2012

This is the Jigsaw that took 3 of us at leat 4 days over christmas/ new year to complete. It was a very difficult one to complete, for starters, the picture was mirror image reversed!









After I returned t0 SA, I went up to Clare to my friend Yvonnes', we saw the
T Tour Downunder cycle race finish of the first leg at Clare. And I helped them with their Lions fundraiser gourmet sausage sizzle. It was getting pretty hot.
I moved down to Elizabeth to Adele and Geoffs', once again we sat around in the heat, but first , Geoff took me to the SA last cricket game . Up at 6am to queue for the best seats in the members grandstand. While we were waiting, the ABC was broadcasting, It was so hot the presenter had his shorts on bemneath his jacket and tie! We were killing ourselves!
We saw ponting and Clarke hit their double centuries! It was really thrilling to be present at this great match.

I finished off the week by helping Adele get her quilt finished (she bought it in Geraldton on the cruise where we met!) I felt I could leave after I got her well and truly on the way to finishing it. Now I am on the way to Loxton again to visit some more with my family history buff, cousin Pauline.
I promise to get my blogs happening more regularly now!
regards
vicki

2012

Hi Everyone! don't faint! I haven't forgotten you all, just ben incredibly lazy on one hand , and indescribably frantic with the other!
I hope you all had a great, or at least a good, Christmas, and a riotous New Year! Me, I spent New Years eve with my South Yunderup sister, and we worked on Sydney time, 3 hours ahead of us , watched the fireworks from Sydney at (9 pm and went to bed!
To fill you in on my trials and tribulations! I left the motorhome at Adelaide in storage , and flew back to WA on Dec 15th, picked up a hire car from the airport and feel like I have been glued to the seat ever since! EG. drove south to Sth Yunderup, stayed the night, drove south to Bunbury to elder sisters home, stayed for a couple of nights during which I drove down to Busselton to see Mum, (she's doing fine!) back to Bunbury and saw my daughter and 5 grandies! My daughter is going through a messy separation , plus a few other problems, don't get me started! It has ben all down hill from there! (not really!) I have been up and down from Sth Y. to Bunbury and Bussselton so many times I can't tell whether I'm Arthur or Martha! Been to specialists, Taxation Accountantants, financial planners, caught up with a few friends, did my duty at the Patchwork Schoolhouse in Pinjarra, inspected my house there also, and you can seee what I mean? Finally took off to Perth again to catch a friend whom I have travelled with previously, and then on to Geraldton after another Drs visit.
Had a lovely dinner with my lovely son and his wife and 3 grandies, and had a relaxing 2 days with my wonderful sewing (and ex-nursing friends) Meg and Lyn, missed out on a couple of freinds as they are away, caught up with all the local gossip, and am getting myself ready to drive down south again for 1 last visit with Mum, and see how much sorting out I still need to do for Genevieve, I fly back to SAon Tuesday the 10th.
Whew! I am exhausted again, just writing it all down!
So in closing I wish you all a happy and healthy and prosperous New Year, and I know I missed catching up with a few WA folk I said I would catch up with, but I will be back in April!
 God Bless you all
love Vicki