A Street in Kyneton

No Double Cream

Above: Australian sewing magazines

I am now home but due to getting behind in my diary, I still have a few more stories to tell, so the trip continues as I get caught up. I thought it was all over but the airline delays in Melbourne presented a whole new set of delightful people with their own stories, which I will relate soon. My friends and rellies loaded me with reading material and ipad movies, including The Great British Sewing Bee Series, but I was sitting between two super interesting people who kept me so entertained there was no chance to look at the quilting and craft magazines sent with me.

 

There is no commerical double-cream here and so I sing "No Double Cream" to the tune of "O Solo Mio" but someone has just told me there may be a Jersey cow owned by a nearby farmer, and I am "going for it." It was found on the local Craig's List.

 

I am relieved that I have no jet lag, but sadly, I am having caravan-park (trailer park) withdrawal, so I am looking at trailer rubber stamps for my new writing paper.

Found the farmers milk from the cow next door. Now researching how to get double cream from that top portion of the jars.

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The Dandenongs and Sassafras

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The Christian Chronicle: Sew in love

The Christian Chronicle: Sew in love

City Lights, Tea with Another Friend and Pretty Antiques

 

Tonight I attempted to get some of the lights around the peninsula on camera.

 

taken from a place called Portsea on a very cloudy night. I am not familiar enough with the ipad camera to be able to take night time pictures.

 

 

 

City lights in the distance.

On a peninsula like this one. You can see another city from just about anywhere, and various points like this one, above, have parking area where you can see another city from that vantage.

The park manager's family has been a great help and work hard to maintain the grounds and facilities here, plus constantly waiting on me at the office and shop for my many requests. Today, Saturday, Jo drove me to the train tea room, where we ate toasted sandwiches and drank cups of tea served from a teapot. Jo told me I was old enough to be her mother. She lost her mother to illness when she was just 18.

Jo also had a frothy cinnamon drink.

 

Jo was interested in looking at the Tyabb Packing House antique store and she liked the same things I liked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A New Friend

 

Today a senior resident in the seniors caravan park brought me thse apples grown right here in this area: Granny Smith, Pink Lady and Golden Delicious. I chopped one and cooked in the tiny crock pot, drizzled with a little honey and then added Devon cream.

The lady invited me for a cup of tea, and then upon learning that I valued tea cups, reached up high to a shelf in her kitchen and gave this cup! She bought it in 1948.

 

 

In her home was this sturdy, colorful dryer rack.

She gave me a book she had written about the history of the Mornington Peninsula, which contained pages and pages of her own drawings.

 

Included in the book was the history of the Tyabb packing house, which was used to process tons of apples. The Tyabb packing house is now an antique store, and next to it is the old red train that is now a tea room.

Lelia Shaw and me.

I wish I had met her weeks ago and had visited her often but the end of my visit to Victoria is near.

 

I was taken on a tour today by another park resident to see how the other half live---that is, the part of the population outside of the caravan (trailer) park lives.

I was so happy to find these Australian tie tacks for the men in my family.

 

 

 

These pictures were supposed to catch the lights of Melbourne in the distance.

Betty showed me the bedspread she crocheted. There is a story behind it which I might tell, later.

When I got home i found another treasure. It is a cutting knife that has a handle that has the flat side up; more comfortable to use.

 

A friend showed me a website that sold Candle wraps for led lites. I wonder why I did not think of making them. I made some with paper, today, cutting around the paper to make a melted candle effect.

 

 

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