Today was so-so. Took my pooch, Moochie for a 30-minute walk, then stopped off at a house down the road where the fence and picket gate had been pulled out....and took the gate! Jules will be able to use it in our garden....once I have managed to "age" it.

Went to the Kyneton Men's Shed and had lunch....much better than the usual snags in bread. One of the bloke's wife had made sausage rolls, and he brought them along in a pie warmer. We chatted over lunch (there were about a dozen of us) and decided to call a general meeting at 10.30 am next Wednesday to bring everyone up to date with our latest developments. They include the progress of our $60k funding application to help build a new shed, discussions with local sporting bodies about the location for the shed and our contribution to the 3-phase electricity supply, minor funding we have received, and the increasing amount of community work we are being asked to undertake.

The afternoon was taken up with chopping firewood (kindling) which ain't easy when one has only one decent hand, carting firewood and kindling indoors, checking out our new roller door (workmen fi I shed is talking it this morning and we can at last park our car off the street), helping Jules briefly in the garden, making us both coffee, and doing some computer work.

I still worry about my increasing spasticity, but there seems to be little I can do about it.

Tomorrow I have to drive to a local winery to get some firewood (the winery has a scrub block with a number of fallen dead trees on it and these have been chained saw lopped into firebox size). I am constantly surprised at the amount of wood I burn in our slow combustion heater each winter. Then it's off the a Men's Shed cluster meeting of all the Macedon Ranges shed. This is taking place in Gisborne, a half hour drive from Kyneton.