Day: December 17, 2010

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

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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