WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY     STANTHORPE

When I got up, there was some early morning cloud. As the day heated, it was burnt off and it turned into a pleasant day.

I discovered that my HRT script is out of date, so had to locate a doctor in the phone book and make an appointment – for tomorrow morning – to get a renewal. Must watch that date thing in the future, with scripts.

I finished the small blue tablecloth I’d been making, and later in the day spent some time pondering over how to lay out the prototype I will make, for a set of place mats for S. She has said she would be interested in having such a set and would pay for the materials. That is a nice, long, time consuming project. I plan to design and make a possible one and send it off to her for approval, before making the set.

I went briefly to the shops for a paper and some food items.

John went to bowls in the afternoon. He enjoyed it and won. I cleaned the van, read the paper, and sewed. I made some barley and vegetable soup.

I had quite a chat with the lady in the van behind us. She and husband have lived in their van for seven years. They follow a harvest circuit they have devised. They will pick for a full season of a product, or sometimes just for a month, then have 4-6 weeks off. They do the fruit here, then strawberries at Palmwoods, veggies in the Bowen area, then apples at Batlow. Finding out about the travelling lifestyles of others is really interesting.

Tea was some of the soup, ham, potato and coleslaw.

During the afternoon, there looked to be storm clouds looming up, but they did not develop into anything, at the time.