The end of a vacation is always something of an anti-climax, but we were left with no opportunity to wonder how to wile away the last 24 hours. Packing, checking out, panic shopping for the next event, travelling to drop off the rental car at the airport, having dropped the cases at Essendon, and attempted souvenir shopping at the nearby mall (only about the size of Lakeside) left us with barely enough time to attack Susan’s computer again to see if there was a cure for the dreaded incompatibility squabble between W7 and Office 2007. Heidi’s Andrew eventually scored maximum points for finding a suggestion that running the 2 programmes whilst having administrator’s rights assigned might be a cause…and so it was!...But only for Word – Excel still continues to hiccup. There was no re-installing, no downloading an update or a patch, just a buried box that had to be unticked. Software designers, bless their little cotton socks!
And yet again we were whisked off to Jan and Rob’s for the final “roast tea”. I think Jan must be one of the most amazing cooks we have ever come across, because she had turned some of the surplus barbecue steak into a huge, gorgeous pie with beautiful vegetables, followed by an apple sponge of gargantuan proportions. They are truly, homely, hospitable Aussies (fourth generation) with a sizeable local family, all of whom seem to support each other with no effort or question whatsoever. It was a privilege to have met them and been accepted, via Susan, into their circle. A little blogging when we got home to try and catch up so that it finishes near enough the same time as the trip, and then the final night sleeping upside down.
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