Parties all the weekend

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Yesterday our Fiji Friendship Club families had a barbecue and kava at lunchtime, then another party in the evening was at our home with guests from Melbourne, then today we hired a minibus for the nine of us and drove to a very beautiful area of Victoria called Greendale (where they made that film about the pig and the spider 'Charlotte's Web'). Tonight the gang are watching All Blacks playing France and the kava is flowing again. The party at Greendale was particularly lovely with a kind of family reunion - several generations of my side of the family, good food and conversation and fun in the dam for kids and some adults - boats and a flying fox.

Swan Hill and family stuff

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Peceli and I spent three days going to Swan Hill by train for my birthday and it was good to be back in my home town and look about, even visiting my parent's home in Boys Street - sold maybe ten years ago. We had a picnic beside the Murray River, a dinner at the Federal Hotel - revamped as it once was rather scungy, and a restful time out of town breathing clean air.