Tuesday and three siblings

The (almost double) rainbow

S's brother Ch arrived today; the Kyogles drove up with him this afternoon. It was a good, if short, visit with them with a wide range of topics covered including the time both Ch and S had spent with their mother, her ongoing care, and, of course, no visit would be complete without a revisit of Monday's Trivia questions. It's amazing how much S, Ch and M know between them, but, coming, as they do, from a family of journalists where fact-finding (as opposed to fact-ducking as interpreted by my handwriting recognition program), attention to detail and data retention are highly practised, prized and regarded, it should not be surprising.

S decided to make a lamb roast for Ch for dinner - wanting to give him something he wouldn't normally have in Hong Kong. While he had had lamb chops during his Kyogle stay, he was ecstatic to be having roast with green and roast vegetables. Maggie must have known there were greens too because she wandered out during dinner and, in deference to us all I think, chose not to jump onto the table. Pearl wasn't far away either and did splendid "puppy dog eyes" as she watched the piece of lamb M had promised would fall in her direction at meal's end!

Tinka checking out the lucerne

S did a wonderful job and all of us (except for Tinka) enjoyed it immensely ... and the glass of red wine with it (thank goodness M cleaning unearthed it last week!)... yum. Then, it was on to the final episodes of "Packed To The Rafters". It's not something we usually watch but S had seen it at her mother's last week and wanted to tune in ... the Rafters (Grand)Father was about to be put into an Aged Care Facility - but why that meant the show had to end completely is beyond this non-viewer!

It rained a little less today but the ground is still saturated underfoot ... so definitely no mowing! But there was the most magnificent rainbow over the Latimers Valley as I drove into Nerang. I didn't get a photo of it, but I did get one of the smaller one down over B's stables. It was pretty fantastic too!

The new talking kettle

If I had been more aware of it, I would have covered the Lucerne when it arrived last week and now it is sodden ... but not so much that it couldn't be harbouring little critters; both Maggie and Tinka were very interested in it. And when she wasn't watching it, she was doing what Tinka does best ... sun baking! She has truly made it an art form!

M's new Kettle, now reunited with its top (which had been left behind in Turkey but has since arrived by post) had its debut performance at Latimers today. You put tea in the top part, and water boils in the part below, then you mix them together to taste. I can see that this is a very effective way to prepare tea - especially when the kettle tells you when it has boiled - admittedly in Turkish but that's okay because M does speak Turkish. We don't think it says other things ... and if it does, hopefully it doesn't do it when M is out.