We went to the beach again last weekend - Point Leo this time (touted as the "closest surf beach to Melbourne") and almost had the space to ourselves. The dogs had a ball chasing seagulls, tramping on our castle and pretending to swim... Fraser is improving his sand castle building skills and I'm sure he'll be an entrant in this year's castle building competitions for the under 3's.... We finished the day off with a picnic - not such a winning idea when it's a bit windy and the food ends up with a significant crunch to it.
I'm continuing to sell cupcakes at Tooradin market and did another one this weekend. Enclosed a pic of Fraser and I in "cupcakes at markets" kit....
My last blog was just before a terribly sad day - on 14th June, Mike's friend Rupert died suddenly of a heart attack. They shared a flat together at university and as he'd emigrated to Australia with his family 5 years ago, Mike and Rupert were having a fantastic time rekindling an old friendship and sharing Australian experiences. He was a wonderful, inspiring, intelligent, fun loving man with a gorgeous family who are now trying to come to terms with life without him. Rupert's passing been such a shock and so terribly sad that we've not turned our minds to much else recently. We've seen Juliet and the girls quite abit which has been lovely - they're trying to laugh along with little things of life and we all remember Rupert when we're together. But they have such a long way to go on their journey - I hope we can shine a little light on their dark path.
A tiny silver lining in the dark cloud was that it was lovely, despite the circumstances to see Rich when he came over for Rupert's memorial service and that we've made some new friends whose friendship with Rupert we all have in common. Rupert will live on in our hearts, memories and conversations.
