Yesterday was the Australia Day public holiday. Australia Day itself was on Sunday but the day off was observed on Monday.
Not that this particularly affected me. I don't usually work on Mondays anyway, and anything that I might have wanted to do yesterday was available. As it happens, I only went to the IGA with Lindsey.
It was very hot yesterday. It was one of the hottest days we've had in Ballarat for quite some years. A cool change came through overnight and today is a very pleasant summer's day.
I was watering the gardens yesterday morning, ahead of the heat later in the day. I looked over the fence from the front yard to the back and thought: "That leaf looks very much like a small apple!" I went to investigate, and much to my surprise it was a small apple. I wasn't expecting to get any apples this year. That little tree had produced blossom but the tree next to it had not. Someone nearby must have an apple tree
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The flowers smell delightful |
Apart from farewelling Hugo and lunching at the Shared Table on Sunday, I mostly did regular weekend things. A Japanese lesson then a wander around the Lakeside market on Saturday morning. Top up supermarket shopping. Some gentle tidying in the house, a potter in the garden.
I did get hugely frustrated with the carpet in the lounge room. I am frustrated by all the carpet, really, but especially in the lounge room. There are lots of dead flies on the floor and they all seem to die around the skirting boards and are very difficult to remove. There is cat fur embedded in the carpet; it is almost impossible to remove, even with the carpet scraper, carpet sweeper, stiff bristled broom and vacuum cleaner. I get flies and cat fur on the tiles in the dining room and kitchen as well. They take about 10 minutes to remove with a standard, ordinary broom. I have sent to a carpet company to see how much it will cost to have the carpet in the lounge room replaced with laminate flooring!
I am working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week and then I have four weeks off. I have about 12 weeks of Long Service Leave and 10 weeks of annual leave sitting waiting to be used. I thought perhaps I should make a start on using it.
Your garden is awesome and I love the pic of the rose.
ReplyDeleteThe carpet sounds really frustrating. Replacing it sounds like the sensible thing to do, but what upheaval! Good luck.
The carpet has frustrated me ever since we moved in. If I only have the lounge room done it shouldn't be too disruptive. They're coming on Tuesday to measure and give a quote
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