By Slanted Light

Dramatic skies...

Just roads.

I got my energy back! I was able to go to the fair! Hooray! *g*

It started with a parade (these guys are from my nephew's primary school, although he was marching with his soccer team instead). They're all bees! How cute is that! *g*

Then there was fair food. Mini pancakes, with butter and lemon and maple syrup! Fairy floss was never blue in my day - but it seemed like the only fresh fairy floss around, so we tried it. It actually tasted of something (though not fairy floss like I remember) and it melted in your mouth, and it turned you entirely blue. Okay, it might just have felt like entirely, but I kept wanting to check my face for blue-ness for hours after. *g*

Traditional fair events - the woodchopping competition, and pole-vaulting!! The Australian champion wood chopper was there later in the day, and having given the others a 28 second lead, he still beat everyone!

We had a break for a few hours (well, I took mum out for a drive into the hills, cos it was a gorgeous day), and then we went for an Indian and came back in time to see the torchlight parade (the emergency services) and then the fireworks!



So all in all, it was rather a nice day to make up for Friday's rough one!

I managed to get out in the morning, to my nephew's sport's day. Remember those...?!
And I can never remember what this kind of tree is. There's lots of them in London, and they have these fab winter-Christmas-baubles all through winter... does anyone know?

I could feel a cold coming on - inevitable really, since my sister, who I'm staying with, had one last week. I was alright out in the fresh air, but I went from there to the health food shop for some raw honey (which I hear is even more soothing than Strepsils and the like when you have a cold), managed to cancel my work for two days, have soup and ice cream for dinner, stay up until about 9.30pm, and then that was it. I took my aching bones to bed - blargh!

Roasted vegetable focaccia for lunch - I have got to remember to include thin slices of pumpkin in my sandwiches when I get home - it's lush! *g*

And another picture of gum blossom, cos I love it... *g*I'm going to have to do something more interesting, aren't I... *g* Today was mostly about swapping my hire car - the Kia Rio that I had felt more plush, but the Mitsubishi Mirage is a much better drive - the back window is big and low enough to actually see out of (useful when you're reversing, you know...), the indicators actually stop and start when I want them to, not after some bizarre delay, and it can accelerate - even though it's an automatic. Although the seats are definitely not quite as comfortable - it's almost as if I have to sit up and drive... *g*

Breakfast out again today (even though it was eaten around lunchtime!), and just around the corner as we headed back was this mural, which I rather like.

In the garden next door to my sister's there was this flower... ...and in my brother's driveway, this gumtree still has a few blossoms.

Hope you're having (have had, will have had... *g*) a nice Sunday!

Pics on the move at last - a brief escape from family... I can hear kookaburras now and then, and a few other birds. This is Sugarloaf Reservoir, which helps keep Melbourne in water...

Oh, and I just looked across the road - those dots are kangaroos... *g*

Here's a pic for all the people I know will appreciate it - rainy London!
I seem to be back in the UK, having barely posted about not being in the UK, which is a shame because I was not in the UK alot. The thing is, of course, not being in the UK meant either being off doing things, or else being too tired after doing things... But I have four days in London (well, three now), and although I must do some work and various chores, I will try and post some pics, cos I had a lovely time and ended up visiting five different countries too. Yeay travelling!

Oh, have the view from my window tonight too... And the bliss of it being cool!

...and it looked like this. That's a plane to Germany, that is. *g*




Then it looked like this...
The dark patches in the first one aren't lakes, they're forests! Gemany is still such a wooded country, how lucky... *g*

Friday was today...
...and it looked alot like work, but it also looked like this when I went out with milomaus to help with foodsharing, which is just an excellent thing to do (and a nice counter to the thought of the "guest" currently in the UK)... *g* I still have lots of work to do, and next week too, right up until that Friday, when I'm declaring my proper holiday starts. *g* I've not had a single day off since 19th May - I reckon I deserve a week or three, and I'm going to have them. Maybe I'll remember who I am, rather than what work is waiting for me!

How're you doing...?