Monday 16th July 2012

Clare with her new baby son - "Fletcher"

It was a pretty ordinary week at times while I was recovering from that awful stomach virus and now am coming down with a head cold.  Peter was sick on Friday and over the weekend with a touch of the same virus that I had which was not good.  Some good happy news was Clare giving birth to a very healthy baby son named Fletcher.

Thursday 12th July 2012 I had a morning at Erina Fair with Anne, Joel and Emily.  It was another rainy cold day so we were better inside the shopping centre than out.  We had some lunch and did a bit of shopping after Joel finished "little kickers".   I have got a couple of videos on my Ipad for Joel but he always wants to watch his favourite "Cars" video which he will watch endlessly.  Emily was very well behaved and easy to look after.  While at Erina I bought some storage units for my costume jewellery so I can sort it all out in some meaningful order.  In the afternoon I did some more scanning of photos from my photo graveyard.

Friday 13th July 2012 Peter had come down with a touch of the stomach virus that I had previously.  I spent the morning out in the back gardens pruning the roses and filling up the green bins. In the afternoon I did some more photos and downloaded some good books from Audible so I can listen to them when I have time and will be useful to have on the flight to the USA to kill a few hours.

Saturday 14th July 2012 we did a quick household shopping trip and called into Officeworks so I could pick up some USB memory sticks and some printer ink.  I have made some good inroads into my photo scanning this week and the project does not seem quite so daunting now - although I am a long way from being finished.

Sunday 15th July 2012 we did not visit the children for fear of passing on the stomach virus so we had an easy morning and went to golf at 11.00 oclock.  Our playing partners were Des & Yvonne Wilson and we had a good fun day.  I played fairly well except for a couple of holes so I am encouraged by that. The course is still rather heavy after all the rain so it can be hard going at times.  I won a ball and was happy with that. We stayed for dinner with our golf friends and then came home for a reasonable early night.

Monday 16th July 2012 (today) we were up early for F-Troop.  The weather has improved so I rushed through a load of washing before we left so I didn't waste the sunshine.  We had a busy morning at F-Troop as we did not have a lot of volunteers today.  We got home about 1.30 and my head cold was becoming evident with a sore throat and some sneezing.  Tomorrow we have a monthly medal stroke match so I will dose up with some cold and flu tablets tonight.

The weather this week is supposed to be nice and sunny so I am looking forward to some nice warmer days.