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Friendship, fires and followers

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We have had visitors over the weekend – friends from the city who make the huge effort to pack up their little ones and make the six-hour drive from Brisbane to our place.  T and G were among the first of our ‘couple’ friends from the earliest days of our courtship (now THERE’s a lovely, old-fashioned word!).  They are pretty special in our lives and it’s always a sweet, satisfying feeling when they are with us – a contrast to those days when we ate out for at least two meals a day, lived large and partied hard into the night.

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The weekend has been filled with a marvellous array of activity.  We all travelled to a nearby town to watch Mr Incredible compete in a campdraft (I left my camera card behind, so you’ll just have to take my word for it), watched The Sound of Music (well G and I did mostly – I hadn’t seen it for about 20 years – how great is that movie?), attended the local show (another 100km round trip) and listened to the inimitable Jenny and her dad late into the night over red wines and Cointreau.  We feasted on rib fillet and my infamous roasted pumpkin salad, giant serves of spaghetti bolognaise, and a fabulous home-cooked Thai curry.  The kids rode horses, watched horses, played with My Little Ponies and toasted marshmallows over fires.

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Friends are so important to me – and despite the relative isolation of my home, I feel the warmth of my friendships regardless of where my friends live.  And that includes my bloggy friends, who send me messages and bother to take the time to check in on me from all corners of the world.  Speaking of whom (who can feel a seguay coming on?)… my blog-man Conor has been working on the ‘Followers’ thingo on my sidebar (where the lovely avatars of my readers are on show) to see if it will start updating readers any better.  If you subscribe here through the Google Friend network, could you please let me know if it’s started working for you now and showing in your reader?
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Fingers crossed that this blog is getting all the kinks worked out of it real soon.

Yours in friendship

🙂

BB

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