Lost loved ones and found a lost love!

G'day Mates!

Strange title huh?  Curious?? Can imagine!!

First of all I like to apologise for taking so long to write a new story but so many things happened lately I didn't had the time nor the energy and I even didn't had the inspiration.

Well of course the lost one was my very dear uncle Rob. I wrote that already in my previous story. They live in Queensland, Gold Coast and because we are house sitting in Bendigo I had to fly to Coolangatta on my own.
In the mean time we also lost my aunt Maja, living in The Netherlands and so we cannot attend at the funeral. We are going to Holland soon but not in time for the funeral.

We hope both, Rob and Maja, will have peace and happiness where ever they are now.

As I said, we are going to the Netherlands end of April which also means a lot of organisation. Luckily we can leave our caravan here at our last house sitting address in Bendigo and so we have to sort out what we want to take with us as between leaving here and our flight lies 5 days which gives us a bit time to pick up other stuff we want to take with us and what we have stored amongst family and friends.

Then we are trying to sell the car! We might have been nagging a bit about it but apart from some minor repairs, which could happen to any car, he never let us down even when he had to tow our caravan which actually is too heavy for him and that's the only reason we have to sell him.

Of course that also was a lot of work, cleaning in and outside, water is scarce here in Bendigo so you have to be careful and so we struggled with 1 bucket of water but he came our perfect!

Anyhow that's some side information, now we come to the funny part, the "found a lost love" part. The loved one found wasn't mine but my hubby's. Have you ever seen the show " Memories" ? It's about people who are looking for their old, mostly first love  and they are being helped by the people of the program.

Fred has been engaged for a few years more then 50 years ago (Crikey!) with a girl named Ella but in the end she chose for another guy, (lucky me!). After many years, we were already together, Fred found out from one of her relatives that she was living in Australia and he tried to trace her as we often went on holidays to Australia so we could go and visit.  Didn't had any luck. Then Facebook was born and several times he tried to find her through that, no luck.

Hey! No, there is nothing wrong with our marriage, he just wants to know how she went in life!!

Then, last January, he looked again and there she was, on Facebook, her grandchildren put her on, finding it time for her to get into the social media world.

Mind you! she lives in Perth, on the other side of the airport where we have been staying with Sheila at the Central caravan park.

After making contact we found out that she is a widow for not so long and she really wanted to meet Fred as well as me. So here she is, staying with us for 10 days at our house sitting address of which the owners proposed to let her stay with us in stead of a hotel. That is highly appreciated ! Thanks Jan and Tony!

We had a lovely time, all Ella wanted was to relax, read a book and have lots of talks, cries, laughs and drinks. And because the nights are pretty cool, Fred lit the fire which made it even more cosy.

We had a great spot outside at the back under a big umbrella and views into the bush were we spent many hours.

Me being absent because of the funeral for two days, gave the two the opportunity to talk about the past and the good old days.

But we also had time to do a little tour and so we went to Castlemaine which is a lovely little town and worth visiting.

Castlemaine is a small city in Victoria, Australia, in the goldfields region of Victoria about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo.

Back in Bendigo we suddenly found a hidden lane with some nice eateries...

and here, also Bendigo, Ella shouted us a nice lunch on the waterfront...

We again have a very special house sitting and I've got a lot to tell but I'm afraid that won't be earlier then we will be in The Netherlands. Well, I assume we have a lot of rain there again so there will be time enough. No, I'm not a pessimist but every time we see the Dutch news, some reporter is standing in the rain!

Anyhow, please keep looking for my new stories as they will be worth reading!

Till then I say, stay healthy!
Cheers!