Hamilton Island, May 2025

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Busy

I've been quite busy this last week or so.

Things have been busy at work. We are preparing for an accreditation visit in August or September. We have appraisals and meetings and training to organise, plus absolutely masses of paperwork to get done. (I originally typed "asses of paperwork" which I might not disagree with 😂), not to mention all the usual activity of the business.

I have been busy at home. The initial stages of the proposed sale of my place are underway.  A handyman has been and is coming again this morning to finish those few things that needed doing, such as painting a couple of kitchen cupboards and touching up some paintwork on the walls. A photographer is coming at lunchtime to get the advertising underway. Then the estate agent and I will talk on Tuesday and the first open day will happen the following Saturday.

The house is pretty much ready for the photos. I need to do a quick tidy, sweep the floors and hide the cat bowls and general paraphernalia, such as the oil bottles in the kitchen. I might even set the dining room table so it looks like a dining room table and not like a desk.

I have done quite a bit of work in the garden but there is still lots to do. A lot of it will be done by the time the first open inspection happens. But gardens are never finished. I will do my best.  I have planted more pea and broad bean seeds out the front and taken down some of the bamboo canes. I have cleared the little flower bed out the front ready for next season's planting. I have been weeding along the back garden bed, which isn't finished but will be by Saturday week. I have not really tackled the back walkway but definitely need to. Oh - and I should really sweep the patio before the photos!

I am quite pleased with this bed. It has a Bramley apple tree, a Tahitian lime tree and a miniature peach tree, plus various bedding plants. There is an asparagus bed behind it.



There has been time for a bit of fun as well. Lindsey and I went to the Red Lion for lunch last Sunday. We haven't been there since we went with Stella a couple of weeks before she died. So a year ago! I'm not sure why we haven't been since. They do a good Sunday roast, with  lots of roast meat and lots of well cooked vegetables. We still have the Buninyong pub on our list, but you need to book well in advance for a lunch table on Sundays. We tend to think about Lunch Out much closer to the time.  We'll get there.


Had I been in  Tupton rather than Ballarat I would have been very suspicious of these clouds, which were travelling south to north, rather than the more usual west to east



Fortunately, they delivered nothing more exciting than some icy drizzle. I am looking eastward towards Lindsey and Ian's hill. They may have got more than drizzle.

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