Still catching up on blog posts.................April 2026

April newsfromjude included a lunch out with a friend, a visit to town by DD1 and partner, and a visit to our old farm to view the house renovations by the current owner.......I will talk more about this in another post sometime.......a drive to Lucindale with Barry one day and home via Naracoorte...........the increase in fuel prices due to the Middle east crisis........and another short trip away....

On checking in the caravan one day I discovered some unwelcome visitors.........they seemed to have made themselves very much at home!! The van was parked in our front driveway, and we suspect the ants came from the tree branches overhead. They have been dispatched, and so far have not come back. 

A few days later, we packed up and headed off again for a 4 day break over Easter. 

                                           

Once again we headed up the Ngarkat Highway...............and into Pinnaroo............

                                            

                                                                      ........where we turned East................

                                              

                  ...............and went through Murrayville, Cowangie, and Walpeup.................

                                                     

                                    

   

.........................until we arrived at Ouyen, where we would camp for the next few days................

                              

We had checked out the Lake a few months ago, and filed it away as somewhere to go.........it is a very peaceful spot to camp, on the lawns surrounding the lake, and the whole place is run by local volunteers. There is no power or water on site, and Barry had the generator. 

                              

Ouyen is only 100km from Mildura, so we contacted Jo and Tony and they planned to visit us on Sunday and we all enjoyed lunch at the Ouyen Hotel............

.........which was followed by icecreams back at the van.

We didn't need much to eat that evening, but I had to cook up the remaining  fruit and vegies before we went back through the quarantine station on the way home Monday. 

It was a very restful few days, with a few nanna and papa naps, and lots of reading, and of course a yummy lunch and conversation with good friends. Monday we headed home and the joy ?? of unpacking again.

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In the process of decluttering and sorting out of 'stuff' in the house, I discovered a long forgotten bag with some interesting papers in it. Amongst these I found these old bank passbooks.........something that the younger generations would probably have never seen..........

One of these books go back to 1957.....when I was 3 years old!!! They almost belong in a museum!!

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More custom quilting.........................

That's it for April, and I feel like I am catching up.

Back soon with the May newsfromjude,

Blessings, From Jude and Bazza