Month: December 2010

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A visit to the flea pit – a rather nice one tho’

You know how sometimes things get put to the back of the cupboard and forgotten only to be found quite a while later.

Well, the other day we found one of last years Christmas presents (2009) tucked behind something on the notice board in the  laundry

Yes, theres that much stuff pinned on the the board its not the first time important things have been overlooked and forgotten:(

It was a really nice surprise that was unearthed:)

The gift was  Gold Class Movie tickets – nothing to be sneezed at.  Just think – I nearly lost the chance to watch a film sitting in a luxury recliner with food and drink served at your chair because of a lack of drawing pins lol

Today we took advantage of that gift – had a lovely day out and were entertained at the same time.

So after making sure they were still valid and booking our seats ( theres only 18 seats in the theatrettes) we took the train to the City and went to the cinema in the Crown Casino.  The complex out our way had only 3 films available and there was about eight to choose from in the city.

So what did we choose to see – The Kings Speech

A film thats going to be big time, one that has been shown at many film Festivals this year, won awards already and has only just gone on general release.  In fact I don’t think it’s even been released in the UK yet.

I thoroughly enjoyed it – not because I remember being told of King George’s speech problem when I was a child but because I enjoyed the acting and the whole feel of the film.  A ‘nice’ film – no violence no nudity a bit of foul language but in context and lots of wondering if thats the way it really was.

Heres a link to the official site – http://www.kingsspeech.com/

And heres a review from an Australian newspaper
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/the-kings-speech/story-e6frg8pf-1225975091491
Go and see it even if you aren’t a monarchist.  I would willingly see it again

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We tried – honestly, we did

We tried – honestly we did
It’s sort of an unknown fact
that along with the Melbourne Cup
it’s your national duty
for you to listen or watch the cricket
especially the Boxing Day Test
The time between Christmas and New Year
is when we rest and relax
For the majority its time to unwind
before the hassles of the next year begin
For our Test cricketers its business as usual
Some may say it’s been a busy year for them
This schedule shows they started the year in Pakistan
and then travelled the world plying their trade
till this last series of matches
against England (aka The Poms) here in Austalia
 The Ashes
Our national team has been trying their best to win them back
but it really hasn’t gone the way they hoped
As I say
We tried – honestly, we did
and don’t take me as a bad loser
(even tho’ we haven’t really lost yet)
but it just became an embarrassment
Yesterday we turned the tv off 
fed up with watching all those strange
very noisy (barmy) white skined supporters
who are gradually turning pink with sunburn
from all the time they are spending in the sun
yelling and singing 
just like they are at a soccer match 
(and whoever gave that man a trumpet needs to be shot)
Runs weren’t scored – wickets fell – there was a run out
England now need to take 3 wickets
and they have retained the Ashes
To clear our mind of all those problems
we went for a drive up into the nearby hills
The weather was great
The afternoon out involved some walking
Down broad paths in the forest
and up rough steps near our goal
Water was involved
but I’ll leave that for another day lol
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Watery views

Like I was telling you recently (and just about every other Aussie Blogger has been saying so as well) here in Australia we’ve had an awful lot of water falling from the sky.  Ours has been coming down in great big wet drops, splashing on the ground and laying around, unlike the stuff in the Northern Hemisphere where it’s coming down as fluffy white bits landing softly and also laying around.  Up there and down here it has got beyond a joke and is causing all sorts of problems.  Floods for us – Snowstorms for them – it almost seems as tho’ someone has had it in for all of us lol

Anyway, not content with seeing it coming down from the sky for goodness knows how long Dh has been treating me to day trips to see it from a different angle.  Before Christmas we had that day down at the beach and down at the cape- then Christmas Day he took me out to see a small waterfall in our Yarra Ranges National Park close to Healesville. 
I did show you some of this in an earlier post – see here
hopefully you won’t feel cheated and that this post will be as interesting as the previous one

To actually get to the National Park gates we had to cross a ford on Donnelly Creek – and because of all the rain we’ve had there was a fair bit of water laying there.


