As it was lunch, A had cooked a quiche and that was yummy - more so than the one that followed us home from the markets. (Snap.) It was accompanied by a lovely batch of greens - hand-picked from S's garden - and also very delicious. Good food, good company - a lovely way to spend a Sunday.
It was almost too short a stay for us at the markets - and it was very hard to drag ourselves away as the table was just starting to buzz nicely. We have come to enjoy this Sunday morning ritual very much. You could have knocked us down with a feather though when we saw the KOM mobile there, until we realised that M must have had it out for a run. (Okay, for a moment we thought the traveller's might have made an early return and be going to surprise us ... even though they know we want to pick them up from the airport on their return! But, alas, no ... the more pedestrian explanation won out.)
Max and Coco were very well behaved on the visit and did a great job of rounding up all of Pearl's toys. Maggie spent the duration of their visit in the room as planned and I was very impressed that S remembered to let her out as soon as they left. I fear I would have remembered when I asked: "Where's Maggie and why hasn't she come in for her Supper cookies?"
S left the manual out so S could see what a great job had been done to prepare us for the caretaker role. She was suitably impressed.
Can someone please make them stop the election ads? I cannot imagine how much money is being spent on television ads for this campaign. When we watched last night it was wall-to-wall which might have been okay except they kept repeating the same ones. It reaches "old news" territory very quickly! Not to mention full page ads in the press. Ah well, only this week to go and then we'll know how many people followed Mark Latham's advice tonight to cast an informal vote ... what, a donkey? (You have to love punctuation.)
It is the official launch of Labor's campaign tomorrow and they will be doing it in Queensland. We are not going. They are expected to announce some low-cost policy initiatives (according to educational radio) and use some more staged publicity shots - if you believe the aforementioned (not-a-good-look) Latham. It will be interesting to see if there is any follow-up on his almost throwaway reference to Kevin Rudd being the source of the recent Labor leaks. Not sure what Channel 9 thinks they are achieving with him - especially as he interviewed (a very loose term) Pauline Hanson - the (other) redheaded woman in Australian politics - so she could declare that she neither likes nor trusts Julia and that she blames Tony for spearheading the campaign that led to her imprisonment.
We missed Kevin's interview - I think it was on earlier than we thought. Hopefully they will run a summary in the paper tomorrow. Perhaps he made reference to daughter Jessica who has just had her book published. The story revolves around a Prime Minister who is deposed by his female Treasurer. Sound familiar? In this case it's life imitating art because she had hers first. There was an article about it, and her, in this weekend's SMH.
M is starting to be a little anxious about her impending departure - and how she's going to have enough room in her bag (a recurring theme). Friday dinner may be on Tuesday or Wednesday night this week so she's able to fit it all in.
Still no closer to working out who's eating the lemons - although I doubt it's the aliens that Chris suggested. I discounted the strategy of sprinkling talcum powder around the area to see what paw prints turned up when I realised I would not be able to sleep again if it was a BIG paw print! (This is a filmic reference to something called ''Paranormal Activity" - a movie best avoided by those who are "suggestable" and have even a modicum of good taste. S hated it!)
No lawn mowing this weekend but I am planning to get into it next weekend. The good thing is that Hermes is tending to use the mowed part of the top paddock so it's not too strenuous for the people doing the pick-ups. The girl we saw doing it yesterday was using a bucket and rake but S said she had seen someone picking it up with a machine the other day. I would love to see that!
We're hoping to get to the movies this week - it has been a while since we saw Shrek soaring over rooftops and being his "old ogre self" as the Carpenters sang "On Top Of The World". "Ghost Writer", the new Polanski film, is heading the list at this stage. Haven't really heard anything about the plot - but have listened to an interview with one of the cast who was saying that Polanski was his usual meticulous self - even telling actors how to say their lines - which some found "interesting" given English is not his mother tongue. But the result is supposedly spectacular - which we'll be able to confirm after we see it ... tomorrow?
