Wednesday 13th June 2012

 The restored jewellery

 A wonderful photo of me wearing the bracelet

The original bracelet

This week has been miserable with all the non stop wet weather just about every day.  The only up side is that I had a wonderful opportunity to do a much needed clean out of my wardrobe, spare bedrooms and the linen press as well as making an impact on my photo graveyard - all indoor sports requiring my undivided attention.  An added bonus was having Peter on the Gold Coast all week playing in a golf tournament with his mates which gave me the house to myself to organise myself without interruption.  From that point of view the rain was good.  I could not be distracted by golf or the gardens.  The results have been very pleasing & I will need more than a trailer to offload all the accumulated "things" that I am disposing of.

Tuesday 5th June 2012 the Ladies Golf was washed out with heavy rain.  I had ordered on line through last week some clothing racks and shoe racks with the intention of turning one of the spare bedrooms into a walk in wardrobe for my "accumulated" clothes & shoes.  The clothing racks arrived so I spent the day cleaning out and setting up the room for a wardrobe.

Wednesday 6th June 2012 the rain  continued and the Men's golf was washed out as well.  We went to Erina for the morning as Peter wanted to pick up some clothes to take away to the Gold Coast for his week of golf and I needed to have my reading glasses repaired as I had lost the lens out of one side of the glasses (probably while I was nursing Emily as Anne found the lens at her place).  My shoe racks had arrived so Peter helped me to put them together.  While at Erina I bought another couple of clothes racks and hangers so I could complete the walk in wardrobe.  The room came together well and I had no trouble filling it up

Thursday 7th June 2012 Peter wanted to see Joel and Emily before he left for the Gold Coast so we went out to Erina to watch Joel play with the "Little Kickers" which teaches him soccer skills.  We met Anne out at Erina and looked after Emily while Anne participated in the "Little Kickers" with Joel.  Emily has not been well for the last week having a chest infection and an ear infection both of which required antibiotics. We had lunch with Anne at Erina and the I spent the afternoon working on my wardrobe.

Friday 8th June 2012 Peter left for the Gold Coast at 6.00am and I spent the day washing everything in sight including sheets, towels, clothes and anything else I could find as it was a rare sunny day that could not be wasted. I went over to the golf club gardens & cleaned up around the wedding garden area.  Rod rang to say that he was at home so I came home to see him.  The rest of the day I spent cleaning out the linen cupboard & working on the photo graveyard as well as doing all the ironing and cleaning the bathrooms etc.  That night I went to the Golf Club for dinner and the raffles and sat with the regulars who did not go to the Gold Coast.  I won a meat tray which was a bonus. Anne sent me a message to say that she was taking Emily into Hospital as she had been very unwell all day and was not improving.  I met her over at the hospital and stayed until 11 o'clock when the Doctor decided to put Emily on a drip and keep her overnight.

Saturday 9th June 2012 I met the Golf Club girls ( Di and Anne) & helped them to clean up the footpath area outside the club.  Rod called around to say that Emily and Anne were still at the hospital.  I wet up with Rod to see Anne & Emily and brought Joel back home to have a day sleep.  We went back to see how Anne was getting along about 3.30 when Joel woke up from his nap.  Emily was showing signs of improvement but was still on the drip.  The Doctor kept Emily in for Saturday night so Rod took Joel home.

Sunday 10th June 2012 it rained heavily all day.  Rod rang to say Anne & Emily were home from hospital & Emily was doing well. Golf was cancelled so I spent the day cleaning out cupboards, scanning photos etc. I am making some good inroads with the photos and would say I am about half way through.

Monday 11th June 2012 it was pouring rain again so F-Troop was cancelled.  I spent all day between photos and cupboards and have accumulated a heap of black plastic bags in the lounge room ready for throw out.

Tuesday 12th June 2012 the rain continued and golf was cancelled.  I spent the day much like Monday getting quite a lot of things sorted out. I have found a lot of things that I had quite forgotten about so the clean out has been good.  Shane called in to see how I was doing.  He stayed for a cuppa & took home his hard copy photos that I had already scanned into the computer so he can decide if he wants to keep them or not.

Wednesday 13th June 2012 (today) we had even more rain and golf was again cancelled.  I spent the morning moving clothes around and deciding what else I could cull.  I am such a terrible hoarder & keep all kinds of sentimental things.  I have taken a hard line & out they have gone.  This afternoon it was still raining so I went into Gosford to do some shopping and to pick up some jewellery that I have been having restored for Emily.  It is her first birthday on Saturday so I am giving her my baby bracelet that had been sitting at the bottom of my jewellery box for 60 years.  That and a bluebird locket that I will give her when she is a little older.  We have a good manufacturing jeweller in Gosford who made my "Greg" necklace and he had done a wonderful job of restoring the bracelet in 9 caret gold and it has come up beautifully.  Emily probably won't wear it until she is old enough to appreciate and look after it.

Peter has had a lot of rain in Queensland and it has been cold & windy so they are looking forward to the weather improving before they come home on Saturday.

Tomorrow I am going to Erina with Anne for the morning to look after Emily while Joel is at "Little Kickers" In the afternoon I am off to the hairdressers for a much needed hair cut & colour.  Then I will be feeling much better