A waiting weekend

J&J are settling in at Canberra Hospital tonight. Jody is booked in for an induction tomorrow morning. Josh has taken a week's leave from work from tomorrow. Without a doubt it is all going to happen. We'll keep you posted. I hope we can all get some sleep tonight.

We had some wonderful rain late this week - starting at midnight Thursday night and lasting right through (off & on) to late Friday evening. There was lots of talk of Ella's imminent arrival bringing on the end of the drought.

Rob and I had booked an inspection of our Coogee apartment many weeks ago, so we drove down to Sydney for the day yesterday to check out the state of 8/85. The tenants' lease is up on 10 June so we needed to do some sorting about what will happen next.

It was a spectacular, clear, warm 24oC day in Sydney. Rob and I had a stroll along the Coogee esplanade, had lunch at our favourite Barzura Cafe and then met up with our agent for the inspection at 2.30pm. Our young tenants have obviously looked after the place very nicely. With a bit of luck they will be happy to extend their lease for a few months until we are ready to take it over towards the end of the year. We enjoyed the day; the only glitch was the 40 minute delay on the M5 as we drove into Sydney, caused by a semi-trailer catching fire near the Ingleburn turnoff (no one injured luckily).

We've just got back from celebrating Jeremy's birthday with an afternoon of feasting on French food from the Chapman patisserie and some of Jeremy's great wines. J&J were able to join us too as they were killing time before going into hospital tonight. Maxie & Rod are leaving for their three week holiday in Turkey tomorrow so we had quite a few reasons to break out the Majella as well this afternoon. Ollie found out how much he adores French chocolate birthday cake and Angus created a scene when he came out dancing in just his nappy, allowing everyone to see his gorgeous thighs.