In the park

Lazy dog walking I sit on the play equipment and she wanders around sniffing. Busy day putting the ikea lanterns together for the table decorations at daughters wedding and buy underwear always stressful and a pretty new purse. 

Sore

Really achy 2 busy days at work and two days golf. I had an afternoon nap on Wednesday bit sad! Golf went well nice ladies and we really enjoyed the day didn't play too bad but not a winning round.
I lost my post about our trip to Sydney to see rosencranz and gildenstein are dead. As you get older the plays you think you know reveal new ideas. We stayed at the seven pier one near the bridge I think it is the most beautiful hotel, not the deco but where it is. You wake up in the morning watching the tug boats fishing boats etc going down the harbour. We did two visits to Morris and sons in York st to buy their lovely wool and found a lovely French cafe called la renaissance in argyle st in the rocks.
Also bought a great book at the MCA museum of contemporary art at the Rocks. Its called Lessons from Madame Chic and was born from a blog. 

We saw a row of houses that looked straight out of the arts and craft movement as we were walking around the Rocks. 

The big decision

Well I've done it resigned my position and am going to work on the casual pool. So I get to decide when I want to work. I wonder how much of the hospital is casual pool now. Everyone on it says they really like it and there is lots of work. Really through I don't mind if there isn't, can just wind down. What precipitated my move was being put on morning shifts through the week disturbing my golf and tennis arrangements but really it has been quite interesting on the daytime, all the great ones drifting around. I actually quite like day shift but it just doesn't fit my life and I get a bit tired of the kind of ambitious people on the days. Some changes are for the better but the understaffing is still a problem. All very well increasing the safety things but no increase in the staffing. Also some of it is crazy amounts of paperwork. I wish I could move like I used to but now I have to sit down and have a rest.

I am doing the 2-5 fasting diet, on five days you eat normally and on two days you only eat 500 calls (600 if male). It's working I am loosing weight but sometimes eating out too much, or eating to be social. I have to get a bit stricter. Made salmon patties tonight yum. 

I'm knitting a shawl really nice wool 2ply, just a simple pattern. I really like simple patterns, except I love fair isle. Golf tomorrow so off to bed been a very traumatic week. Nice picture of the pelican conference. 

 

Sunday morning

    We are in our usual spot, doggie and me the front veranda in the sun reading the papers. Well I am reading she sniffing and sleeping. Sniffing must be like reading the paper to her only reading the air. We have lost lots of those intelligences smell and sight hearing, at least if not lost not paid attention to. We still have more of them than we think. We can do amazing things like in tennis hitting a ball to exactly the spot we want sometimes anyway. It's an amazing calculation all done in a spit second. 

     I've only worked one day this week. I want to work regular shifts in this the twilight of my "career" but of course that doesn't happen so I had a sickie as they had rostered me on one of the golf days. I have to make decision about leaving or going on the casual pool or plodding along taking sickies when they roster me on days I don't want to work. I don't feel too guilty as the casual pool girls haven't been getting much work so they get my shift. They employed four nurses on contact for winter, they have gone now so we are short again. Such meanness through, all that effort those girls made to learn the place and now they are out, I guess they are on the casual pool again. My husband sent me this graphic, I wonder if our "winter staffing" is included in this. Really the cynicism of the leaders wears you down, we have just had a big investigation into a bunch of very rich politicians and business leaders and a union leader's scheme to enrich themselves at the publics expense. Now they are going to decide if they are going to charge them with anything. On past form they won't be charged. I won't even get into the investigation of church paedophilia. Too sad. Enough of the barbarians at the gate. 

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.