37 Black Swans: 'Mixed bag' of happenings..

So...we begin with a little plumbing work..

Our hot water supply had been slowly conking out again...and having rung the plumber a second time with a less than enthusiastic response to my request..I decided to inspect the Hot Water heater again..

This is how it should look...

But I found the air intake in the three rings were clogged up with about 2cm thick ice!!

Hmm...no wonder it was struggling..

Well it has been a very cold winter here..

So up I went with the hose and spent a good hour or so slowly melting and removing huge chunks of ice... and after turning the system on again and waiting a good few hours...eureka...piping hot water.

Thomas has had a long week of illness ..poor darling.. everything from headache , congestion to conjunctivitis to ear infection...and a resounding cough...

John and I were getting rather concerned about his fitness to travel to Sydney for our last Opera of the year..but we took it slowly and he managed ok..

The worst drama was on the plane as we began the descent into Sydney... Tom's ear pain was extreme and he sobbed and sobbed..

John tried distracting him and got him to take some photos as we came over the city...

We were all very glad to land...

Saturday morning we had a slow start..with breakie at our hotel..

Lucy and Paul came into town so Lucy could have a dress fitting...With great relief.. the dress fitted and looked lovely.. I took a few photos...but this is all you will see until 25th..

I think the bride is happy..

Meanwhile...I've started making Crochet bunting for the Cygnet CWA who plan to Yarn bomb the town for the Folk Festival in January...having lots of fun..

We headed into town to do a bit of shopping..Tom not 100%...but the lure of Dymocks and Lego shops kept him going..

We spent the afternoon in our room...reading, sleeping and lego-ing..

Then got ready for "Marriage of Figaro"

That's my gorgeous man-child..

I tried to do a selfie..rather unsuccessfully ...then the woman behind us offered to take a photo...nice

The Opera was wonderful...and Tom managed pretty well..apart from a few coughing fits..

Sunday..another slow start..

I sent this one of the boys at breakie to Jess..

And she sent this one back of Ben at breakie...gorgeous

We hired a car and went over to Rozelle Markets for a wander.. Tom was rather taken by these witches hats...

Tom soon tired ..so we sat for a while..then ...bummer...we got at text from Jetstar to say our flight was delayed 4 hours...What to do with a tire boy...
Thankfully John had the brainwave of going to the movies ...so we headed to Leichhardt and saw "Mr Holmes"....an excellent film..
Late lunch then meander to the airport in time to get out late flight home with no dramas..
We all collapsed into bed that night.
The week has passed quickly.
Tom was keen to be back at school and even more keen to build lego when he got home..

Not much has happened on the hill this week...everything is still so wet and muddy ...we have to wait for the ground to dry out a bit.

John has been going up every afternoon to do more shelving in the library.

Ned has completed out Huon Pine table and stools (similar to the one in the shop) and he and John dropped it up there on Wednesday...I haven't seen it yet.

I had a lovely couple of hours at the Garden yesterday..
Didn't stay for lunch as there was much to do at work..

Di harvesting mushrooms..