Friday, 1 May 2020

Cold and wet today. We stoked up the fire and headed into Benalla as John had an appointment with his GP to check previous spot removals. Checked the house in town and water had leaked into the shed. We were aware this happened in heavy rain and will need to put extra downpipes in.

Home via Kilfeera Road and outside Andrew Muller’s (our stock agent for many years) the bitumen had been lifted by the heavy volume of water and floated off the road to the verge!

Welcomed back at 10.00am by cattle near the front gate so John got a roll of hay and took them to a new paddock - plenty of feed there but for some reason not their preferred paddock.

After lunch we drove over to the cottage to check and clean and put the power on. Got the ok to get help with the pig problem so thought the cottage would be needed. Not needed as change of circumstances resulted in the help not coming. It is so cold and wet we think this is a good thing. We were home again by the fire when we got the message so John braved the drive through the creek again to turn the power off.

Must be Friday again - pizza tonight! We followed this with a sip of Benedictine and reminisced our visit to the Benedictine Monastery in rural France almost twelve months ago.Read more