Its a funny feeling when you are approaching a ford
and wondering what you are going to find.
Wondering how much water there is there and how deep its going to be
Maybe I’ll be able to judge more easily if I get a bit closer
And then the relief that the car doesn’t have a problem as you are travelling through it
Now we come to the actual Weir itself
This photo of Donnelly Weir taken in 2007
We were in drought at the time so there wasn’t much water going over it
photo source
And heres what it looked like on Christmas Day
All this area was burnt out during the Black Saturday Bushfires February 2009
but has made remarkable regrowth helped along by all the rain we’ve had this year
If you look at this website
  You will see more photos of the area in drier times
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What goes down often comes back up again

Strange title
Bet you are wondering what I’m on about lol
Thought you’d like to see a series of photos taken the day we went to Cape Schank
The cost of a Lighthouse tour was a bit prohibitive for all of us
so we chose to walk down the boardwalk
and look at the tip of the Cape and Pulpit Rock from the beach
So here we are about to begin our decent 
See the black line – it shows where we had to walk
Click the photo and enlarge to follow us
all the way to the rocks below
Half way down and theres the Lighthouse up on the hill
with the rocky coast below
Made it to the bottom
and theres Pulpit Rock round the corner
It was too slippery to walk all the way round
What comes in
Usually goes out
 Now for hard part – going back up
I can tell you that the last set of steps
back up to the top was a killer
We are planning to go back down again
this summer if the weather is good
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Boxing Day thoughts

As I was clearing up the casual outdoor crockery I thought how pleased I was we had decided on a very simple meal instead of some of the extravaganzas I’ve done in the past. It had been so lovely to see some of our children on Christmas Day – we spoke to some on the phone and had visits from the others.  The family who were away even changed their plans and drove home for a short while so they could be with us, which made it even more special. 
This years decision for a simple Christmas also meant there was only one tree in the house and not the several others (including a big 7ft one in the lounge) that I often put round the house – ‘cose the grandchildren love to se them.  What was special was the fact that grandchildren didn’t notice I forgot to put a star on top of that small tree in the hallway lol
How I love receiving surprise gifts like this big bundle of fresh veggies
 and the tomatoes from a home garden
How I love those spur of the moment decisions to do something, When they had all gone and we’d eaten lunch we decided to take a drive – I had no idea where we were going ‘cept it was near Healesville – about half an hour away – off the main highway and down some small roads – into the forest and over a ford.
We ended up at Donnelly Weir –
 a good choice, as you all know how much I love fresh air sunshine and water.  
We had a good stroll along one of the trails seeing how much it has recovered since the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009
And how I love the fact that now the drought has come to an end and we have had rain there are loads of wildflowers in bloom
Like this Fringe Lily
http://anpsa.org.au/APOL2007/mar07-s2.html
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Day out down by the beach

The weather man seems to be getting it right this week
and I’m pleased about that
Fine dry days – a bit blowy but basically good
Just as well because we’d sort of promised
one of our families who’d gone away for the week
we’d pop down to where they were and see them
because they won’t be home for Christmas Day
They had taken a week at a resort just over an hours drive from home
Yes, we will go away that close to home
if the accomodation is down by the beach lol
So yesterday (Thursday) Dh and I
popped all their pressies into the car
and made the long journey
way down to the Mornington Peninsula
We met up with them at Rosebud 
and walked out along the very windy Jetty
Looked out over the water and back to land
Remembering times gone by
when we would bring the children down for the day
to sit on the sands and swim in the safe waters  
Then we made our way down to Cape Schank
to see the Lighthouse
We saw the  rugged coastline
Took a walk along a boardwalk – up and down many steps 
and came face to face with the stony beach down below
I’ll fill you in on our day out over the next few posts
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Still kids at heart

Three of my oldest grandchildren are maturing so quickly
At 17, 16 and 15 they are all finding their ways at school
as well as out in the community
They are fast becoming
the young men and women of tomorrow
They love the life they are living
Happily there’s one thing I’m glad they haven’t forgotten
and thats to have fun
We were lucky to have a clear day earlier in the month
for some of us to have a pre Christmas get together
at son no2’s new home  
And once again I sat and watched them wondering 
if these times are when the idea of pecking order
or fathoming out the strategies of life is worked out
Using the inground trampoline to jump over a rope
their age often means they can ‘con’ (persuade)
two of the younger ones
to hold the rope 
but its fend for yourself when it comes to another game
One of the younger cousins has the height
to muck in with the older ones
but our little 13yr old shorter one in the pale top
just tags along watching whats going on
hoping for a go
Now give her the chance to go an a 5 km hike
and she’ll be first in line
I wonder if she’s going to be the thinking one
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I wonder where they come up with these things

More goodies from my Inbox – not sure how they could have got that email address ‘cose it was raised specifically for this blog

Anyway this first one is one of those spiffing thingies – but is just too funny.  I read it and burst out laughing – of course if I was dead I wouldn’t have known all about it lol  Not sure where the pictures got to either.

