too blessed to be stressed

 Pearly Girl will be flying in soon and I haven't even blogged about our Canberra trip yet!

So

fond farewell from Jilly who assumed aunty  duties in Triabunna for a week

Pearl and I rendezvoused in Canberra Airport and were lucky enough to get a lift to  our hotel.  The reason for our visit was Lady Jayne's Birthday.

beautiful flowers from a long-time friend

Lady Jayne gets down to birthday business

now where's the Big Bad Wolf?

Lady Jayne and a scrubber from Tasmania

LJ and Pearl

Listening to The Floosie's Fleurieu FM radio show while checking out the bus system

most impressed with the buses - though the dogs found balancing a bit tricky...

a most unusual part of Canberra - a place with soul

and the restaurant where the three of us had a delicious banh mi a few years ago

Then it was time to return to our respective home states

where Jill PD and I were delighted to find a market in full swing on Bellerive Boardwalk.

Home Sweet Home and a most welcome visit from Jean Green Bean who was bearing the most delicious home made slices.  She is a great fan of Mary Berry.

Got this very special book from the library.

Sue, Eileen and I taught at Elizabeth Matric College in the 1970s.

And got these at the same time too.  I hadn't seen this Arthur Upfield before.  I know Fleurieu Floosie will approve of this reading.  I returned my first foray into Dorothy Sayers and was lucky enough to find her second novel on the shelves.  I had struggled a bit in the first - Whose Body? - with Lord Whimsy's manner of speaking.  He'd either turned it down in the second book or I'd got used to it.  Thoroughly enjoyed it though the plot is pretty dense.  And I realised that I lead a life of leisure not  unlike the Lord's.

'Too blessed to be stressed' was a rejoinder put to us by some very happy blokes we encountered in Tuggeranong.