Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, folks.
It's been a glorious Saturday here today. We left about 9 am to head south to see difficult child 1 'fighting' in medieval battle gear. He beleongs to one of those anachronistic societies and they were having a training day where they get together with other similar-minded groups and fight in a park somewhere.
The venue today was Berrima, a delightful picturesque touristy country town in the Southern Highlands. We've been wanting to take easy child 2/difficult child 2 with us there for ages but unfortunately she was too ill today. We'll have to make a special trip there with her in a few weeks' time.
We expected to be behind difficult child 1's party on the road so it was quite a surprise to get a call from him just after we left the expressway and reached Mittagong. "My mate's car's broken down, we're on the side of the road," he told us. He gave directions, we drove back (thankfully they were already off the freeway so we didn't have to backtrack halfway to Sydney to turn around). The poor bloke's car seems to have finally died, just after he's paid to have the head gasket fixed. Not a happy lad.
We loaded up our people mover with people, weapons, chain mail and headed back to Berrima, leaving difficult child 1 to drive in convoy with the tow truck and to bring the others later.
We found the venue eventually - there were no directions, just the town itself as the destination. Luckily it's a small town. It's about half the size of our home village, really small, so all we had to do was drive along the main street until we saw the knights and saracens in battle. We parked (in the shade of a large pine) and strolled around the local antique stores while we waited for our mob to arrive.
The last time we were in Berrima it was easter, and cold. A fine misty rain was falling then, we were wearing our winter gear. Today - very different. Summer-hot but with a pleasant mild breeze taking the edge off the heat. The cottages in the area are lovely, gardens overflowing with rambling roses. The smell of the place was heavenly - roses mixed with lilies and violets, and over it all, the scent of pine. easy child 2/difficult child 2 would have loved it, if she'd come.
husband took lots of photos, I need to load them onto my computer because I can use the images in my work.
We headed back home bringing daughter in law so difficult child 1 could drive the extra carload of blokes to their place. He arrived at our place about three hoursbehind us. By then we also had easy child & SIL1 who had come up to Sydney to go to her school reunion which was on this afternoon. They're staying tonight then heading back to Canberra in the morning. I've got to leave before everyone else though, I have a writers festival to go to. I'm looking forward to it.
husband was feeling a lot better today, well enough to drive to Berrima, but tonight his headache is back and he's decided he has to see a doctor on Monday about it.
difficult child 3's interview will be on TV tomorrow night. It's a story on a possible new treatment for autism. It will be available on the following website:
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/
However, it will be a few days after the program screens before the episode will be uploaded. I'll try and post separately. The show is a 60 Minutes type of thing but on a competing network. If you see stuff shot under a large tree, about a kid who lives near the beach - that's us. They also filmed us walking along the sand, crossing the creek on the footbridge. That was about 6 weeks ago, it's been a while.
Enjoy your Saturday.
Marg
It's been a glorious Saturday here today. We left about 9 am to head south to see difficult child 1 'fighting' in medieval battle gear. He beleongs to one of those anachronistic societies and they were having a training day where they get together with other similar-minded groups and fight in a park somewhere.
The venue today was Berrima, a delightful picturesque touristy country town in the Southern Highlands. We've been wanting to take easy child 2/difficult child 2 with us there for ages but unfortunately she was too ill today. We'll have to make a special trip there with her in a few weeks' time.
We expected to be behind difficult child 1's party on the road so it was quite a surprise to get a call from him just after we left the expressway and reached Mittagong. "My mate's car's broken down, we're on the side of the road," he told us. He gave directions, we drove back (thankfully they were already off the freeway so we didn't have to backtrack halfway to Sydney to turn around). The poor bloke's car seems to have finally died, just after he's paid to have the head gasket fixed. Not a happy lad.
We loaded up our people mover with people, weapons, chain mail and headed back to Berrima, leaving difficult child 1 to drive in convoy with the tow truck and to bring the others later.
We found the venue eventually - there were no directions, just the town itself as the destination. Luckily it's a small town. It's about half the size of our home village, really small, so all we had to do was drive along the main street until we saw the knights and saracens in battle. We parked (in the shade of a large pine) and strolled around the local antique stores while we waited for our mob to arrive.
The last time we were in Berrima it was easter, and cold. A fine misty rain was falling then, we were wearing our winter gear. Today - very different. Summer-hot but with a pleasant mild breeze taking the edge off the heat. The cottages in the area are lovely, gardens overflowing with rambling roses. The smell of the place was heavenly - roses mixed with lilies and violets, and over it all, the scent of pine. easy child 2/difficult child 2 would have loved it, if she'd come.
husband took lots of photos, I need to load them onto my computer because I can use the images in my work.
We headed back home bringing daughter in law so difficult child 1 could drive the extra carload of blokes to their place. He arrived at our place about three hoursbehind us. By then we also had easy child & SIL1 who had come up to Sydney to go to her school reunion which was on this afternoon. They're staying tonight then heading back to Canberra in the morning. I've got to leave before everyone else though, I have a writers festival to go to. I'm looking forward to it.
husband was feeling a lot better today, well enough to drive to Berrima, but tonight his headache is back and he's decided he has to see a doctor on Monday about it.
difficult child 3's interview will be on TV tomorrow night. It's a story on a possible new treatment for autism. It will be available on the following website:
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/
However, it will be a few days after the program screens before the episode will be uploaded. I'll try and post separately. The show is a 60 Minutes type of thing but on a competing network. If you see stuff shot under a large tree, about a kid who lives near the beach - that's us. They also filmed us walking along the sand, crossing the creek on the footbridge. That was about 6 weeks ago, it's been a while.
Enjoy your Saturday.
Marg