THURSDAY 20 JANUARY     HOBART

It was an extremely windy day.

We needed a quiet day, as John was kept awake through the night by pain in the hip.

The Australian Open tennis was on TV, for entertainment.

I made gazpacho soup – always very time consuming and fiddly.

For tea we had some of the gazpacho, then a creamy vegetable and chickpea curry, followed by stewed apricots. John stated categorically that he does not like vegetarian curries!

We phoned K and left a message to send mail. John phoned sister H and talked with her for a while.

The night was really windy. Much flapping of the awning edges, and rocking of the van, but everything held together.