April 23, 2013

  • Tuesday 23rd April

     

     

     

    I woke at 5am and decided I needed to stay in bed.

    Thankfully I was able to sleep for an extra 2 hours.

    Seb came up in the boat soon after 7:30am and took Anson and the wwoofers out fishing for the morning.

    I had a headache and was feeling absolutely rubbish.

    Decided to have a soak in the bath with my book.

    Haven't had a bath in ages - took me a while to find my special Japanese bath salts, finally got right down on my benders and found were hidden right at the very back of the cupboard.

    I love them, lavender fragrence and of course the colour is divinely relaxing.

    Once I was out and dressed I spent some time answering emails.

    They were mostly the lawyer requiring me to find information which took ages.

    I was not feeling that great and the whole deal just tipped me over the edge.

    I was getting really upset with it all so decided I needed to go for a walk.

    I sat down to put on my walking shoes when I just felt so completely overwhelmed and just cried and cried.

    Haven't cried like that is a while.

    I walked around to see Marah with tears pouring down my face.

    Going past the boat trailer was just another reminder that Tim is gone.

    Dirt tumbled down the bank past me and I looked up to see I was being observed from above.

    The road is drying out but still very boggy in places.
    Anson has put some gravel and stones on this patch but they just sink in.

    Marah was pleased I had come to visit.

    We sat and talked.

    I couldn't stop crying.

    I had a look at her baby room.

    She is painting a really cool mural in there, bright and colourful and fun.

    She got out all her photos so we had a look through them and she popped some on a memory stick for me.

    Anson arrived back at midday.

    They had caught some fish and had a cook up on the boat.

    He left the wwoofers to have some soup while he came home.

    I hitched a ride back with him.

    He loaded up Tim's set of drawers and took them back to Marah.

    Then he took Pierre & Etienne up the hill to grub weeds.

    Nils & Aylin peeled carrots and onions for the stirfry.

    Then the swept the deck and hosed down and swept out the washhouse and back entrance concrete.

    Shoshannah's chickens insist on coming down to visit and leave their calling cards everywhere.

    It is driving me nuts!

    N&A then went up and carried on stacking timber.

     

    I got dinner ready.

    Went up to the garden to find some silverbeet as I had seen there is an abundance at present.

    Chopped it up for the stirfry along with some broccoli.

    Made a small pear crumble for dessert.

    Made an aubergine, onion & tomato dish for dinner tomorrow night.

    Made a smaller one and cooked it for my lunch.

    Fried up some fresh blue cod to eat with it.

    It was delicious.

    Ate it while I read my book.

     

     

    While the wwoofers ate their dinner I sat and read my book.

    Then I sorted through old photos.

    They were all gone from the house by 8:30pm so I brought my dessert to bed and carried on sorting photos for a while.

    It has been a really low day.