Aug 5, 2007

Parks and Beaches

Waterfall Had another field trip yesterday. Nicole had a day off work ill, but was on the mend, so I took the car down to get a new tyre put on.

The diagnosis was that it had been holed by a nail, so we'll just have to put that one down to back luck. Got a massive 200km off that tyre.

I'd spent a good hour phoning around wheel-merchants trying to find someone who stocked the right kind of tyre, and ended up at Chermside so I partook of the shopping mecca whilst the car was seen to, and lo and behold a new branch of the not-really-world-famous David Jones department store outlet was being opened by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, and I spotted a couple of big-wig politicians strolling around in the crowd.

I then grabbed a coffee after having spotted a copy of The Mote In God's Eye, an SF classic from the 70s which I've been trying to track down for years (though not really very hard), then picked up the car and drove down to Roma Street Parklands.

Doctor Nicole, Margaret, Bernice and I wandered around the Parklands for a few hours taking happy snaps of flowers, waterfalls, ferns and the like. The fern garden is in a shady gully, and as we were standing around deciding what to do next lots of little thingummies which I'd taken for tree-stumps started spraying out a fine mist, which was very photogenic.

In the afternoon Nicole rested up in bed while I took the other ladies out for a walk at the brook. We were going to go to the library but time ran out on us.

Today, after mowing the lawn, I went next door to try to sort out Peter's DVD-burning problem, and didn't really get anywhere, while Nicole performed further surgery on re-seeding another part of the lawn we hadn't done very well on up til now.

It's a bit shady over one side of the garden and what with the drought and all the lawn there has become a bit patchy. So we're trying to sort it out. We've already re-seeded one section and it's coming through OK, so heartened by that we're going to tackle the rest piecemeal.

Then we decided to go up the coast to Mooloolaba and had some sandwiches by the canal then walked up and around Point Cartwright, climbing on the rocks and so on and so forth. The sun was shining, it was a lovely day, all in all it was very nice. Eloise fell over in a rock pool and so all her clothes had to come off and the second half of the walk was done either naked or dressed in an enormous adult woolly jumper.

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