Cooler weather after the storms!

Quite a bit cooler today after the steamy humid, rainy weather of last week. We had a taste of monsoon rain on Friday evening! What a downpour - flooding in Mordialloc!! Not quite what happened in Brisbane thank goodness, nor did we experience the fury of a cyclone as in Far North Queensland, but enough to cause havoc on the roads and quite severe flooding in country areas. The amount of water laying around on Saturday and Sunday was amazing. The bush fires in Perth are unbelievable one side of the country wet and the other dry. the country side was extremely dry when I was in Perth and there have been some scorching days over there this past week. Also in Sydney extremely hot weather - what is happening?
A sad week for us - my lovely Auntie Maimie (my Mum's younger sister) died in Dundee Scotland. I have so many happy memories of my Aunt, the times I spent with her while working in Dundee in the 60's and the visits and holidays Shelley, Darrin and Mike and myself spent with her and Uncle Ian in the 70's before we came to Australia. She will be so missed by Uncle Ian, Diane & Ian and families. My mum will miss her so much - I don't think they ever had an argument or disagreement in all those years!! Even so far apart they talked to each other every week. All the letters written between the 3 sisters over the years since the 50's would make wonderful reading. Sadly only my mum left and her brother in Monifieth Scotland. I think it has been the wonderful communication over the years by Mum and her late sisters that has kept all the families in touch.
I am so looking forward to having my lovely grandson Koby, and daughter in law Candice home tomorrow after 2 months away in South Africa. I hope that Koby remembers me!!! he will be two in May. My beautiful Zac will be 4 very soon - later in the month. He is a character - I am going to have him stay over soon. Fergus started back to school on Friday, I looked after him on Thursday, we had fun (well I did) I got to play snap, also a new card game that we hadn't played before, we had a lovely picnic in the park and enjoyed hitting a ball backwards and forwards. It's lovely being a Grandma!
I enjoyed a lovely walk and picnic in Sherbrooke Forest on Sunday with a friend. Was quite cool after all the rain, but very peaceful and good for the soul.
Thinking of my friends who are not so well at the moment.
Til next time...