Thursday

Will the rain hold off long enough for me to do some mowing this afternoon? That is the question on everyone's lips - well, mine at least. It world be nice to get to it before it rains - otherwise it's getting so full, green and lush, it'll need to be done on a higher setting.

Fruit was delivered to work today and I managed to get to it before the rest of the hordes and walked away with a white peach. This reminds me of K and L in Sydney - and Bellinis - the taste of Summer at their house. Here the sound of Summer is a teaspoon scraping across a homemade fruit juice (or maybe cordial) ice block - and will continue to be until I can find the "freezy cup" - which you freeze overnight, pour liquid in, stir for a minute or so and it turns to ice. Yum.

We had our section's work Christmas lunch today at Lime on Chevron Island and that was very nice indeed. I will need to encourage S and M to come one day - I think they'd enjoy it. Afterwards, I went around the corner to the Gold Coast Arts Centre to pick up S - she and Mouse were there for a film which was, as it turned out, perhaps a little too violent for both of them. Then we three went off to The Big House for the "swipe your card for Christmas" promotion - Mouse got $25 yesterday, $50 today - S and I managed $10 each, each day. If we get the same tomorrow, that will pay for our dinners at the Food Fantasy Buffet next Friday (they will still have the 2-for-1 special going at that stage thou - so we could afford it now).

The Great K rang this evening. We are giving him a lift to the airport tomorrow and picking M up at the same time. Rather than having him come to Latimers, I will pick him up from his place out near the Uni - but leave plenty of time for the pick-up as M, who has been there to pick him up before - says it is fairly circuitous and not easy to find.

Well, despite my best intentions to get on ROM this afternoon, it didn't happen so it seems I have something to look forward to on Sunday on our return from Toowoomba. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to check out Carols and Christmas lights up there since we are going to miss the bigger ones here on the Coast on Saturday night.

B was around this afternoon, stoking the fires of the Great Bern-Off - hopefully he's found some more downed trees to burn otherwise the original one was humungous (and still burning five days later)! Luckily all the furries (even Emma) know to stay well out of the way as he zips past the house on his way to and from the conflagration.

Lockdown has been achieved - a little early at 8:45pm - but good nonetheless. We're trying for another early night, as S didn't sleep that well last night - and I believe she's planning to take it fairly easy tomorrow - just as well because she had a fall this evening when we arrived home and is waiting to see how she fronts up tomorrow.