And Another Weekend

The solar panel inspector came on Thursday at just after 8:30 in the morning. Fortunately, I had seen the message he sent at 7:30 to say he was on his way, and so was up and dressed.

He didn't stay long and the panels were turned on well before 09:00 

He explained lots of things but I do wish he had mentioned that the inverter turns itself off when it is dark. I was a bit worried when I noticed on Friday morning, before sunrise, that it wasn't working!

Wendy came for the weekend on the 10:00 train on Friday morning. We went out to what used to be the Amazing Mill Market and is now the Ballarat Vintage and Collectibles Market and had a good potter round, plus a rather nice toastie and a rather weak coffee.. I haven't been in there since it change hands. It's been re-arranged but is still fun.

Lindsey, Wendy and I took Stella to the Bridge Mall Market on Saturday, called in to Black Pepper for Stella to buy some new clothes, had a sausage sizzle sandwich, visited Big W and had coffee and a(nother) toastie in Hudsons. Stella went to a Coronation afternoon tea in the care home. And we all watched the coronation on our various TVs - even Stella who watched it on her phone.

We re-gathered on Sunday and went to the Red Lion for lunch. It's on the main road heading into town. None of us had been there before. We will go again - although Lindsey thought: It's got smaller spaces than the Golden Point, not as open plan, much quieter and easier to hear, and I thought - It's got smaller spaces than the Golden Point, not as open plan, not as bright and light! The food was good. No alcohol free wine though.

Wendy went home. Stella went home. Lindsey and I went out to Delacombe for pet food and to the supermarket. Then I went home and so did Lindsey

It was very cold this weekend. Apparently a polar blast had made its way up from the Antarctic. I initially read the report as saying that there was a polar bear making its way up from the Antarctic. This was briefly puzzling. There aren't any polar bears in the Antarctic!

I regularly remember to look up when I am out and about in Ballarat. Lots of the laneways and alleyways have pretty thing overhead

It turns out that you should also look down:

The tiny things along this laneway have,
apparently, been there for a very long time.
I have not noticed them before

Ian and Lindsey came around and helped move the top of the dresser into the garage and the base between the two cabinets. The dining room looks very good (although perhaps like a dining room in a guest house or B&B!)

And somebody came yesterday and took away the freezer which had been in the garage. I had noticed on the Ballarat Buy Nothing Group on Facebook that a food pantry in a kindergarten/childcare centre/ maternal and infant health clinic was looking for a freezer so it could accept donations from the supermarkets. Mine wasn't doing anything useful so I offered it. Nice to think of it doing something useful in the community.

Stella in the warm and cosy pub,
on a cold and breezy Sunday