Yum! Breakfast at Daniel Stuart. This is probably the last time we will see Sy and An together before they take off next week for their holiday. An will come to Trivia on Monday night at this stage, and while Sy may be a starter, it will depend on what odd jobs still need doing around the house and whether she has finished her packing. M will be picking them up early on Tuesday morning to take them to the Airport, so hopefully An will have a Trivia win to keep her competitive streak (yes, everyone on the Trivia team does have one ... to varying degrees) in check until they get back.
On the way home from breakfast, S and I stopped in to have a look at Sy and An's renovations which are ... drumroll please ... mostly done. The house looks stunning and Sy has become accustomed to that they are not the only house in the immediate area which has the exact same colours they chose. They're good colours too ... Coach House and ... S thinks the other one was some kind of gum tree word. I was busy at the time checking out the chandelier hanging majestically from the high-ceilinged turret. The frames for the flyscreens are in but the screen itself (amazing flexible and stretchy) will need to wait until they return before it is fitted. They seem very happy with the overall result (as they should) and I can't imagine how relieved they must be to have the "what can go wrong will go wrong" reno mostly behind them now.
Hopefully M had fun today. She was taking part in a Roulette Tournament at The Big House. It was her first one - usually they are strictly the domain of the "big players" like the "Tony Towers" of this world who, and this may be where the name comes from, will put piles of chips on numbers on the table. I've never seen the big players at work but I hear it is pretty amazing. It sounds as though M acquitted herself well - she made it through to the Semi-Finals (Tony Towers didn't). For next time, she says, she will need to work on her betting strategy, which means she must have been happy with the numbers she was putting her chips on. She says she was nervous for the first two rounds settled into it a bit more in the Semi ... but what an amazing experience for her - especially as the players start off with a pile of Casino-supplied chips (I think I heard correctly when she said there were thousands of dollars worth) ... unfortunately they didn't get to keep their winnings at the end of each round. Good work M!
Back at Latimers, it was a bit more pedestrian. I had another date with the kookaburras - using it as an exercise to check the capacities of both my bigger cameras. I'm not sure if they were the same kookaburras but if they weren't they had certainly been talking with them. More practice needed.
S is very much enjoying her Chagall tome and I still can't believe she's had it out of the library for nearly a fortnight. It was on the first day, the first time she opened at home that the front pages fell out. Hmmm ... and why am I only thinking of this now ... does this mean she chose it based on its cover? Apparently ... maybe ... but no ... she did look inside to make sure it wasn't the Chagall biography she'd already read. As she said, she felt like getting her teeth into a good biography - she likes Chagall - and as long as it was by a different author she was happy with that. The good news is that the pages have stopped falling out.
How lucky are we? There were Mouse leftovers for dinner - soup and stew from Thursday night and, as usual, they were delicious.
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