well have not played, except the exercise was good for us.
Managed to get a few more plants in this week, so now have to run around with our recycled/collected water and keep a bit of water up to them. We have been promised rain this weekend, but apart from being cloudy and a few spots last night, nothing has eventuated yet.
Neil and I watched Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress on dvd last Sunday night, and thoroughly enjoyed it, even though it was subtitled rather than dubbed. Wonder what the book is like......has anyone read it? There was another one someone told me about at the library the other night, which they recommended the book over the film, but I can't remember it now. Mmm, wonder if it will come back to me?
Anzac Day yesterday. Am always surprised that new stories keep emerging each year from families and historians. Quite interesting to hear the story around the French town Villers-Bretonneux. And interesting that they kept the memorial service for families of the crew of HMAS Sydney to Thursday, separate from Anzac Day.