We are not going to Vietnam now. Our friend was organising the trip said people who said they are coming have pulled out so it would cost a lot more. We are pleased really because our daughter has bought a house!! and we loaned her some money to get them over the line with the deposit and they will be moving in after Easter so we want to be there to help. It is really strange when your children do such grown up things. We will just do little local trips which is nice also other daughter having a little operation so we are glad to be home to look after her. I would rather help them than travel.
I want to go to the Royal Easter show and see the crafts and animals and cakes. If we go before school breaks up we will miss the crowds. I love the chooks and the pigs. I would really like a little farm. Today we used the high pressure water cleaner we bought it was so much fun we will be cleaning everything in the holidays. The paths which all looked black now look like newish cement.
Better go shower we are going out to dinner for my birthday.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
culture culture on the 20th century
We have seen the Picasso exhibition in Sydney, the Renaissance exhibition, the nurses at war exhibition, children in orphanages, and an exhibition at the national library of letters by lots of high achievers Darwin, James Cook Mozart and lots of others. Yesterday we went to see a musical in Sydney by a little theatre which is doing musicals rarely seen or never seen in Aus. It was amazing they had one rehearsal and had notebooks of the words which they read and sung but it was great. It was called "On the 20th Century" because the action takes place on a train called the 20th century. A guy called John Dierich I kept thinking I knew him and I did I remember him in a TV show when he was in his 20's. He won a Bafta so he and the rest of the cast were really good. Apart from watching it I kept wishing I could be a theatre angel and film them all they were so good. I'm sure it would be a big hit!
We stayed at our daughters and then did a foodie and nursery tour home. We went to a German butcher and a really nice cafe and a nursery.
Well guess what after a day of no rain it is back again, there are floods all over the state. There were waterfalls on the highway. Of course they have built a desalination plant to supply more water because we had the long drought now the dams are so full they are spilling over. Extremes. Gardens full of drought resistant plants are rotting, water tanks are over flowing and signs saying garden watered by tank look silly, big campaigns run to make people "water wise"look like a joke, somehow the driest continent on earth feels like the soggiest. must go to bed aquarobics in the morning and no golf again this week probably as it is supposed to rain everyday in March.
We stayed at our daughters and then did a foodie and nursery tour home. We went to a German butcher and a really nice cafe and a nursery.
Well guess what after a day of no rain it is back again, there are floods all over the state. There were waterfalls on the highway. Of course they have built a desalination plant to supply more water because we had the long drought now the dams are so full they are spilling over. Extremes. Gardens full of drought resistant plants are rotting, water tanks are over flowing and signs saying garden watered by tank look silly, big campaigns run to make people "water wise"look like a joke, somehow the driest continent on earth feels like the soggiest. must go to bed aquarobics in the morning and no golf again this week probably as it is supposed to rain everyday in March.
Wet wet wet
It is supposed to rain x21/29 days this month and it's well on the way to it. We seem to have a tropical climate, a sunny morning followed by thunder storms in the afternoon, but I'm grateful even for a mornings sunshine because sometimes it hasn't stopped all day. Last week I had to go get husband and daughter in the middle of flash flooding, very scarey.
It's a scarey Australian story about people camping in a dry riverbed In fine weather being washed away and drowned because of rain upstream. At least we were in a car through we kept hitting sheets of water on the road. Oh here it starts again thunder.
We were going shopping for luggage because we are going to Vietnam but then we thought we might research it a bit so we will just go have fish and chips for dinner and then watch the champions league show and our videos on paintings called "The Life of a masterpiece". I missed tennis today which I feel bad about but I slept in. I did night duty on the weekend. I hate nights now they make me feel really crummy and I was cranky because of the way they distributed the patient load I had 2 of the five new caesars the longest walk down the ward and 6 patients. One of the others had 3 patients one new Caesar and the shortest walk. Then I protested so they make you feel bad. These are my "friends" so much for nursing friends. But that's how it goes we all tired and old all trying to preserve ourselves by burning others.
It's a scarey Australian story about people camping in a dry riverbed In fine weather being washed away and drowned because of rain upstream. At least we were in a car through we kept hitting sheets of water on the road. Oh here it starts again thunder.
We were going shopping for luggage because we are going to Vietnam but then we thought we might research it a bit so we will just go have fish and chips for dinner and then watch the champions league show and our videos on paintings called "The Life of a masterpiece". I missed tennis today which I feel bad about but I slept in. I did night duty on the weekend. I hate nights now they make me feel really crummy and I was cranky because of the way they distributed the patient load I had 2 of the five new caesars the longest walk down the ward and 6 patients. One of the others had 3 patients one new Caesar and the shortest walk. Then I protested so they make you feel bad. These are my "friends" so much for nursing friends. But that's how it goes we all tired and old all trying to preserve ourselves by burning others.
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