A Happy Easter to everyone! It's Sunday and I've spent most of the day with family, first visiting my Nanna in the old folks' home and then my Mum and stepfather. Tonight Lauren, Daniel and Zeke are coming over for a baked leg of lamb and I might crack open a bottle of wine. I've been eating chocolate for 3 days and am nearly sick of looking at it, but there's plenty left and I'll probably keep dipping into the basket.
We have such a beautiful day that I couldn't leave the easter eggs in the car for fear they'd melt, and spent some time this morning in the garden. I've got the front garden looking nice at the moment and need to keep it looking that way. We have a lovely new greenhouse out the back that my friend built, and even the back yard is looking lovely and green. During the summer months with water restrictions it was a dustbowl, but there's nothing like rain to green it up.
I read this morning that 16 people are dead on the roads this long weekend and my heart goes out to the families of these people. It's always the same during the holidays. People in a rush to get somewhere for a few days, and they don't get there at all. It's a terrible waste of life. Emily and Kai drove up to Sydney for the weekend on Friday morning and I'll be anxious until I hear they're safely home.
In other news I read how a cab driver stopped to help the driver of a crashed car that was in flames, only to return to his cab and realise someone had stolen his night's takings while he was saving someone else's life. What the hell is the world coming to? The good and the bad in one sentence!
We've had a spate of vandalism and thefts in Junee lately too that prove that more people are going bad. The library and chemist were broken into last weekend, the Medical Centre had the outside toilets vandalised, and last night the toilets at the park were vandalised. Maybe it's time we brought back neighbourhood watch, and get a few people out doing late-night walks with the power to nab these, and maybe a bit of a touch-up while they're at it. Junee is a lovely town and going the way of every small town with drunken louts and drug addicts robbing and vandalising. A pregnant woman was mugged only the other day in broad daylight! We need to get these arseholes off the streets and out of our beautiful town. I moved here eight years ago because you could still go out and leave you back door open. These days I go to work and I lock my back door.
I have less than a year now to give up smoking, I promised the kids I'd give up before I turn 50. The count-down has begun.