Attention:

My name is Mrs. Rose Edward of the International Monetary Fund investigation unit.
Attached pictures was received and forwarded to our office here in London UK today 15 of DECEMBER 2010, requesting that your unclaimed fund be paid to Messes Jacobs Enterprises.

In the said letter of change of beneficiary/ownership, representatives of messes Jacobs’ enterprises states that you are dead and as such your fund should be paid to him as the next of kin to you.

Because of the elaborate global scam, we decided to contact you for confirmation.

If after two working days, no response is received from you, it will be assumed that you are dead and as such authorisation and approval will be granted on behalf of Messer’s Jacobs Enterprises to claim/receive your fund.

Confirm this pictures and reconfirm your Information to me the Followings.

(1) Your full name.

(2) Phone, fax and mobile #.

3) company’s name, position and address.

4) Profession, age and marital status.

5) Copy of int’l passport or any scanned identity to prove yourself.

And how you want your fund paid to you without further delay if you are still alive.

Send your response to my email address: mrsroseedward51@kimo.com

Regards

Mrs. Rose Edward
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Now this one that seems to hail from a different country

From Miss sandra williams

Dearest one,

My name is Miss Sandra Williams. I hail from Monrovia, Liberia, I and my younger brother Jeff are the only surviving children of our late parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard williams. Our father was a highly reputable and successful Gold dealer before he was killed during the war in my country.

We re-located to Cote d’Ivoire under political asylum as refugees from Liberia, our mother died on the 12th of Feb 2009. Before my mother died, she gave me the documents of the fund my late father deposited in a security company here in Abidjan. She told me that the box content’s the sum of US $18.5m (Eighteen million five hundred thousand USD) and was deposited as Family Gold for security reasons. We need your assistance to claim this deposit out from the security company. This fund was deposited in a security company here in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire and my name was written and signed as the next of kin to this deposit.

We want you to assist us in retrieving this deposit out from the security company as the beneficiary of the deposit, and also assist us to invest these fund in any country of your choice under your care.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

1. Can you honestly help us with fear of God?

2. Can we completely trust you?

3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please, Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible,Once the fund transfers to you we will come over to your country on investment negotiation.

Thank you so much and God bless.

Sincerely, Sandra Williams.

I can laugh and brush these aside but of course the sad thing is that so many desperate people have been taken in and provided all the asked for information

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Joke – warning – Adult bit blue

Many of you overseas blog readers trying to cope with nasty winters will have seen we are nearly at the end of the first month of Summer here in Australia

AND

I’m sure you will aso have read on various blogs that whereas it should be lovely and sunny and warm here in Melbourne – and all over Australia as well – It is freezing cold

So much so I’ve had the heating on.  There has been snow up in the High Country (just 2 hours away from me) -its usually reserved for the winter months but this year decided to make an appearance last week.

Edited to add:
Snow at Buller
Snow at Hotham

I think all our states and territories have had flooding because it keeps pouring with rain.  Not gentle rain but torrential storms that have caused havoc all over the place.  We were warned about La Nina earlier in the year, see  here and here and here

SO

I needed something to make me laugh and when this appeared in our Inbox I knew you wouldn’t mind me sharing it with you

(see warning above)

Little Johnny Strikes Again…

The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.

Molly put up her hand and said, “My family went to my granddad’s farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating..”

The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word fascinate, not fascinating.”

Sally raised her hand. She said, “My family went to see Rock City , and I was fascinated.”

The teacher said, “Well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate.”

Little Johnny raised his hand.

The teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before.

She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,”  so she called on him for his offering..

