I Win

Wednesday the 28th I get a phone call,
"Are you Gloria McDougall?"
"Yes"
"Morwell Club here you've won a ham in the Christmas raffle."
YIPEEE!!!

Kirsten Throws a Tratrum

After The Concert

Anne said that she would come back to Morwell with me as
she wanted to buy some of the things she had been looking
at the other day for presents.

Turns out that David had driven her to Warragul but the
concert had not been too his liking so he said he would
look around the shops and he would come and pick her up
when she rang.

By the time we got back to Morwell it was lunch time and
I took her to Claudia's. After that she rang David and
we went around to the shop were she picked up the items she
wanted. I figured we had about half an hour before David
arrived so we went to mid valley where I got the pictures
we had been taking deleloped and gave her a set to keep.

When we got back to the shop David was waiting IN THE CAR!
He did not even go into the shop and talk to Cliff.

Anne said they were heading back Home early Saturday morning.

"Choir Man"

I didn't finish telling you about the concert. The
performer was Jonathon Welch, whom I have never
heard of. He had a lovely voice and I did enjoy the
concert. He did not have any CD's for sale but was
selling copies of his autobiography a % of which is
donated to the School of Hard Knocks Foundation.

He founded the choir of Hard Knocks for homeless kids
on the street. I did remember seeing something about
this choir on Current Affair or Today Tonight earlier
this year or it could even been late last year.

Brooke Is Here To Stay.

As I mentioned the other day Brooke is here. She and
her mother have had a real big fight over her boyfriend.
He is 18, which, as she is 16 and a half is about the
right age for her. Her mother has her on the pill, so
as long as they also wear condoms nothing too bad will
happen. But I still thing that 16 1/2 is not emotionally
mature enough to handle a sexual relationship.

She has gone to her school and asked for the paper work to
be transferred up here. She said that she will repeat next
year as people up here won't know she is repeating.

This is putting more pressure on Kirsten to come back to my
place as there is no room for her at Donald's.

Anne Surprises Me!

On Friday the 9th I was thinking of getting out of bed as it
was 10.10 a.m. when my mobile rang. It turned out to be Anne.
She said that she wanted to take me to the Warrgual Arts Center
to see a singer and she would pay for the tickets. I asked what
time was the show and she said 11 a.m. I said that I had to have
a shower and dress and it was a 40 minute drive so I might be a
'bit' late.

Well if there ever was a case of Murphy's Law this morning was a
perfect example!

I was comming out of my driveway when a police car passed by.
He stopped and 'gave me a warning' that I should be wearing my
seatbelt before thye car enters onto the road! Then I got the
red traffic light at the Jane St bridge. Turns out there was
road works on the entrance to the freeway which required me to
stop for a few minutes and drive at 40 instead of 80. Then
between the Yallourn-Yallourn North turn off and Moe there was
more road works. Thankfully I did not have to stop but had to
slow to 60 all the way. I caught every red light in Traf and
Yarrogon and also got caught behind vehicles that were doing
60 in the 80 zone and 40 in the 60 zone.

Then on coming to the turnoff to Warragul, there was a huge tanker
on the outside lane doing 80 and It was now just after 11 a.m. so
I went around it and lo and behold he then found top gear and
started to speed up and I MISSED the turn off completely and was
forced to go to Drouin as I also missed the THREE turnoffs to go
back along the highway to Warragul.

I choose to go along the old Princes Highway back to Warrgual as
I though it would be as easy as going back to the highway and of
course thre were ROADWORKS all the way and I was reduced to doing
60 instead of 100.

When I got to the Arts Center I saw Anne and got her attention.
She had been looking for my car but when I got in it this morning
I realised that I would not have enough petrol to get to Warragul
and back so I had been forced to go to the shop and swap cars with
Cliff. Luckily he was in the station wagon! Of course there was
no parking in the Arts center so I had to park in a lot across
the road and walk back to her. After all that I can't believe we
were ONLY 15 minutes late. But the singer only performed from 11
a.m. to 12.05 p.m. so we did miss a quarter of the show!

Lunch With Anne

Took Anne and David to Cafe Creme and had lunch with
them, as it was Wed 7th Nov, and I usually eat there on
Wednesdays, of course Meg and Kath was there, as was
Kirsten and Brooke.

Took photos of everyone.

But all too soon David and Anne said it was time to go
and they left about 3.30 p.m.

Meg had cancelled lunch with me orginally as Kath wanted
to talk to her alone. So they still did not get to talk
especially as both girls were there.

Anne had amused the girls (Brooke and Kirsten) by telling
them stories about me, when Anne and I were in primary
school. I should have got her to tell Kath more about
Kathleen Bisset, as Anne was Kathleen's better friend but
maybe I can get her to write to Kath and give her the goss.

Kirsten says that she has finally met someone shorter than
her mum! and boy can my friend TALK. That is funny as it
was always me talking when we were kids. But I was excited
to see her and couldn't eat and I think she was excited too
and that she way she was talking!

Anne Arranges a Visit.

I had a message early in the month that said Anne
and David were coming to Melbourne to visit David's
cousin at Wantina.

I spoke to Anne on Sunday night. She said that they
might be able to drop ion on the way home.

Then on Tuesday night I had an SMS from Anne asking
what time I would be home on Wednesday as they would
see me then.

I said I would be homw about 1.30 p.m. but then I was
home and at the shop by 11.30 a.m. and I realised I
would be there about that time so I sent a message
telling Anne that I would be at the shop at 11.30 a.m.
and gave her instructions on how to get there.

I had barely been at the shop 10 minutes when they
arrived!

I had thought it was 1991/1992 when I had last seen
Anne when she came down on the bus to see me get my
graduate degree.

But she said that it was 2004/2005 when she and David
last came down as they remembering meeting Cliff.

I had high hopes that I could talk Anne and David into
staying the night at Cliff's house (as Lena had put fresh
sheets on the bed) and then we could go to the club for
tea and then we could buy tickets in the raffle. Then
they could continue on their way home on Thursday.

But it turned out they were not on the way home but had
only come up to see me for the day and had left everything
at the cousin's and were on their way back there and were
still staying there a few more days.

Halloween 2012

As stated last year or maybe the year before this
tradition actually comes from Scotland. I have
noticed that it is becomming more popular in
Australia.

So this year I went out and bought 6 bags of lollies
that contained up to 18 individual wrapped lollies,
so that there woiuld be no concern about unwrapped
lollies.

Cliff came and picked me up and I went and stayed the
night at his house. As we left my street we noticed
a couple of kids out and about collecting. However
not one kid came to his door in Traralgon!!

So we have been eating the candy over the last two weeks
a few bars each each night. There is still about two
bags left! So we are not being toooooo bad!