Sunday

It has been a wonderful day at Latimers - even though Pearl is still on sleepover at Nana's. M said she will bring her back tomorrow - which may have something to do with when she took Mouse out for breakfast this morning in Broadbeach (Happy Mothers* Day), Mouse stopped in at the supermarket and bought some Osso Bucco which is destined to be Pearl's dinner!
Despite having been out for breakfast, M and Mouse were still the first of our crowd to get to the markets - we're not counting Azra who is there at (just about) sun-up to do her shopping, and then comes back later to meet up with the usual suspects for Markets Coffee. We did well too, being there for 10 o'clock (okay, it was actually a couple of whiskers later) but we still beat M and F. The table was groaning with grapes, croissants and bread this morning .. and coffee of course. You can't beat a yummy breakfast/morning tea and good company. Oh, and almost forgot - there were flowers - and lots of them - for Mouse for Mothers* Day. Even though she isn't the actual mother to everyone at the markets, sometimes she feel like it and it was fitting that it was flowers-all-round.
Apres-Markets, S and I took ourselves off to Robina Town Centre to the ABC Store to get the book they had ordered in for her and to pick up a few things for lunch since the still-in-training-for-the-Kokoda-Challenge S had phoned to say she and a team-mate were training in the area and she'd pop in afterwards if anyone was going to be around. And we were - and it was a fantastic, relaxing afternoon. Emma was very happy too because we let her sit out with us for most of the time - and S, kind and wonderful animal-lover that she is, took pity on her and fed her some BBQ chicken. Emma loved it.
There was no mowing today altough there are lots of other (little?) jobs that need doing around the place. Who knew there were cobweb festoons around the screen door into our room - which I only noticed today as we were getting the outside area ready for lunch with S.
It appears that the birds have abandoned the nest. There has been no construction for some days and there is nothing quite as sad as a half-finished nest. It may be time to take a gurney (high pressure cleaner) to the area and give it a good spruce up.
S and I spent a nice quiet evening in with MasterChef (they're now down to the competition 24), then some reading for S and Samagrams for me. M was out for dinner at the Big House with Mouse - and they had a good night as well.
By the time lockdown arrived, only Maggie was still outside and she came on the first whistle and then called to me from the door to say she was present and accounted for - and why hadn't I been holding the door open for her already?
* When in doubt, leave it out.