Johnny said, “My Aunt Gina has a sweater with ten buttons

but her t***s are so big

she can only fasten eight.”

The teacher sat down and cried.

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Self service

A chance remark in an email from Annie sent me looking for these photos I took in Newfoundland
We had stayed the night near Springdale at Hull’s Riverview Bed and Breakfast
a lovely place that seemed to be miles from anywhere 
but in fact was only a couple of minutes off the Tran Canada Highway
and were almost ready to leave when I saw this bird on the feeder outside the front window
Stella told me it was a Female Hairy Woodpecker – I do hope I’ve rememberd that correctly
We don’t have them (Woodpeckers) in Australia so out came my little camera
Theres the car waiting out the front but I was in a world of my own
Totally mesmerised by a bird I’d never seen before
It wasn’t in the least bit bothered by me jockeying for a good position at the window
and just went about its business of trying to get to the food
Hope you enjoy watching it – the same as I did
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Oh for a seat to rest my weary bones lol

After braving one of the shopping centres nearby I came home feeling quite weary
This was a fairly biggish centre with several national stores
Coming out of one of them I needed to sort out all the bits and pieces I was carrying
so looked for a seat of some sort
Not an empty one to be found
all full of that age group who feel the need to ‘hang around’
not doing much – certainly not waiting for their adults – messing about with their feet all over the seats
Made me feel quite annoyed they did
Mind you, not nearly as annoyed as the elderly lady who asked one of them to move on
and received a rude reply
I think the ‘kid’ was a bit taken aback when a couple of his ‘mates’ jumped up and offered her a seat instead
I could have done with one of these empty benches
seen on a wet day in Skagway Alaska last August
Like the animals in Noah’s Ark
they seemed to come in two by two
Funny tho’ – so many available yet –
– or maybe because of all the wet weather –
very few were taking time to sit and rest
I managed to hang on to all the parcels until I reached the car
then tossed them very unceremoniously on to the back seat
with a big sigh
I am not going near a shopping centre again ’till the silly season is over
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Sunset at Glenelg Foreshore

Whilst we were in Adelaide recently we had dinner
at the Glenelg Surf Club
It had been a scorching hot day and when we arrived
at about 7pm the beach was still full of people
With the sun still above the horizon
it was hard to get photos of the area down below
That’s the lifeguards raised patrol hut in front of the club house
Now the sun has started to drop behind the clouds
the beach is still busy tho’
8.45pm
9pm
and for some reason
the sky has a cooler clearer look about it
9.15pm now and the jetty lights have come on
Quite an eerie look to the very hot foreshore
 
The white van is a local Police divvy van
Just doing a little run around the area 
 ‘cose if you enlarge the photo
you’ll see the foreshore and the beach is still full of people
so on a very hot evening
its better to be safe than sorry
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Cormorants at Saltons Wharf

Posting the photos of  the Cormorants I’d seen in Adelaide
reminded me I also saw some when we were in Newfoundand
last September
There is a small wharf just outside the Visitor Centre at Terra Nova National Park
And this is what I spied right at the end
I did try walking closer but didn’t want to disturb them
so to take these extended the zoom
right to its limit on my little point and shoot
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I love the way they all stand seemingly with their eyes all fixed in the one direction
At first I thought all the photos would be the same
but not so ‘cose the gulls seemed to come and go around them
The one in the middle was there by ‘himself’ for a while
Drying off after a quick dive
I was told they were Great Comorants – hopefully that is so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cormorant
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Something new

I always like it when I see something new and
I managed to see a ‘new’ to me water bird last week in Adelaide
We were down by West Lakes when I saw a black and white bird
that I vaguely recognised from its shape
but had to look it up when we got home to be sure
Turns out it is a Little Pied Cormorant
The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka (Microcarbo melanoleucos) is a common Australasian waterbird found around the coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia,
and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic.
It is a small short-billed cormorant usually black above and white below with a yellow bill and small crest, although a mostly black white-throated form predominates in New Zealand.
Three subspecies are recognised. 
The species is known as the Little Pied Cormorant in Australia 
and as the Little Shag or by the Māori name of Kawaupaka in New Zealand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pied_Cormorant
There he was sitting on a railing by the water 
not in the least bit bothered by people passing by
Never having seen them close up before I was facinated by his feet
It never occured to me he’d have webbed ones like ducks
They look almost like big paddles lol
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That other group at the Festival – Part 2

