Final's fever flashed furiously over the weekend, beginning on Thursday night, concentrating on Friday and rounding out on Sunday as the exhausted viewers finally drew breath and contemplated on results and upcoming fixtures. My adopted AFL team, the Richmond Tigers, dealt Hawthorn a lethal blow on Thursday night, meaning they now luxuriate in a week off to lick their wounds, and are just one more win away from a grand final berth.
Wol's boys were both recovering from an illness so I went round to his place to watch the big Geelong game on Friday night. I got more than I bargained for when I realized he had the game on delay and the two boys were still up and racing around. I played with their robots, read them books and even got a kiss goodnight for my troubles: too bad it didn't stick as they were both skittering around escaping their room for some time after that! Eventually we got some clean air to watch the game and although it was pretty entertaining, Wol's team, Geelong, lost to a rampaging opposition.
Cass went up to "Lady", the seamstress to get some more of her old clothes adjusted and re-modeled on Saturday afternoon. She wasn't sure whether to go ahead or not, but she has some top quality gear made from the finest materials. This coupled with lady's cheap prices and skillful sewing made her decision for her. After our usual shopping rounds and weekly stock-ups, we ordered some delicious Oggi Pizza for the late afternoon on Saturday, then scooterd home before some prodigious thunderstorms flooded the suburb making a cozy hideaway of our apartment. The rain continued to bother and sheet at various intervals through Sunday, and the temperature dropped a few degrees making it almost bearable for a stint after a long brutal summer that has witnessed almost unrelenting enervating heat and humidity.
We took advantage of the inclement weather to binge watch some quality TV, this time in the shape of "Cardinal", a Canadian crime thriller. We managed to watch all six episodes over the weekend as it was heroin addictive and gasp-inducing thrilling. It was one of those shows that you want to eke out over a period, but just couldn't stop watching!
Our great friends, Shaun and Katie, are leaving mid-year in December and returning to Australia and their new home and jobs in Hobart. One of our other colleagues is organizing a farewell PowerPoint for them and I made our slide the other day. The photo above is the collage I put together: the most notable thing is the preponderance of alcohol, friends and fun times... we'll really miss them.
Photos: a park we walk through to and from school, Virgy's head, Wol's new upstairs studio at his apartment, Cass getting some fittings at Lady's, Peri Peri at Carrefour (hooray!), the changing face of the suburb, and Shaun and Katie's collage.