Monday 24th May 2010

It was rather an eventful week one way or another.

Tuesday 18th May 2010 I was to have played golf but the wet weather put me off. I am just getting over my virus of last week and did not want to freshen it up. I was up early to rescue a bunch of roses from the garden before they got too wet and damaged to pick. It is Yvonne Wilson's birthday tomorrow (the same day as Joel's) & I wanted to take her some roses tonight as I would be seeing her at the club to have a celebration. I spent most of the day researching through my photo files so that I can produce some portrait photos of the golf girls for a collage that is getting put together by the ladies. I have thousands of photos so it is very time consuming checking them all for the best photo. Tuesday night there was an Information Meeting at the golf Club which Peter had to chair. We had 230 people attend so it was quite a harrowing night however turned out to be a successful night once the beginning of the meeting settled down. We had a celebration drink with Yvonne & Des for Yvonne's birthday & after the meeting Col Matterson came home for coffee & toasted sandwiches which seemed appropriate after some stressful moments at the meeting. Col stayed the night as we chatted for a while and it was quite late by the time I updated the golfers blog.

Wednesday 19th May 2010 was Joel's first birthday. We were up early as Peter had more meetings and then golf. I spent the day in the golf club gardens tidying up a lot of areas including the native garden on the 6th where the Grevilleas that Graham & Anne have donated are just coming into flower. I worked until 3.30 in the afternoon. Later Yvonne called in home with a present for Joel for his birthday & we celebrated her birthday again over a cup of tea. We went over to Rod & Anne's for a family dinner with Shane & Sam to celebrate Joel's first birthday. Joel had a lovely day & was all tuckered out by 7.00. We bought him a "smart trike" for his birthday which he loved. He is very close to walking and has 4 teeth.

Thursday 20th May 2010 I went to Bunnings to get some more plants for the gardens & then spent the rest of the day catching up with my house, floors, ironing etc. Bit of an ordinary day.

Friday 21st May 2010 I had an easy day planting out the plants at the Golf Club Gardens & doing a bit more trimming & pottering around.

Saturday 22nd May 2010 we spent the day at the Rosehill Races in Sydney in a Private Box as guests of Ron & Lynn Puiatti. It was a very cold day but the rain confined itself to the coastal areas & we had a nice fine day thankfully cosy in the private box where we had a great view of the straight. We had a lovely day with good company. After the races we had dinner with Lynn & Ron at Michael's Restaurant at East Gosford where the rain finally caught up with us.

Sunday 23rd May 2010 started out to be a miserable day. Rod, Anne & Joel did not come over for their traditional breakfast as they had colds to deal with so we got to have a sleep in.

Our playing partners today were to have been Col & Kay Adams but Kay had just come down with the same virus I had the week before and had lost her voice. Needless to say Kay was not keen to brave the weather which was understandable. We waited for the weather to clear at midday & had a round with Doug & Robin Incoll who had also lost their intended partners. As it happened the weather cleared and we did not get a drop of rain. The girls beat the boys for the Keno ticket and I won the nearest the pin at the 8th & sank the putt for a birdie which were good highlights for the day. We stayed for dinner at the club with Col & Lauren Matterson who had also braved the weather.

Monday 24th May 2010 (today) we had a good mornings work with F-Troop starting at 7.00am.

We did a lot of raking and clearing of the tees and fairways and I got some fertilizer down around the camellias while there is some rain around to wash it in. I spent the afternoon cosy in front of the foxtel as the weather has turned quite cold. Tomorrow is threatening to be a wet weather day which is not good as we have our monthly medal stroke match on & I am supposed to be playing early.