Saturday

Well, we have left Latimers behind us today and are in ... Sydney! M did a great job of getting us to the airport in time this morning ... but we all knew I would be stressing out about something ... it's a general condition of flying for me until I am actually in the plane and on the way. This time it was the length of the line for the bag drop and then the amount of time to get through the security screening point especially since the metal detector seemed to be giving false positives with most people in the line in front of us having to be scanned with the hand wand or just having to go through the archway again - sometimes wearing the same, sometimes with their shoes off, or their belt off (that was me). But we did make the flight in good time and settled in for the trip to Sydney - knowing that M had taken herself off to a beach at Coolangatta to wait for New South Wales to open.
When she texted later in the day, it was, as well as a general update re Em, to say she had been on the mower and the news was not good. I wondered if it was the battery playing up again but apparently not. It seems to be something to do with the "cuttng deck". I don't think that sounds good - and from the tone of the text and tbe "Grrr" included, it doesn't sound as though she does either.
S is still sick and we took the opportunity of getting her some cold and flu tablets - which she took with a nap at the hotel this afternoon while I took Nick out to do some photography in the city. For me there's no better way of checking out how a new camera works than taking it to where you've been before.