I made a jumper but it didn't fit anyone properly so I undid it but the the wool gets crinkles and doesn't knit up well so I was thinking how to straighten it out without washing it all I thought I could wind it around the ironing board and iron it under a damp cloth and then pull it round until the whole lot is covered.
I'm watching the last game of the NBA finals, I really love San Antonio but the previous game I couldn't believe how they lost in overtime, you get a bit suspicious about some games in all sports and about drugs. The rugby league players just unbelievably built up at young ages. The bike riders are still getting riders chucked off teams for drug use.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
About to go out
And I really don't want to. To a trivia night. It's windy and cold and I was really looking forward to veging out. A friend asked before and I said ok because it was off in the never never. Oh well. I've really socialised enough this week. Three days of golf and lunch with the golfers and golf meeting. No winning but a lot of laughs at our terrible shots. I just want to stay home and knit socks, such a granny (I wish), through actually I've never much been a going out person. I like to see something like a play or a movie but australian clubs and pubs have always been like sitting in a tiled toilet. Literally they were all tiled, I guess to wash the blood off. One of the first times I went to a pub boys were having a spitting contest up the wall.
Aussie pubs were very men places and men culture, drinking fighting, women go there now but sometimes just not very far under the surface is all the nasty stuff. Now the women do the fighting as well and the drinking. They do this thing glassing people which is putting a broken glass into someone's face. One girl did it to another a couple of years ago.
We won the trivia, with me as table leader! I must have been channelling my husband, he is really good at that stuff but he was at work.
It's cold now but we still like to have coffee at the beach.
Aussie pubs were very men places and men culture, drinking fighting, women go there now but sometimes just not very far under the surface is all the nasty stuff. Now the women do the fighting as well and the drinking. They do this thing glassing people which is putting a broken glass into someone's face. One girl did it to another a couple of years ago.
We won the trivia, with me as table leader! I must have been channelling my husband, he is really good at that stuff but he was at work.
It's cold now but we still like to have coffee at the beach.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Trying to rain day, queens birthday holiday
It's kind of crazy that we still have a holiday for the queens birthday but also crazy we still have a queen. Mostly my generation (the talking bout my generation) generation think we should have nicely said farewell to all that but our children love it all and look with horror at the idea of loosing their gossip magazine relationship with the royals. So republicanism doesn't get much interest and maybe better the devil you know than some party appointed hack, better they ship that lot off as ambassadors to embarrass us far away.
We stayed on the weekend at the eldest's place and went out to dinner with them at local hotel restaurant, lovely meal and weirdly cheap, they take 20 % off the bill if you are a member of their club. On Sunday they went off to a wedding and we went to look at the Japanese garden and cafe at the local arts centre. They had a group ofmodern art lighting pieces. I don't know what to call that kind of art but it was interesting. The Japanese garden was small but very lovely and the pool was full of beautiful carp and the cafe was very good. A lovely afternoon.
We stayed on the weekend at the eldest's place and went out to dinner with them at local hotel restaurant, lovely meal and weirdly cheap, they take 20 % off the bill if you are a member of their club. On Sunday they went off to a wedding and we went to look at the Japanese garden and cafe at the local arts centre. They had a group ofmodern art lighting pieces. I don't know what to call that kind of art but it was interesting. The Japanese garden was small but very lovely and the pool was full of beautiful carp and the cafe was very good. A lovely afternoon.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Lots of rain
No golf just doing aquaroebics. Big storms lots of thunder and lightening. This is a picture of the backyard and the moon. We are watching the giro, the tour of Italy.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Wigan Wigan Wigan
I support Norwich which my husband gave me as I like Delia Smiths cook books and we started to watch the premier league as they show more matches now. When Norwich went down he gave me Wigan who had come up. We watched them win the FA cup against Man City, didn't think they would win but was so happy about the way they played and then they got a goal we just screamed and cried, amazing. Often the "big games" turn out kind of boring but not this one. I want to move to England and live in Wigan.
Then two days later they lost and it meant they are relegated. Awful that they are going down but it's what makes the Premier league great, except when its your team going down.
Then two days later they lost and it meant they are relegated. Awful that they are going down but it's what makes the Premier league great, except when its your team going down.
Friday, May 10, 2013
The rest of angry bird week
It didn't go too bad, had a good game of golf, two nice and not angry ladies. I played well the first 9 holes but terrible the second 9. I just get tired and very sore. I've had a very sore week altogether probably ate too many wrong foods and its made my joints flair up. I think they should make arthritis pap food with nothing in it. Started with real creme in the cake at tennis, Chinese food that night, spaghetti and the smoked hock in the pea and ham soup. I know the things that set it off but I eat them anyway, stoopid. I'm starting a food/soreness diary to try and make myself eat better. We always seem to have a cake at tennis as its always someone's birthday and I don't like to not join in but I should take the creme off.
