April Fool's Day

I didn't see anything about April Fool's Day jokes or scams unless you count that YouTube is closing down and was actually an eight-year search for the world's funniest video (or something like that) or that Gina Rinehart, mining entrepreneur, had taken over stewardship of Channel TEN. We'll have to check the press tomorrow to see what other tricks have been played on people. But will any be as memorable as the time the BBC broadcast the story that pasta grew on trees!

Even though it's a public holiday, the Trivia crowd had decided to play tonight - and so we did! But we were a couple of team-mates down; St and Ni were off on Lady Elliott Island, having a couple of days away with Ch (Ni's sister). So, we asked Mi and M if they'd like to join us for the game. We had a "no" from both of them: Mi was having an early night so she's fresh for a translating job tomorrow, and M was due at the airport to collect The Great K, due back from Sydney. So it was quite a surprise (no joke!!) when M zoomed in just before Trivia started, and even before the meat tray raffle had been drawn ... she had rushed to be there on time (she made it!). I don't know how we're going to convince her to come next week ... because, with her help, we took out First tonight. (I still have to text the others to let them know that we have a new $50 voucher to use - but, alas, no drink vouchers for getting the Baffler because we didn't again this week. It's about time we did again - we've been off that action for a few weeks now.). And M won a meat tray!

So, that was the day that was, except we did manage to squeeze in breakfast at Ferry Road Markets (very nice!) and some home time. We did miss out on the free movie at The Big House, "Safe Haven" - Mouse and M did see it though and thought it was okay.

It has been a great break and it seems like it has been a long time since last week at work. Unfortunately some folk won't make it back to work: the road toll for the holiday period has been horrendous, one of the biggest on record with 20 fatalities (they don't tell you how many were injured nor how badly).