Sun 19 July 2009

We drove to North Cronulla to make a booking for lunch at Summersault for Sunday the 9th plus go for a walk along the promenade. Look in the background and you will see there is alot of work going on to repair the beach area where the sea has taken away alot of the embankment and made the beach walkway unsafe. We had fish and chips at one of the many restaurants and then walked back.

John has had the week off and of course did jobs about the house ie a new front verandah floor. It looks good and now will last for many years.

I had Wednesday as my RDO and it was an interesting day. Firstly I ordered a jacket and it will be ready in about another week. Then it was the waiting game for the IT tech to help with the computer. No luck and after spending 2 hours trying to find the problem, he took it away for up grading the memory and some sort of clean up. Thursday I received a call from them asking for the licence for the XP and I had no idea what they were talking about. I found a sticker on a piece of cellophane and that was it. Then they rang again saying that the web site I wanted could be received from other sites, plus it worked thru my computer there, so it was a provider problem. The computer was returned and it is faster in operation but still cannot get the website. I rang the provider, People Telecom who said it would take about 48 hours, so hoping tomorrow will have an answer. We are both looking forward to seeing the site.

Two meetings this week and there will be staff shortages, so the week looks like being hectic.

Sun 12th July

Here is John standing in the doorway of the shed where he was doing bits and pieces, with radio on listening to the footie (Hawthorn won, only just). It was such a dreary day and then all of a sudden, late afternoon, the sun shone after the rain.

The best news of the week was the birth of Henry in the US. Congratulations Fiona and Andrew on the birth of your son, a brother to Lucy. We hope all is well. I just wish to could get the web site to work so we can see him.

5th July 2009

Wednesday evening we drove into town to see the French and Saunders live show at the Capitol Theatre. It was a disappointing show, the ladies are not stand up comediennes but they are good in their respective film roles. No matter, if we didn't go, we would always wondered.

John went to a wine show at Darling Harbour on Saturday and had a good time with the boys. Rodney is flying to the UK on Monday.

It was good weather today and I spent a number of hours in the veggie patch tidying up. During summer I had a poor quantity of tomatoes and now, mid winter, four plants came up on their own and have approx 30 if not more fruit but the fruit needs to be taken indoors to ripen up.

Sunday 28 June

I was given the clean bill of health by the Opthalmic surgeon also the thyroid and diabetes doctor on Thursday. Now must keep up my health program.

The weekend has passed so quickly just being home and doing odds and ends. I did a big cookup today, its easier to have pre prepared meals during the week. The rhubard is growing strongly - its apple and rhubarb (no custard for me) tonight for sweet.

Hawthorn lost last night.

21st June - winter solstice

This is one side of the mandarine tree from the verandah showing lots of the fruit. The other side is as full. The lemonade, blood orange and pink grapefruit are also ready to pick. John will have fun tomorrow putting together bags for the neighbours so long as its not raining as it is now.

We went shopping today after a hair cut for me, for some cushions. Bought two plus red wool and candles; we had a blackout for three hours during the week. Spotlight store in Rockdale is huge and such variety to choose from.

Today is the shortest day so, from tomorrow, we can expect that extra minute of daylight.

14th June

I went to two of the festival films on Wednesday - Missing Water and Rough Aunties. My plan was to see four films but after these two diverse films I had a lot to think about. I still havent been able to fix the credit card error and hope SFF contact me soon.
As we have grown older we have found arthritis is affecting us both in different places and different times.
Black Pepper has opened where Fayes were in Hurstville, Eastgardens and Roselands. We went shopping on Saturday to Eastgardens and bought a couple of outfits, they look nice and feel comfortable.
It was so cold today we didnt do anything other than read the papers, listen to the footie - Hawks lost, and play on the computer.

Queens Birthday weekend

The week at work felt long and difficult and was glad of the three day break. John went to lunch with the boys on Saturday, so I took myself to the Dendy and saw Angels and Demons and Is Anybody There. Enjoyed both although A. & D. was not as good as the previous one in the series. Couldn't fit in Samson and Delilah as had to fix an error I had made in ordering tickets for the Sydney Film Festival at the State Theatre box office. Apparently I bought the 20 pack and then proceeded to book the wanted films but was doubling the order of tickets. Spent $513 instead of $241. Anyway its sorted and await a credit for the lot. Consequently lost all the ordered seats and today (Monday) we went in on spec and found the cinema was sold out on both chosen movies. Thats a lesson learnt. I have Wednesday off and have chosen 4 movies at the State Theatre and so far, all are available. Sunday was spent doing odd jobs about the house and of course, a bit of reading down the back as the weather was perfect while John watched Hawthorn play and win.