Tuesday 8th January 2013

It was a rather eventful week in one way or another.  The heatwave hit today - thank heavens for air conditioners.

Wednesday 2nd January 2013 Peter played golf and I spent the day working in the garden and around the house.  I was expecting the arrival of the new buffet for the kitchen the next day so I had to start sorting a few things out.  Graham rang from Copacabana where he is spending his Christmas break & said he was playing golf at Gosford as well.  Graham called in after golf to say hello & have a catch up as we had not had a chance to see each other since Christmas Day.

Thursday 3rd January 2013 Rod brought Joel & Emily over for a visit as he was in charge of babysitting this week while Anne had been at work.  While they were here the Kitchen Buffet arrived and thankfully fitted beautifully into the space we had in the kitchen.  I am very happy with the look of it and I have got so much more storage room now.

Friday 4th January 2013 I was up early to wash the kitchen curtains and Peter helped me to clean the windows. We went into Gosford and bought a runner for the top of the buffet and a round table cloth for the dining room.  Peter decided that we should go out to lunch so we went to Woy Woy and ended up having lunch at the Old Woy Woy pub - just because it was there.  It was fairly basic in the restaurant and there were a heap of holiday makers there which made it rather noisy.  That evening we went to the Golf Club for dinner and Raffles and managed to win a meat tray.

Saturday 5th January 2013 Peter played golf with Graham and I spent the day sorting out cupboards and filling up the spaces in the kitchen buffet.  That was quiet a job as I am such a bad hoarder eg I found enough Christmas cards/birthday cards/gift wrapping/gift cards/sticky tape/ribbons to last us for about 5 years. All were filed away neatly in different places that I forget about and then I go out and buy more.  I have them all filed together in one place now - so I have no excuse.  I have been able to put up our electronic photo display units now and I am going to change the photos over every couple of days so that we have new photos there every time we walk past. The sun room looks better for a clean up.

Sunday 6th January 2013 we went over to Rod & Anne's to see Joel and Emily before going to golf. We were playing golf with Wally & Rhonda Robertson.  They were great fun and we had a good day made even better when I won the Ladies Comp. with 39 points.  That evening we went to the Gosford Hotel for dinner with some of our friends from the Golf Club.  The Club does not open for dinner on Sunday nights so we have had to find some alternatives.

Monday 7th January 2013 we were up early for F-Troop 7.00am start.  We had a lot of garden watering to do as there was a predicted 43 degree heatwave due on Tuesday.  We worked through until 1.30 getting as much done as possible. When we arrived home Rod was there with Joel and Emily as he was in charge of babysitting again this week while Anne is working.  Luckily Rod had holidays at this time of the year when Joel and Emily's kindergarten is closed for holidays so it has worked out okay.  Joel helped me in the garden cleaning up some weeds and picked some ripe tomatoes for our lunch.  Joel and Emily both love the iPad games and enjoy playing games when they come over. That evening I spent some time getting water into the gardens in preparation for the heatwave.

Tuesday 8th January 2013 (today) I was up early to water the front gardens and to pick some of the open roses before they got burnt off in the heat.  I decided not to play golf today as the weather was going to be so intense. We went out to Bunnings to get a few things and also bought a new pressure cleaner from Repco as our old one needed to be retired.  My new cartridges for my "photo cube" arrived in the mail which I needed to collect from the post office.  So I am all set up to print off my photos straight from my iPhone or iPad now.  The weather was really hot by lunch time, reaching 40 degrees  so we went home and turned on the air conditioner and spent the rest of the day relaxing in the cool while everything was sweltering outside.

Thankfully there is a cool change coming through tonight and tomorrow should be okay and hopefully we get some showers to help the gardens out.