Reg and I have driven south from Tarra Valley, to Yarram then travelled north to Maffra where we are spending a few days visiting his sister and her husband. Reg and I are both enjoying the catch up time, chatting with his sister. Because I am resolved to eat healthy and portion controlled, I am eating some of the meals with the family and preparing some of my own meals off to the side, then eating them with the others. I am also keeping up with my writing and using the internet to catch up. I have found the internet here in Maffra, painfully slow in the afternoons and evenings. I know it is not my laptop memory that is the problem as I have heaps of computer memory in reserve. It must just be too heavy use for the Telstra wireless internet system to handle properly during peak hours in the country areas I am visiting, so I will be trying to do heaps, on line, early in the morning, while internet access is more available. We were lucky last night, the hailstorm that hit Melbourne was expected, out this way, thankfully, it did not hit us as we are living in the caravan out in the open, it would have damaged the car and van those hail stones were up to 20 to 100 millimetres across. A Shocking storm, so glad we only got the rain here at Maffra. |