WE'VE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME at janet and bevan's unit at Trinity Beach, the sea is a 10 minute stroll away and the selection of restaurants is just big enough to have everything we need, we've enjoyed early morning ocean swims, margaritas before lunch every day, more swims in our own pool and a mixed bag of weather conditions to constant rain for days to the last couple of days which have been warm and beautiful. It's all been good, wet or not. So relaxing to have no commitments or decisions for a week, just the job of choosing where to eat each day :0)
After a decade on the Murray/Darling confluence I've moved to the Bellarine Peninsula on Pt Phillip Bay. I've been so lucky to spend time with the fabulous birdlife and animals and the river itself, not to mention the warm and friendly people of the Sunraysia. Now i'll be close to family and old friends. My new home is surrounded by the bay and wetlands so there'll be much to discover
Sunday, 30 April 2023
A WEEK OF NO PRESSING ENGAGEMENTS
Unfortunately now we're holed up in the Cairns Holiday Inn courtesy of Jetstar, who cancelled our flight half an hour before boarding today. so we'll be arriving home tomorrow night instead of tonight. annoying but what can you do? :0(
a night at gails before leaving, coffee with jenny and freddie after a swim with the waders at torquay
at the airport
first days of rain and umbrellas
the gorgeous treelined beach at trinity - palms and indian almond trees line the foreshore. the almond trees are wide umbrella shaped canopies with large sprays of leaves and unusual fringed flowers. there's a walkway under the trees all along the beach, very attractive and shady
\\\we had a few days of high rolling seas
Our pool at the unit
ANZAC DAY at Trinity Beach
Progress pics sent by Trent
a visit to the shoreline at portarlington
Thursday, 20 April 2023
TWO WEEKS OF BUILDERS IN THE HOUSE
SINCE APRIL 5 . . .
MORNING SWIMS
are really doing me good, my swim style is getting stronger, i can swim further and now i'm practising breathing on every 5th stroke instead of every 3rd. The water and weather is cooling down but after a few strokes it's still wonderful.
the dogs love it too
of dinosaurs at the museum
APRIL 7
Photos of the bathroom in its present state. trent will be coming soon to start redoing it from the ground up - thank god!!!
I'VE BEEN BUSY in the studio, moving things, assembling shelving and painting the walls and floor, just a bit more floor to go. it feels like a really nice workspace now
unpopular breakfast suggestion :0)
involved in
the mixing
current knitting
- a winter top
for Etta
APRIL 12
by the end of
the day the old bathroom had
all but
disappeared
😀
APRIL 13.
looking back to here from the 20th when i'm writing this, swimming in the mornings has really given a balance to my days of renovation disruption, it's inevitable when so much is displaced to unfamiliar locations around the house. but trent and all the tradies who've been here are good to have in the house.
it's great that the
Indented Head Yacht
Club is allowing us to
be social members. We
have use of their
bathrooms and kitchen.
Hot showers - yesterday
just a dream :0)
APRIL 15
Progress on the bathroom, framework going up, trent and brad on the job
APRIL 16 i had a restful couple of nights away from the building site, dinner with all the buddies at the Elephant Castle (lots of strange people there, Darren Lyons was holding court) then two nights at gail's, a morning swim with the Waders and a lazy day of tv and knitting, just what i needed
we swam to the buoy
some days melbourne looks close enough to swim to
I ARRIVED HOME from Gail's to find the bath in place, excitement!! trent's working like a trojan, saturdays too. today he isn't coming for the first time, it's divine to stay in bed, catch up on the blog and just have time to myself, holiday starts on saturday, i wonder what will be done when i get home :0)
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