OK, so I admit that I've been a bit slack on keeping the blog updated, - please forgive me, loyal, discerning and oh-so-intelligent, readers! Sometimes I have to admit, Sunday evening rolls around (which is when I do most of blogging) and I'm just not in the mood to be creative. The comparison with Facebook is interesting I think in the sense that as a 'content provider' on Fb you get much greater levels of feedback - whether that might be a 'Like thumbs up' or a comment. I know some of you comment on some of my posts here, for which I am very grateful, but, the sometimes almost instantaneous feedback I get from Fb does feed my ego. Anyway, I am not at all implying that I will no longer be blogging...Mutterings from Maryville has a very long life ahead of it.
So...let's play some catch-up. Earlier this month we farewelled Claire who ended up staying almost five weeks (which included an unexpected bout of chicken pox). Claire is French (as are about 80% of our HelpXers for some reason) and she contributed lots to Maryville - helping Julia with the construction of the Lizard Palace, doing lots of gardening, weeding and cooking. Claire is a very good cook! Here she is with her version of my spinach, fetta and eggplant pie....
and on her last night with us she made this fabulously delicious apple flan.....very scrummy.
On her final, foggy, morning with Steve before we dropped her off at Lismore train station, where she took the bus (the trains having succumbed to government policy just before we moved here) to Casino, train to Grafton and a bus to Moree, where she was then met by her next host who took her back home to Warialda. She stayed there for a couple of weeks and then went to Brisbane, where she stayed for a few days before resuming her journey north.
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