My last game of golf for the year turned out to be my best...it happens to be my best ever...hitting 81 off the stick. My playing partners were Pete, Lyn Cooper and Grace Agostino. It is quite amazing how a game of golf can make one so happy.

 

Barb and Pete with Barb's fantastic new electric bicycle, the "best thing she has ever bought" she says. We had a very pleasant evening with her and Marguerite.

 

We had a swim at the beach and then a very relaxed lunch at The Local with Pete, Tash, Todd, Jo and Ash. Then it was time for Chris to fly home...I will miss him.

 

Four lovely ladies...Mandy, Julie W, Julie and Laura...at Julie W's Kris Kringle gathering, a really fun night.

 

Look what I bought at the Lululemon sale...they fit perfectly and feel great. Pete did well too, spending his Father's Day voucher that the kids gave him.

 

Christmas Day always starts at the beach....

 

Although it wasn't as warm as usual, there was still plenty of happy beach goers in their Christmas hats , holding glasses of champagne. Doesn't our new club house look impressive?

 

It's always nice when one of our offspring can join us and this year it was Chris.

 

Christmas lunch was at our place this year, so I didn't have time to take many photos. I'm hoping Mandy and Tash also took some good shots which I might add to the blog. Here are just a few from the day's celebrations.

 

.....playing Christmas Carols , they weren't always so serious.

 

...the audience...

 

The night before Christmas.....

 

Family outing...it is starting to heat up in Perth so we arranged to meet Tash at the dog beach at South Cottesloe.  The water was very calm and crystal clear, Rusty had a great time.

 

 

 

Pete and I spent the afternoon in Freo , Christmas shopping.

 

Home for Christmas...

 

This morning after our walk and swim, Pauline, Mandy and I explored the new facilities surrounding the new life saving clubhouse. We thought it all looked fantastic. In the above photo is one of the three new restaurants .

 

This is the view from the sun lounges! 

 

My new favourite shopping destination, Claremont Quarter.... Pete and I did some shopping this morning after the beach.

 

A big bowl of a rum based cocktail( the name of which I cannot remember) to share with Cathy and Nat at The Aviary for lunch...celebrating Cathy's birthday in style.

 

A pelican in our lake at the golf course !

 

I wonder if future generations will see these?

  

 

My first paddle board experience....and gosh it was good fun. Today was our work Christmas picnic , down at Matilda Bay foreshore. Kevin bought his paddle boards and some of us had a try, none of us had ever paddled before. We were lucky it was such a beautiful day and the water was very calm.

 

Kevin and I...

 

It was so peaceful , paddling out in the deeper water....I really appreciated what a beautiful river and city we have.

 

A rather unusual looking red flowering gum, near our driving range....Pete and I played in the mixed foursomes today. It was a really enjoyable game with Jess and Gerry and Lyn and Mick. Jess and Gerry came runners-up for the net and Pete and I came third in the gross. After the game we went to Helen's house for our Christmas get together with my italian class friends and their husbands. As always it was a delightful afternoon with good friends.

 

 

In the evening Pete, Jeremy and I had dinner at Tash and Todd's. They cooked us a splendid meal on their new Weber BBQ and we all watched the uncut video of the wedding that Phil took. It was amazing, he has done a fabulous job and I think it is something that Tash and Todd will treasure . Rusty wasn't too interested.

 

Surf carnival at Floreat beach this morning....always great to see all the colourful boats and boards...

Our end of year beach breakfast this morning ....so nice to see Maree....I don't think I mentioned it in the blog before but she broke her leg in the surf one saturday morning weeks ago, but she is recovering well. [Maree, Marjolijn, Juliet, Mandy, Margot, Julie and Pauline]

 

Maree took this photo...

 

Mardi, me, Pam and Judith on the course today...since we all owned the same skirt we decided to play together and wear the skirt and different coloured shirts... we created a bit of a stir!

 

Lovely lilies...their smell is filling my house...

 

On my way to the State Library to borrow some music....Perth Railway Station with the city behind... the sky really was that blue.

 

It wasn't the weather we expected for the first Saturday of summer.

 

Pauline, Julie, Mandy and Adele walking into the very strong sea breeze.

 

We had just finished our swim and the rain came....we ran up and took cover under the almost finished surf club.

 

It is a huge building, looked very stark today though.

 

It was our Christmas party at the course today, and we were asked to dress up as a music artist or group. Jane, Shirley, Jenny and I went for something very easy and comfortable to play in...The Beach Boys...

 

My beautiful new photo frame that Tash and Todd gave me.....I found the perfect photo for it!

 

Our golfing ladies putting lunch at Lo Zucchero today. I hope I never forget all these lovely ladies but just in case I will put names to the faces. Top row from left is Anne, Sue, Jonnine, Barb, Jane, Margaret, pauline and Shirley and seated from left is Angie, Judith, Lorenz , Jenny and myself. As always when we are together we had a really good time.

 

Tash and Rusty came over this evening for dinner whilst Todd and Brad were at the ACDC concert down the road. Mandy, Gra and Jeremy joined us for lamb on the barbeque. We could hear the concert very well from our house!

 

We celebrated another birthday today at golf, this time it was Sue's.

 

I so enjoyed being back at golf, had a very enjoyable game today and afterwards we celebrated our captain Jan's 70th birthday.

 

 Yallingup Beach...on our final day, our last swim....

 

Unlike yesterday there was a huge swell....

 

On our way home I took this photo of the famous Dunsborough Bakery.  After a rather eventful drive home dodging bushfires we went to Ash and Jo's home for a very pleasant ddinner with Todd, Tash, Brad and Nerida  to catch up and to celebrate Tasha's birthday.