Saturday 26th September 2009

It has only been a few days since I have updated my blog but there has been so much happened in that time that another update was necessary.

Tuesday 22nd September 2009 I played in the 27 hole Foursomes Championships with my partner Rosemary Cohen. Our other playing partners were Rosalie Dyer and Pam Bourne. The weather was not as bad as predicted so we had a good day. After a shaky start in the first nine where I put my partner out on the wrong fairway for a start, we managed to put together a really good back nine and an average 9 to finish up winning a ball on the day.
Tuesday was the AGM meeting where I manned the door to register the members into the meeting. After all the drama leading up to the election the Board remained unchanged except for one retiring director's position which had not been challenged.

Wednesday 23rd September was a day of wild winds and dust storms. For some reason I did not think to take of photo of the early morning dust storm when the sky was a weird bright orange colour. My house got filled with dust in every crevice which I am still trying to get out.

I needed to go to the golf gardens as a member had donated about 80 odd agapanthus plants which had to be planted out immediately. That was a challenge in the dust and wind. I also had to replant and stake some lillies that I had planted earlier in the week as they did not withstand the wild wind. A lovely old tree fern was also destroyed by the wind which was a shame.

Thursday 24th September I played golf at Asquith with 18 of the Gosford Lady golfers in a special Vets Open Day. The weather was perfect and we had carts which made it easier to get around the course which was lovely but very undulating. We did not win any prizes but had a great day.

Friday 25th September was a huge day starting with "my day in court". As a victim I did not participate at all but was able to witness the sentencing set down by the Judge which resulted in a 20 year sentence (after consective serving of time was processed) reduced by 6 years for an early guilty plea & other allowances as the Judge considered appropriate. The end result was 14 years with 10yrs non parole. A good result I thought - so I can now close the door and get on with my life. In the afternoon I did a "Dust" clean throughout the house as best I could but the dust seems to have got in every crevice - so it could be an ongoing chore for a while.

That evening we had dinner at the Golf Club with Anne & Mark Stimpson and their friends & then went to watch their daughter Louise perform in a concert by the Central Coast Post School Options group at the Laycock Theatre. The children are all handicapped in some way & it was a joy to see them all having such a good time performing on stage.

After the concert we joined another group of Gosford golfers at Alexanders Restaurant to celebrate Judy Verlander's 70th birthday, a birthday of Arthur Verlander and Debbie Grinham in addition to celebrating Clyde & Lyn Cruickshanks 40th wedding anniversary. I gave Judy a big bunch of flowers from my garden - those that survived the dust storm.

Whew! big, big day!

Saturday 26th September 2009 (today) was a recovery day which I spent very quietly grocery shopping, picking up some bags of potting mix for Monday's F-Troop work, catching up on the ironing, watching Geelong win the AFL Grand Final and watering the gardens. We had more dust storms and wind again today but it was not as bad as Wednesday. Just as well I did not get around to cleaning up outside as it would have been all back again today.

We found out today that one of our team members of our "Team Series" cannot play tomorrow for the final round because of a serious eye problem. That is a pity as we are coming second place, 3 points behind the leaders. Not to worry we will just have to put in a extra effort & come up with something special tomorrow. It has been a fun series so whatever the outcome we will have a good day.

Today was the first day of the rest of my life - so it is onward Ho!