Bit of bling, running around, a Christmas party

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Yesterday was just too much for an old girl. Photocopying pages for a book at 9 a.m. and the machine wouldn't do back to back pages correctly, two trips to the Flight Centre to book for 3 family members and getting in a queue behind two scruffy old people making a $22,000 round the world trip, an early lunch with two lovely Pacific people - from Vanuatu and Fiji and a meal to dream for as their daughter wss home - she is doing a Hospitality course in Melbourne, yarning about Fijian missionaries in Arnhem land during World War 2, then a novel writing group in another Geelong suburb where we mainly were insensitive and critical of each others' words as we ate Christmas treats, two bus trips for me to get home, answer two urgent emails, a lie down - to be interrupted by two good friends for a yarn and tea/coffee, then we went to a Christmas dinner for Peceli's Rotary gang and a delicious beautifully presented meal was prepared by the caterers at St Joeys Football Club. Only time for a quick drawing of adults wearing silly paper hats etc.

Visit to the Sportsmen's Club

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Now, Sportsmen's Clubs and pokie machines are not my scene but this year the church fellowship groups (about seven of them - so about ninety women) decided to eat at this venue instead of the getting-older women catering. We used to have fabulous dinners with decorations and trimmings, lots of singing, a speaker, etc. This time we had to wait for the bingo guys to leave, then we sat down as a waiter shoved a few leaves on the tables as decoration. Anyway I met lots of friends I don't see much so that was fine. A nice turkey meal and plum pudding. Water on the tables. Hey, where's the punch? Line up for coffee. Okay, bare and spare for a Christmas party but that's okay. The entertainment was lovely - about 28 Grade 5 and 6 (I guess) children from the Leopold Primary School and two teachers came in and sang half a dozen songs. A super idea. Better than older women listening to love songs of the 40s. Anyway I drew three women at the pokie machines while we waited, and then quick sketches of some of the singing group.