Golf golf golf

I played yesterday and today. They were starting night golf which looked like fun. You play with a lit up ball and there are lights down the fairway, maybe it will be harder to see the bad shots. Today we played at the other course I play at. The sky was spectacular and then it started raining but we finished the game not too wet. The sky was like the skies at the snow, I miss going to the snow through I was never any good at skiing. Tried to learn too old and afraid of heights but I love the Snowy Mountains they are beautiful. I am going to watch the Tour de France  riding up the Alpe d'huez twice, I think that's a bit much if they expect the riders not to take drugs I think they should set reasonable rides. Maybe the riders think it is ok. I hope they protest if they think the rides are dangerously hard. I think riding a flat road for 200kms is awesome. 

T is

Blue skies

Finally it stopped raining. We are watching the Tour de France they are starting in Corsica which is beautiful. Corsica is a lot bigger than I thought. It's the 100th year of the tour. Back at work is not so bad,yet, we were quiet on the weekend and I got my passwords sorted out and had time to look at the changes in the IT so that makes things easier. Still getting my head around retirement, the financial guy said it took his father 5 years to retire. You worry about the money lasting and if you can do some travel. We are going to the beach for coffee so I will take a nice picture.

Bright idea maybe

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.