Hello there
Well I told you about the journey we took last week over to Adelaide in South Australia
 http://stillwaters-cathy.blogspot.com/2010/12/going-west.html
Then I mentioned the Celtica Festival I spent some time at
http://stillwaters-cathy.blogspot.com/2010/12/hot-saturday-in-adelaide.html
I finally got round to telling you the reason we went over there
http://stillwaters-cathy.blogspot.com/2010/12/regatta-reason-for-trip.html
and then filled you in on a very different group we saw at the Festival
http://stillwaters-cathy.blogspot.com/2010/12/that-other-group-at-festival-part-1.html
So today I’ll show you what made up the second half of this groups performance
It involved two burly men in kilts with swords in hand
And two broadswords placed across each other on the ground
I suppose you could call them Highland Sword Dancers
I’ve only ever seen nice little girls performing Sword Dances
usually in competitions on big stages out in the open air
at some of our shows and special Highland Games
so this was very very different
It seemed odd to see these fellas wearing soft dancing shoes
I can assure you there was no sissiness about them
I really enjoyed watching them
they moved very well in them – so surefooted with lots of movement 
Looking around the net I learned that these special shoes that highland dancers wear are called ghillies
Also found out that the round shield they carried is called a Targe
Anyway I’ll let the photos tell the story for me

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Then I discovered someone had put a video on you’tube
So let it load and enjoy the performance the same as I did
An Ghillie Mor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJE7NMZnuA

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That other group at the Festival – Part 1

This is what was written in the program for the Celtica Festival
for a group called
Border Celts / An Ghillie Mor
Blue-faced warriors wielding sticks are joined by sword-bearing men in kilts
to bring to the festival audience a dance performance with a difference
a contemporary interpretation of an ancient Pictish step dance
plus traditional Highland dance

Intrigued with what was to come we sat and watched mistified
as these bluefaced women and some men in kilts
gathered at the side of the stage
But I’ll let the photos talk to you first
All I can say is I was facinated by what was going on in front of us
I’d never seen it before so didn’t know what to think
Reminiscent of Morris Dancing but nothing like it at all 
I sat there totally engrossed for what was a very long set
Fabulous all the same
Here’s their web site
http://www.bordercelts.webs.com/
along with a description from a previous festival
http://www.kapundaceltic.org/2008/bios/the_border_celts.shtml
and I see someone has actually put that particular performance on you’tube
so do click here and watch it
Let it load and then enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xCfpA2r_Q
This post been about the group called Border Celts
I’ll show you the other part of the group
An Ghillie Mor
another day
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Regatta – the reason for the trip

So some of you have asked
Why did we go to Adelaide the other weekend in the first place
Well dh is a national official for Australian Canoeing
and there was a Grand Prix Sprint Regatta scheduled to be held at that time
These events are held in other states as well and he usually goes by himself
meeting up with the other officials wherever 
but with us able to stay with friends in Adelaide  
I decided that this time I would go with him 
After the horrible wet weeks we’d been having in Melbourne
I was looking forward to the sunny dry weekend that was forecast
but didn’t appreciate the humidity that became worse and worse as the days went by
The event took place at Oarsmen Reserve – West Lakes Shore
not far from where we were staying
which was good as the day started for them all at 7am
and you know what its like when you stay up late –
eating drinking and talking takes a toll on you after a few days lol
Here you can see all the paraphenialia used by the athletes and clubs
Brightly coloured canoes and kayaks strewn out all over the reserve 
along with the tent structures needed for shade
Paddlers come from all over Australia for these Canoe Sprint events
There were recognised Olympic athletes there as well as youngsters
who have a good future in front of the them and are being identified as such
by inclusion in the Australian Sports Commission’s
National Talent ID and Development Program
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Because all the ‘men’ were busy with their allocated ‘jobs’
we only popped down to say hello a couple of times
Here I was just in time for the start of one race
The kayaks are held steady before the race
No, that person doing the job won’t fall in the water as they are lying on a board lol
Going down the straight
There are times when the finish is close
and others when the placing is easy to see
Here are some K4s – four man kayaks
being taken out of the water
Long and bulky
Dh was on the weight scales this day
watching the youngsters plod up the beach 
They are all weighed before a race and some are weighed after
to make sure all is above board and no illegal weight has been added
You could be looking at some future Olympians here 
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A hot Saturday in Adelaide

