Nicknames - where do they come from? Do males use them more than females? Is it or should it be a requirement that they make sense? It was only as I sat at home looking through the photos from the day at Adventure Parc and showing them to M and S and pointing out different folk when I realised why they call Magic "Magic" - his surname is Wand. I couldn't believe it had taken me all day to actually work that out - and it wasn't so much working it out as a flash of insight when I finally did get it.
It was a great day of team building - made even more so since I didn't have to swing through the trees and do all the adventure stuff. Instead I followed them around the course with Holly (also on the team) and the camera. And who knew that people can be so scared that they come out in hives and swell up - luckily she didn't this time, but Cherise did feel it coming on as she did part of the course, and decided to call it quits before it progressed. Sounded like a good decision.
Post Parc (it is a European concept - which may explain the European spelling), it was off to lunch at the St Bernards Hotel on Tambourine Mountain - where they do have a St Bernard in residence but he didn't appear to have the trademark keg around his neck. And we would have seen it if it was there because at one point he came and sat near our tables and proceeded to show us his various lounging poses including one where he lies flat out on his back, with some legs almost in the air. He seemed very happy to have the Autumn sun (while it was out) warming his tummy.
On the way down the Mountain, I came a different way (was this the short cut that M had suggested I take there?) and was back in the vicinity of Latimers in half an hour (let's not worry about how long it took me to get there this morning).
It seems to have been a quiet day at Latimers - or, nothing seemingly out of the ordinary - Emma is still taking every chance to get to other furry people drinking water, Tink is still enjoying the Man Chair, and Pearl is still with Nana. The nest builders really are not coming back - and the Kookaburras are still getting up just after me in the mornings. According to S, there is often a mist in the valley when they head off in the morning - and there is in the evenings sometimes too. Nope, it doesn't get much better than that!
