It was nice to see a bit more of the Sun today - which gives us hope that the weather folk may have the forecast for the rest of the week wrong and we could be in for a for dry days. M took the opportunity to jump on the mower and do the grass around the house and it's new looking a bit more like a lawn. She wasn't the only Latimer's resident grabbing the opportunity , L was out as well doing the lane verges.
Also out and about were the Council road crews and while they managed to fill most of the potholes on the road into Latimers, they did miss one - which is a shame because once you notice they've done such a good job on the others you are really not expecting that last pothole not to have been filled. Lars managed to swerve to miss it in time but had anything been coming from the other direction we might have been amongst the growing ranks who have been having tyres repaired or replaced.
If you think of taking up a sport, will it be something in which you might do yourself a real injury - like the Coast man who recently won in the jet class at the National Air Race Championship in the US where he risked life and limb flying between huge steel pylons at more than 600km/h less than 15m off the ground? Golf must seem really tame after doing something like that!
With more movie projects slated for the Coast (although that may change now the Aussie dollar is so strong) it's not surprising to see more ads for extras - although even I wasn't expecting it to be so specific: "Tall, thin Caucasian, African, Asian, Hispanic people needed." That's a lot to ask in a person. And we're not even going anywhere near the other ad for film work!
Hermes is still playing with the next door horses and hopefully it will be dry enough for him to come home tomorrow. We miss looking out and seeing him grazing in his paddocks. But there is at least one hare who isn't missing him - at least today when it took a shortcut through the paddock to meet up with another hare who was scampering through a paddock a couple over. I couldn't believe how quickly they moved but then remembered there is probably an instinctual imperative for rapid movement - as with most animals. But there was nothing chasing them this morning so they had started the day well.
Not as happy is a young lad overseas who decided to donate his slider turtle to a local zoo when the turtle became too big to look after. Staff popped it into an enclosure as he watched and an alligator in the same enclosure, who had never before shown any interest in sliders, promptly swallowed this one whole. (There is a brilliant episode of QI which talks about why the giant turtles from the Galapagos Islands were not given a Latin species name until well over 300 years after they were discovered. It seems that anything that was named needed to be taken to London where the naming took place, and because the giant turtles were so tasty, none of them ever made it back.)
While yesterday we were sad at Dame Joan's passing, today we were happy to hear that they have started bringing the 33 Chilean miners, trapped underground for 69 days, to the surface. This has been a mammoth undertaking and quite a feat in engineering especially as original estimates suggested there would be no chance of rescue before Christmas.
