Easter Weekend

I made another attempt to visit the new Costco on my way home on Wednesday. This time I managed to make it into the car park. But there were no available parking spaces and when spaces became available the cars ahead of me got them. If the (enormous) car park was full, then Costco was likely to be unpleasantly full. I cut my losses, left and came home.

I had a fairly quiet day on Thursday. A quick trip to the Post Office for Lindsey, a visit to Hill House, a trip to the IGA.  I spent most of the day sorting out one of the garden beds in the back yard and tidying the house.

On Good Friday, Lindsey and I went to Victoria Park to check out the Easter Extravaganza Festival. It was marketed as a Street Food Festival, with additional market stalls. We went at about 3pm, which isn't really eating time, so there wasn't much we really wanted to buy. Good Friday was glorious, from a weather point of view, so the market was very crowded. We did a circuit and wandered off.

Wendy came to Ballarat on Saturday and we went out to the Avalon Nursery for lunch and a wander around. Both Lindsey and Wendy thought I meant Avalon Airport when I suggested a visit to Avalon. You couldn't even go plane spotting - it's too small and there aren't many planes to spot!

The weather has been lovely for the past week or so. Warm, sunny, dry. So it was almost inevitable that Easter Sunday would be cool, wet, windy and thundery. Fortunately, the weather cleared at lunchtime. It was a small gathering by our standards, although most families would probably have thought it quite large. We scattered Jim's, Rupert's and Hugo's ashes, together with some of Stella and Tony's in a scrubby bit of the garden at Hill House. Easter Sunday seemed an appropriate day to do it. Jim loved being in the garden at Hill House and was almost always accompanied by Rupert and Hugo. Stella and Tony always enjoyed their visits to Lindsey and Ian's place and especially enjoyed a good family Sunday Lunch. We sent Jim on his way with the can of Quick Brown Fox ruddy ale that I bought for him; we left some dog treats for Rupert and Hugo. Then the rest of us repaired inside for a magnificent Easter Lunch, prepared by Lindsey and Ian.

Wendy and I are about to head to Pompeii for breakfast and then she is heading home. If it doesn't rain this afternoon, I might plant some of the seedlings I bought at Avalon. And get myself ready to go to work tomorrow. I need to focus on going to work tomorrow. I very seldom work on Tuesdays but I am covering someone who is on leave this week. Must remember to go!!

Good Friday skies and Cosmos: