No date night tonight as we went out last night and are going out again tomorrow night - and we have to spend some time at home otherwise the kids would be far too lonely. S went into CWA MasterChef mode and prepared a new dish for dinner - curried beef sausages - and they were truly yummy. Somebody will be having leftovers for lunch tomorrow - and is looking forward to it very much.
Good news? The Bureau of Meteorology issued a national forecast for a warm, early spring. no surprises in learning that above-average temperatures are expected in Queensland - centered on Latimers no doubt.
There is still no sign of the north Queensland bank manager who has gone missing ... or the reported $3 million that went with him.
Coles Labrador closed it's doors for a short time today after a woman drove her car into them - she and her car were unharmed but the doors didn't make it.
The Queensland Government will not rush a new payroll system for police, fire and ambulance officers - especially as the one rolled out for nurses is still not operating correctly. Sounds like a job for A if she wants one - but would she want it?
Sunday's Great Debate is struggling to get a live audience. A marketing company is offering folk $50 cash to attend. Callers responding to a Hot Tomato survey overwhelmingly said "no" they wouldn't go for the dough, but one did have a couple of ideas for deciding the election - use Paul the Octopus or have Ms Gillard and Mr Abbott battle it out MasterChef style.
ABC News 24 went live at 7:30pm. The 24-hour service can be accessed via digital television, Austar, abc.net.au/news or - for those lucky enough to have an iPhone - a specially designed application available for download via iTunes. (ABC News - the US one this time - also launched a new app - which looks awesome and hopefully works as well.)
Wordnet - the puzzle/dictionary application has been updated and was correctly able to return a search on heliotrope: A plant that follows the sun with its flowers and leaves and is popularly known as "turnsole." Heliotrope was believed to render its possessor invisible if the body was rubbed all over with the juice of this herb, which was also reputed to stop bleeding and avert danger from poison. This was a little surprising as some of us didn't even know we knew the word!
It was "extreme animals" (none of them Latimers) day today - all of them managing to survive. A wee black cat came to the footpath to cross to the Carrara Steak House - but thankfully looked both ways before stepping onto the road - thereby managing to make it; the other was a mother and father duck (Duckess and Drake?) and their ducklings who were standing (luckily as they blended well with the road until we were almost on top of them) on the other side of the road, at dusk, as Lars rounded the bend near the Hinde turnoff. They seemed unperturbed, feathers unruffled and continued on their way. Then, like some huge reminder of the existence of avian beings in the universe at large, at the end of the Latimers driveway was a massive cloud in the shape of a duck - or a kookaburra by the time the camera was retrieved from the boot to take the shot - which looks like neither of those birds!
S spent some quality time with Hermes, as she does every day - and noted that he is "looking good". Jacket is off and on at the right times of day - and hay turns up as expected, and water is topped up too!
Life is good at Latimers ... but not so good that someone can stay away longer than planned!
