THE THREE R'S.....
For the long weekend I headed east....north east..ish. Went to my sister's place in Swifts Creek, nestled in the Tambo Valley, East Gippsland. It's a small country town and my sister lives just out of said town. My phone doesn't work there....I have no ability to call anyone (unless I borrow their land line)...and I have no access to the internet. No messaging, no facebook, no google...no 'quick let's just check that.' So I go there to rest and relax. To spend quality time with my sister, her husband and which of the children are there at the time...currently two teenage boys. I've been coming up there for so many years that we have acquired rituals without realising it. There is the slow walk around the garden as we talk and compare plants. She gives me a few cuttings of this and that, I give her a few plants I've grown and we see which succeed. Her youngest son always wants me to play Monopoly ---have I ever told you how much I HATE...