Wednesday 18th June 2025

Wednesday 18^th June

SHE SAID:

We had two outings today. Lunch was first, with John & Michael in Henfield, at John’s place, Red Oaks. The staff made an effort putting us in a nice lounge, linen on the table, wine glasses, the whole works. We were served a 3-course meal, which was good.

We finished up in the reception area lounge for a cuppa, chatting on till nearly 4pm.

Then, Geoff & I headed out around 6.15pm, to Siobhan & Dickie’s place, for drinks & nibbles. They live a couple of streets away from Mum’s, so we walked there. We had a chatty few hours with them & a friend of theirs who is moving to Australia in September & wanted to pick our brains.

 HE SAID:

Today was a busy one for me, sort of. With the second State of Origin match at 11am I ducked in to Horsham’s town centre to get a couple of small things, making sure that I was back, showered, and ready to go to John’s in time for the kick off. All good. Around noon the three of us drove over to Henfield for lunch with John and Michael. I was rather impressed with the food. There was a limited choice of courses, as expected, but the meals we all had were good. Quite a step up from what my dad was regularly offered at Bupa Calwell in Canberra.

After a couple of hours back at Jan’s Varena and I wandered down to Shiv and Dickie’s for a light supper. Their house and yard were quite impressive, with the back yard probably 40m long. The new caravan was also impressive, being a touch longer than ours, which seems extra large to most people we’ve mentioned it to. We enjoyed the company outside in the pleasant evening for a few hours.