It's worth having a Go Card if you're planning to do more than a single journey. From Nerang to Roma Street is $11.20 for a single adult ticket or $7.70 with a Go Card - for which you have to pay a $5 deposit - hence the "if you're planning to do more than a single journey" otherwise you end up paying more.
The iPad with Telstra 3G gives access all the way on the train. It would have been good enough for Skype if anyone else had been online although perhaps the other people on the train were happier that there wasn't.
The new Supreme Court Building is going to be 17 storeys high but because it will have higher than standard floors it will actually be taller than the building across the way which has more floors. There will be multiple holding cells for prisoners in the building - hadn't even considered that as an option so that came as a bit of a surprise.
You can know you're dreaming even while you're dreaming. Padtheway had huge gouges out of the screen in my dream and I remember saying to myself that it was okay because it was just a dream (nightmare more like).
The two mothers-to-be (no sign of foal #1 yet) do not like being kept in separate paddocks. L has divided their usual paddock into two and is keeping them apart. Lindy seemed quite ornery this morning as I drove past.
Pearl has me absolutely well-trained. If she sees me outside now in the morning before I go off to work, she'll follow me out and drop the ball at my feet as if to say "how about it?". I don't have the heart to say no to her. And ever since we talked about taking her to the vet, she's been fine! Do you think that perhaps the vet's isn't her favourite place to visit?
The drive out in the morning is going to start to take longer. More and more birdlife is showing up at Latimers and I'm thinking I need to walk up in the morning first to get some shots. I missed out on some magnificent kookaburras this morning - and some wee black and white birds sitting on the back of one of L's horses.
The hoons (that's hoons not loons) are back on the main road again. We heard them last night and just as I started writing this I can hear them again. This morning on the way in I noticed rubber had been laid on the road from the bridge up to the Hinde turn-off - on both sides of the road so we're probably lucky that no-one was hurt. I haven't seen them on the roundabouts on Gilston Road but they usually don't do that unless it's wet.
"Don't try to board this train: you will be disappointed" the announcer at Roma Street Station said as he cautioned people, for the final time, not to board the train standing at Platform 5. It was a different way of getting the message across.
It was less than satisfactory today to hear that Ms JG, at last night's forum, had taken potshots at Mr Abbott. Thought it was a bit of bad form. There is no reason to stoop to that level. There's also probably no reason that Mr Abbott has to take a leaf out of David Campbell's book and say that he is going to stay awake for the next 36 hours (until the polls open) so he can touch base with as many Australian voters as he is able. He will allow himself some cat naps, but that's about it. There is some concern among some in the media that a tired Mr Abbott will be a reckless Mr Abbott ... not sure if they mean we will again see that Mr Phony Tony. Not sure exactly what he hopes to achieve by doing it - especially since, as most radio folk have pointed out, everyone else is going to be asleep during this "heroic" gesture. Will it make an impression on the undecided voting public ... we'll find out on Saturday - or Sunday when the result of the election selection is known. (It is nice, though, not to have to watch the election ads.)
After a day that was warm enough to be Summer, it has cooled down this evening and a light rain has begun to fall. Maggie has taken to sleeping in her basket down the end again - she has been sleeping on the top of one of the couches,and just before we settled down for the night, P decided she needed to sleep on the couch where Beasley was. It wasn't quite tears before bedtime but it was most definitely a hissable offence. Tink stayed right out of it - she's still comfortable on the recliner.
Oh, and the other thing I learned today was if you are going to go trekking all over a building site for an hour, going up and down stairs of different heights, and then stay on your feet the rest of the day, except for the hour sitting down on the train on the way home, chances are that you might just be a little stiff come evening. But it was good to be wearing PPE (personal protective equipment - hard hat, safety goggles, bright yellow vest, steel capped boots and gloves)- just a pity there's not a pic of it. While it was fun, I'm looking forward to being back at the other site tomorrow.
