Sorry – it’s been a little while since I
last updated, and I’m starting to get reminders!
We’ve had quite a busy (for us) couple
of weeks, managing without our oven which has decided to spit the dummy (now we’re
just waiting for a switch – but you don’t realise how much you rely on the oven
until you don’t have it). While we wait we’re giving it a proper clean – quite an
overdue task, but one that I can reach quite well from a wheelchair height.
Interestingly, the electrician who came to
check out the oven, also told me of ‘natural cures for cancer that no-one wants
to talk about’ – and this morning when Brian went outside he found at the door
a book kindly left from the electrician “The Top Ten Natural Cancer Cures”. Perhaps now I should explore ‘Qigong’, ‘Essiac Tea’ or ‘Turkey Tail
Mushrooms’? I’ll probably hear more when
he returns with the oven switch. Sigh... cancer is such a vexing pathway to navigate.
It’s spring – and because it has been
such a wet winter, it seems that it’s a very good year for finding native
orchids in the local bushland. To that end, last week we went for an overnight
stay in Stawell in order to ‘check out’ some of the spots Brian has found in
previous years – and yes, he was a very happy boy with the photos he was able
to take of various orchids - including some spider orchids with different
colourings to his previous photos. We also met up with two of Brian’s mates
from Hamilton, and the three boys very happily traipsed their way around the
bush, looking for the more unusual bush specimens. I was happy too, enjoying a
lovely read from my kindle with the window wound down so I could see, hear and
smell the bushland. I also used my ‘Aldi’ walker to take the odd gentle stroll
around. And the drive through Hall’s Gap and Mirranatwa Gap never fails to take
your breath away as you wind through the mountain ranges which were coated in
wattle and heath.
Brian also took a photo of this very
rare pure white magpie – only found in a very localised spot out of Hamilton
(that we know of).
Meanwhile this morning Brian has
energetically given the car a darn good clean, following our recent bush drives
- and I was extremely pleased to hear that he found a dead huntsman spider (clearly
the result of the hefty dose of Mortein sprayed around the car following my
horrified sighting of the huntsman some time ago).
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