CHOLOE & ZELDA

Dearne and Bill have two dogs, Choloe the boxer who is nearly one and was given to Dearne last year by Lucas and Zelda the staffy was Bill's fathers day present. They are lovely dogs but big and full of energy. They have the run of the house and just go crazy leaping and bounding over everything and everyone and then collapsing on the couches and sleeping. Choloe loves to go to the dog park where she is able to run around off the leash and wear herself out. Zelda hates the lead and simply refuses to go for a walk she sits in the corner of the room and cowers so she doesnt get out of the house very often because she won't get in the car either.

BROKEN WINDSCREEN

This is what the local young males do on a Friday night. They vandalise cars. Image Craig's horror when he went out this morning to discover that the back windscreen of his car had been hit with a rock (see photo). He was on his way to Shepparton so woke us to tell his father what had happened and left it for us to deal with. First the police who said there was very little they could do but would log for insurance purposes. Secondly call to Byron to get the number for the windscreen company, then a call to them to arrange to have a new/secondhand one fitted. All went very efficiently and by 11.30ish the fitter was here with a secondhand window and did a good job replacing it and vacuuming up all the glass. Now all Craig has to do is pay the bill when it arrives, luckily he has just started work so has money.

GENDERS BUILDING

During my last visit to Launceston to research James Peters I made an appointment to see Ross Smith at the Queen Victoria Museum. Unfortunately he was unable to assist me with the information I was looking for i.e. map of Invermay circa 1889 to locate the area of King Street where James Peters died. He explained that a lot of the streets in the early days of Invermany had been renamed and therefore lost. But in talking to him and showing a newspaper article about James moving his business into a building in Cameron Street owned by a Mr Genders he found some early photos of Cameron Street and informed me that in fact there was now a laneway called Genders Lane and that the building to the left was the original building owned by Mr Genders. So after some actually visual research with Dearne we concluded that the building now painted cream was the building not the lovely one next door.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN

Happy 27th birthday Ben hope you have has a great day and enjoyed your night out.

FIVE DAYS IN TASSIE

Have just spent time in Tassie with Dearne. Flew done on Monday afternoon and came home on Friday night. Have had a lovely time with Dearne and managed to spend money, drink coffee and go out for a fantastic lunch with Ian and Wen at the Christmas Hills Farm cafe were we enjoyed fresh raspberries and good food. Was lovely to catch up with them both we managed to spend three hours there eating and chatting. Did some more family research and now know where his business was located in Cameron Street, Launceston and have managed to trace his housing arrangements into some sort of order. Also got copies of two census's that were done in the early 1850's and it is interesting to note that he only had one servant a male (ticket of leave) but no female servants. Anyway will now start to write up his story so far and get it on paper before I forget the good bits. The weather was lovely down there not like the heat that has greeted me on my return to Melbourne.

A NEW BALL

MOLLY'S NEW BALL

Molly loves balls, big ones, small ones and medium sized ones. Today she scored two new ones, Byron had managed to get her a big tennis ball a couple of weeks ago and left it for her today plus while we were out shopping we found a medium sized one at BigW so she was beside herself this afternoon trying to work out which one to play with. Many squeals and barks could be heard from the backyard as Phil bounced and tossed the ball around. Her favourite thing to do with the ball is to put a hole in it so she can then carry it around in her mouth. It will take her a couple of days to manage to do this and then she will be in seventh heaven.