The next day of golf where we just play 9 holes was quite slow. The girls in front of us, who are lovely people wander over to each others ball discuss it and finally hit then do that for the next ball. In golf there are a lot of rules about how you play, but you start to see why after you play for a while. You are supposed to go to your own ball or as close as is safe and be ready to hit it as soon as the other ball is hit. The rules make sense for safety and speed of play. I used to chat as it makes me feel comfortable with people but I've learnt to chat a little but put the game first and think we will have a nice chat after the game. Finally they waved us through. But I did not get angry just lost concentration and played silly shots through I do that enough without help!
Today I am not so sore which is nice and pottering about a home.
We are going to see the financial advisor about me retiring. It used to be in Australia that most people retired and got the old age pension, only a few people had superannuation but since the 80's super is compulsory so now you have to think much more about money than workers used to. It's leading to some big problems, crooked funds and advisors, inexperienced people handing large sums of money which is supposed to last for years (how many years is another great unknown). Funds in a bull market making projections of much larger sums than happened, I've noticed they have stopped doing that and now issue warnings on their statements.
What I think now some investments work out and some don't. And of course we are in the baby boomers queue, think of some great idea and 10 thousand thought of it before you.
I'm reading this book, its from a tv series, very good.
The next day of golf where we just play 9 holes was quite slow. The girls in front of us, who are lovely people wander over to each others ball discuss it and finally hit then do that for the next ball. In golf there are a lot of rules about how you play, but you start to see why after you play for a while. You are supposed to go to your own ball or as close as is safe and be ready to hit it as soon as the other ball is hit. The rules make sense for safety and speed of play. I used to chat as it makes me feel comfortable with people but I've learnt to chat a little but put the game first and think we will have a nice chat after the game. Finally they waved us through. But I did not get angry just lost concentration and played silly shots through I do that enough without help!
Today I am not so sore which is nice and pottering about a home.
We are going to see the financial advisor about me retiring. It used to be in Australia that most people retired and got the old age pension, only a few people had superannuation but since the 80's super is compulsory so now you have to think much more about money than workers used to. It's leading to some big problems, crooked funds and advisors, inexperienced people handing large sums of money which is supposed to last for years (how many years is another great unknown). Funds in a bull market making projections of much larger sums than happened, I've noticed they have stopped doing that and now issue warnings on their statements.
What I think now some investments work out and some don't. And of course we are in the baby boomers queue, think of some great idea and 10 thousand thought of it before you.
I'm reading this book, its from a tv series, very good.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Is it the weather?
I was thinking of a good theme for a post but its forgotten by the real theme of the last 24 hours, the rudeness and anger of people. I took the dog for a walk and a man in his garden looked at her I was about to say a pleasant hello when he said is it pooing I didn't answer, she was doing her endless little pees,you don't give a shit he says. I just walked away as he came over to check it out.
Yesterday we went to a short early dinner with friends when my husband starts knocking my knee to leave. I don't feel so much the rudeness towards my friend seeing she ended one dinner we were having by tapping on her watch to her husband. But the rudeness to me. I was trying yet again to get my friend to see the situation with her in laws in a reasonable light and failing dismally. One mans reasonable is another's insanity.
In the morning at tennis one of the women started going at the woman doing the draw for not mixing players up enough, she was trying to explain it was because some of us had arrived late and we only had one court that day. She went on and on till the women said well you do it then, no says the complainer I do enough. Then she tells me I should arrive earlier, I said well I don't we stay up late. (I'm over the virtue of early rising, I've done all shifts, there's none better than another). And I should have said if that's a problem maybe I won't come at all.
Is it the weather? Which is quite lovely warm days cool nights.
I would like to live in France are they nicer there? I'm going to google the politest country in the world. I doubt its Australia. On a nicer note I'm going to make pork hock and lentil soup for dinner and not think about people for the rest of the day. I am reading a book by Robert Graves called the isles of unwisdom about the attempted settlement of the Solomon Islands in the 1590's by the Spanish those people could really do petty tyranny. I think it's probably out of print we found it on the net ex-welsh library copy. Amazing it is a great book.
Yesterday we went to a short early dinner with friends when my husband starts knocking my knee to leave. I don't feel so much the rudeness towards my friend seeing she ended one dinner we were having by tapping on her watch to her husband. But the rudeness to me. I was trying yet again to get my friend to see the situation with her in laws in a reasonable light and failing dismally. One mans reasonable is another's insanity.
In the morning at tennis one of the women started going at the woman doing the draw for not mixing players up enough, she was trying to explain it was because some of us had arrived late and we only had one court that day. She went on and on till the women said well you do it then, no says the complainer I do enough. Then she tells me I should arrive earlier, I said well I don't we stay up late. (I'm over the virtue of early rising, I've done all shifts, there's none better than another). And I should have said if that's a problem maybe I won't come at all.
Is it the weather? Which is quite lovely warm days cool nights.
I would like to live in France are they nicer there? I'm going to google the politest country in the world. I doubt its Australia. On a nicer note I'm going to make pork hock and lentil soup for dinner and not think about people for the rest of the day. I am reading a book by Robert Graves called the isles of unwisdom about the attempted settlement of the Solomon Islands in the 1590's by the Spanish those people could really do petty tyranny. I think it's probably out of print we found it on the net ex-welsh library copy. Amazing it is a great book.
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