It's supposed to be spring!

As forecast, today is bleak and freezing cold! The sun was out this morning, but we only had to step outside to walk up to our Saturday morning breakfast to know that the second cold front is almost here. It's Grand final day (Australian Rules Football, folks) in Melbourne, and the weather will be lousy. Snow down to 500 metres, rain, hail and wind. two days ago it was in the high twenties (Centigrade) and we were in short sleeves. We were in Melbourne, and yesterday morning when we ventured out to catch a tram, it had rained and as we sat on the tram there was an almighty crack of thunder and down it came. Ah, raincoats in our case back at our accommodation! Things were being set up for the AFL football parade. Normally players sit in the backs of utes or sporty cars but they were inside this time. We weren't interested as our team didn't make it to the Grand final.
Tomorrow is my Mum's birthday. She would have been 88. I still miss her.
Here's a piccie of her from the 1970s.

Spring is in the air at last!

Spring really is in the air.  It's going to warm up towards the end of the week. We will be in Melbourne for a couple of days which will constitute our 'holiday' for this term break. Oh well. Before we know it we'll be into term 4 and rushing towards the end of the year. We are hanging off making any bookings for our UK trip next year until I get the go-ahead for my long service. Don't you love bureaucracy? In the meantime I've juiced (with the help of Laird Peter) a pile of our lovely limes and we've frozen some as iceblocks, I've cleaned out cupboards in the bathroom and I've washed a large collection of old plain pillowslips to use with my students. It's a good drying day.Nice to do those sorts of jobs.
Enjoying a sit down and have been chatting to a friend who is in hospital in Ballarat. Isn't technology wonderful?

September is almost over and officially it will be the end of the Highland Titles blog competition. I enjoy doing my blog, and will be continuing it. I don't get to do it as much as I'd like, but it is nice to do and to reflect on what's going on.

I might finish this one with a pic. Haven't got a lot, but let's see...

A Sisters' Lunch

The weather is trying to decide whether it's still winter or should it be spring. Nice to go out though. I had lunch today with my two sisters - something we don't do often - nice to be girly and talk about girly stuff. We had good food and coffee then went for a bit of retail therapy. Inevitably we ended up in a dress shop where things were 50% off so of course we all bought something!

Last night we saw one of Gryff Rhys Jones' programs on Rivers. Just happened to be on the River Tay in lovely old Scotland. Ahhhh!
It was filmed in autumn and the colours were glorious. We're just under twelve months off our trip to the UK, where we will be spending more time in Scotland, and of course visiting our wee plots! There are always programs on TV to tempt us further and if you read this blog regularly, you'll know that I spend a lot of time writing 'AAAAAHHHH!'

Gosh, it's already September and nearly holidays. Oh to be in Scotland now! (midges and all).