Nov 10, 2007

Shops, Beach

On the Beach Well it's Saturday and the weather's looking nice (ish) so it would be rude not to go to Nudgee Beach.

The tides were wrong for the morning so I borrowed the lawnmower from Peter next door and Mum did some housework.

We fixed the clothes drier outside, which had inexplicably fallen apart, using traditional materials with a new twist, to wit nylon rope. At the corners are (were) plastic formers which had sheared. No amount of imagination on my part could understand why this would have happened, although plastic does tend to be weakened by exposure to sunlight.

Anyway, we thought we'd go to Chermside to go shopping and expose the Old Dear to the Mall experience, only realising when we arrived that it was Saturday and this was actually a really bad idea... impossible to park, God knows what it must have been like inside... but we aborted and went shopping in good old Woollie's instead and adjourned home for Baked Beans.

Now she was up at six o'clock this morning and the other ladies didn't sleep so well so we were hoping for a chance for a middle of the day nap before going to the beach to catch the tide, but nothing doing.

After a power nap (probably) of ten minutes she was up again, jumping around and shouting so we sighed and got up and down the beach we went.

Windy it was and fully clad we walked far and wide until Eloise fell over and soaked herself to the skin. She was carried back nice and snug in her Mum's top.

Then a coffee and a chino and home again.

Teamwork ruled OK, or something approaching teamwork as I cooked coconut and egg curry and Mum cooked accompanying sag aloo and raita.

We are now feeling fat. But still looking trim....

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