Our Long Weekend away was hot – very hot and humid  
So what did I do to pass the time
when Dh was busy with other things 
(which I’ll tell you about in another post)
On the Saturday I tootled over with  friends to Port Adelaide and the old mill area
http://www.artatthehart.com.au/celtica.html
to have a look at what was going on at the Celtica Festival
http://www.celticafestival.com.au/celtica.html
I have a liking for music, any music – and anything concerned with music
so this was a fabulous way to spend the day
Along with the music and dance
 there was also an art festival taking place
There were lots of stalls and displays as well 
http://www.artatthehart.com.au/celticaprogram.html
This is what was promised at the outdoor stage
A huge lineup of musicians
Blackbird
Blackbird is a dynamic group of musicians playing an exciting mix of traditional Celtic and original tunes.
Jack Brennan leads the fairly new group
Amongst other instruments he plays the Uilleann pipes
This was the line up for Fiddle Chicks
We watched those two groups plus another and then decided to have a look around
(I’ll tell you about the other group another day)
Taking our time we walked down looking at the strip of stalls and once again I found artists 
unwilling to have their handiwork photographed:((
Of course I managed to find a bench – this one was empty
Impossible to understand in the heat
Same tree on the way back
The bench on this side of the tree was well and truly being used lol 
It was so very hot and we’d had enough so decided to return to the stage area
just managing to catch Eric Bogle’s set
Well known world wide he had John Munro from Colcannon to accompany him
Eric Bogle and John Munro
We left and went home after their set – so hot and humid and uncomfortable
Then after a quick shower we were off to the Glenelg Surf Club
for a meal with our fellas later in the evening
OK so I should know that horizontal stripes add width
but
from the look of that photo
the WW books are certainly coming out really soon LOL
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Going west

After some very rainy wet days last week the thought
of a few days interstate sounded like fun
so we take off very early last Thursday morning
Surprise!
We meet more rain not far along the Western Highway
It came down so heavy at one time
the wipers had a hard job keeping up
so we pulled over for a break
A little further down the highway it cleared up a little
See the blue sky lol
The white blobs are sheep – can’t get great shots when the car is going at 100kms
and someone thinks thats the only speed the car can do on the open road
Thanks goodness for cruise control ‘cose he tends to forget
 that thats the maximum speed
the car can go on the highways
Saw some nice benches and a War Memorial when we took a loo break 
Beaufort
Went past the vineyards at the town with the same name as the winery
Great Western
Drove past an enormous Koala
Big Koala
Then the sun came out again
Judging by the number of trucks parked at this roadhouse
I’ve a feeling the food must be good 
Grain silos are a common sight now
so were the dark rain clouds
Stopped for a break near the big river
Tailem Bend
On to the Freeway – not long now
He can now go at 110ks (legally) lol
Still had those black clouds overhead
Heres the tunnels that were put in when the road into Adelaide was altered
Heysen tunnels
Down to the Old Toll House 
and heres that strange sculpture
at the first intersection at the bottom of the hills 
We are here till Tueday
Now which way will we go ??
Time to meet up with friends and veg out
Will fill you in another day
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Reminder to ones self

It doesn’t matter how hot it is or how much of a hurry you are in to go to the loo – you must close the windows of your car. 

Sudden torrential downpours like Melbourne has been getting recently don’t do much for the interior.  Sitting on several towels you’ve put on the seat so you don’t have a wet b’um as well as to try and dry the rain soaked seat doesn’t feel good – in fact it means you have to lower the seat because your head nearly touches the interior roof.

Good job we are using Dh’s car to drive interstate in the morning as mine is starting to smell a bit musty.  Must make a note that on the next bright dry sunny day I must remember to open all the doors and windows.  Will need some Glen ’20 as well as Febre’ze – goodness knows what it will be like after being closed up for the next 7 days :((

Bye for now
See you all sometime next week
Cathy

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