Monday was a day of rain, and I mean rain, it did not stop all day and pretty much all night though by Tues morning it was was just overcast but extremely damp under foot. We did not go out at all on Monday but when we saw heavy rain was predicted for the whole week we decided that rain or no rain we would still go out.
The habadashery store in Howard was a bit of a let down. It had a wide range of goods but by no means was it cheap. It was extremely cluttered and the woman serving was on her own but she tells me that there was a house next door which also had many more bolts of patchwork material.
We also went for drive to Hervey Bay to get a bit of an idea of what it was like. Barry, who we caught up with in Mooloolaba is now at Hervey Bay visiting his sister and her husband and we spent some time again with them. Ken had not seen Leanne, Barry's sister, since she was just a young girl.
Hervey Bay is a lovely coastal community stretched over the whole bay area and is made up of a 5 or 6 small suburban areas. I'm told they were all once individual small towns but with the passage of time they have each spread out and now it's hard to pick where one stops and the next one starts.
On Tuesday night Ken rang Diane to see where and when we could catch up with her. Diane is a girl friend of Ken's from when he was in his late teens through to just after his 21st. Diane and her family, mother, father and brother left Australia to return to England to live. Ken was supposed to follow on later but evidently got cold feet and never went. When I met Ken he had had his 21st and of course was living in Orange where I grew up. We were to meet Diane at a cafe to have coffee and a chat. We were all a bit nervous but all went well. From the cafe we went to The Boat Club where we had a meal over looking the harbour where all the boats leave to go whale watching.
After leaving Diane mid afternoon, Ken dropped me off to have a look at the craft shop in Hervey Bay whilst he went with Barry to check out a gizmo that helps Barry hitch up his van when he goes home. Barry had major heart surgery last Christmas and he's now not allowed to lift over a certain amount.
We have a slight problem with water leakage in the car. After our heavy rain on Monday the car floor was saturated, wet on my side but drenched on Kens. He thinks they may have put in a new front windscreen and haven't sealed it properly. We will have to do something about it today or if not today then on Friday when we go back into Hervey Bay.
Today, we intend to go to Childers to have a look around, almost every one says Childers is a nice spot.
Friday ....... I didn't post the blog yesterday. So to update
We headed off to Childers to wander up and down the main shopping area. It is a nice little place and one lady who was in the Museum Pharmacy told us that the whole town is listed as a heritage town rather than just a certain building. The pharmacy had all the lovely old wood shelving and cupboards in the rich dark wood of yesteryears and its shelves were filled with many antique curios. The old picture theater with some of its original seats and the sloping floor are still there and housed the Salvo's Family Store. The woman serving Couldn't tell us if there was a citadel / church in the town or not. (don't know where they got her from, her PR skills were pretty poor.)
From Childers we came home to have lunch at 2.30 (which seems to have been our regular lunch time over the last few weeks) and spent a quiet afternoon at home.
That's it for me.
Trust you are all well.
Love to all. Ken and Lyn
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