Another weekend has flown by

Time seems to be flying again this month. We had a really pleasant weekend, starting off on Friday with lunch at Ailsa and Rod's place, just south of Brisbane - we took up both Aunts. The lunch (salmon steaks along with ambrosia for dessert) was super.

Rod doing the honours.

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Loads of talk on travel and swapping books - Ailsa and Rod take off for France and England in October for a month, and of course are looking forward to spending time with their eldest daughter, Jo (my oldest God daughter). Think the 3 of them will concentrate on the very south of England this time, and then Ails and Rod will stay with friends in their cottage in the Dordogne - we had quite a bit of information and many photos on this area, as in May 2003 we spent about 3 weeks in this province - Ian and Sarah drove across from England and joined us in an old farmhouse for a week.

The old Farmhouse

The farmhouse had a pool for Sarah and Ian to enjoy during this part of their honeymoon!

Ian and his Dad in Brantome, Dordogne

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Saturday, a gardening day - did loads of stuff, now we just have to order in the mulch and spread that. That evening we watched those Kiwi "All Blacks" demolish the"Wallabies" yet again!!! Sunday morning we trotted off to the Farmer's Market, picked up some goodies and came back home for lunch with Gail and Steve. The day was very pleasant - we ate outside, making up our own pizzas which were super, and finished off again with clafouti from Montmartre. It was a great afternoon - Gail and Steve travel south for a month on Friday to look after 2 of their grandchildren, while their youngest daughter completes her Nursing exams.

Since Monday it has been raining, the garden needed it, so we are just doing some internal catching up. We did go to the movies yesterday and saw "The Special Relationship" (the Blair/Clinton story). Both of us really enjoyed it - the actor who plays Tony Blair is excellent.