Thursday

Some days are diamond, others are gold ... and some are neither of these and are just plain ordinary (in the colloquial sense*) ... spectacularly so. But at least it's still raining - which means the tank is still filling (over-filling?) and the grass is still growing - it looks lush and green now. I'm hoping this wet spell will leave us by the weekend and I will get the opportunity to take ROM out for a bit and do some serious lawn mowing. This will be possible since we are now not planning to go away for the weekend - for a moment there it looked like we would be doing a visit to Toowoomba but we have deferred that until next weekend.

Name seven countries ending in "Y" - was the first question at the Advancetown Trivia this evening and between us, S and I managed to get them all. We weren't paying much attention though, as evidenced by the fact that we missed the answers to the picture questions of Round 1 (it really did look more like Fred Astaire than Sir Anthony Hopkins) - and had to ask on our way out. We were busy working on the Christmas list, something we have been meaning to do for a while as the holiday season is fast approaching - actually, it's almost upon us.

M and Mouse went off to Brisbane for the day - I caught something about Bank of Queensland and David Jones' Food Hall - and it seemed that the weather was "variable" up there - dry (unlike here) but cool in places. M had thought about taking the train up (usually a good option) but they ended up driving instead. But it was a quick run up and they were back in time for M to be at Zarraffa's at Nerang for a coffee this afternoon.

And guess whose driver licence turned up in the post today? Even though I paid for only two years' worth, it doesn't expire until 2016 - which I think relates to that the NSW licence I forfeited was valid for a couple of years yet. It's good to finally have the Queensland version - and a bonus that it's yellow!! And given how tired I felt the day the photo was taken, the pic came out a little better than the one on my passport - but admittedly then I had gone for the "this is how tired you will look when you front customs after a gazillion hours on a plane" look rather than the "this is how you will look when the police pull you over and ask to see your licence" one. Of course, at the time I didn't even think about the "this is the one you are going to use for ID most of the time" look.

Thinking back over the day, it might have started out fairly ordinary - but it did improve!

* From the Australian Oxford Dictionary: Ordinary - colloq. poor; below average. (When you think about it "ordinary" is no ordinary word - it can mean regular or boring or poor.)