20160324 – Thursday – The Shrives at Villis, and later visited Ali Gore

My table at Vili’s where there is a powerpoint for my computer.

I rang up Ali to make a time to see her sometime in the coming week. Ali said she was going away for the Easter period so invited me up to visit her this evening.

I went to Vilis for the morning and worked on my computer. While I was there, Lyn and Peter Shrive came in. Such a coincidence. I don’t see them for ages and then I visit them on the way home from Cobar and here they are again, at Vili’s. Peter and Lyn were on their way to Victor Harbor to spend Easter with the rest of their family and grandchildren in a holiday home there. They are a great couple and I have known them now since the 60’s and Woodville days.

In the evening I drove to Ali’s and we had dinner together in their small front lounge as we watched the news on TV. There was a lot of talk about the Brussel’s bombing in the News.

Alison Gore in her garden

Then Ali and I went into the lounge to sit and go through Ali’s photos of her stay in Sydney, at the Oldies’ Bible School and afterwards at Ruth and Geoff Lynch’s place and other places and other people she had spent time with. Ali uses her iPad and photos as her way of recording where she has been and what she has done. I write mine up in my diary. We spent the evening discussing the Bible School and how we both had found it and the happenings there.

I apologized for being grumpy, as I was in the first day or so at the school. I was so exhausted in those first few days and it  took quite a while for me to get myself together and into the swing of things. These days I don’t seem to have a lot of energy and have to conserve it.

What I worked out for the school, was that it was better for me to stay in my trailer at the school rather than stay at Gail B’s place (because my bedroom there was upstairs and I would have had difficulty taking my things up and down the stairs). It was also better for me to stay in my trailer rather than having a room on site as Frank Olsen wanted me to do.

My beloved trailer, that my Dad made for me 32 years ago.

I LOVE my trailer and I am so comfortable with it. Everything I need is right at hand and if I need to go somewhere I can just drive my car there rather than walking to my destination. I missed the first session each day (knowing that I could get an MP3 recording of the school to play in my car on the way home) and went up to the cafe in Rathmines. There I had breakfast, read the paper and wrote up my diary and then got back at the school just in time for the second session each day.

I really enjoyed catching up with Susanne F my niece at the school. She and Kevin are such hard -workers and do so much behind-the-scenes work at the school. Joan Bowen did the “high tea” catering for the special day at the school. She does such beautiful work and preparation. Amazing lady!