Sunday 16 February

Staying up late last night was a bit of a mistake. I probably would have been okay had I not picked up my book when I climbed into bed ... because, finally, half an hour later - and with only thirty minutes left to read - I finally pulled up the covers, turned off the light, said goodnight to Tinka and went to sleep.

I had also, just to be on the safe side, set the alarm a little later - to squeeze in fifteen minutes more sleep before I needed to get ready for the Tr Skype call. They did go to the "This is Eugenia" event at the Museum of Sydney on Thursday night - and enjoyed it very much. It was done in the form of two plays - from different points of view - one by Mark Tedeschi has written a book on his/her life. Eugenia was born a girl but chose to live her life as a man. This was only discovered after his/her second marriage - when s/he was arrested for the murder of his/her first wife. (Pronouns can be difficult sometimes!)

Happy Birthday

There was a full complement at the Markets today - including the Russians. This was good because there were more people to sing "Happy Birthday" to Mi.

Syl and An are back and were at the Markets too and after the Markets (and a quick visit to JB Hi FI) we met them at the new complex at the Isle of Capri. Very nice and it was great to catch up with them.

Then it was on to The Big House for the great Card Swipings - which M has been doing but she was off with the Russians - who were off at Et's as he was taking them jet-ski-ing. We remembered when we were already on our way home from lunch so Sooz agreed that we had to go back in - and rather than having the 30c soft serve we had planned to get at Maccas on the way home - we decided to have a Spinners' Showboat - which we would pay for with the Casino Dollars we won on the swipings. It always pays to have a plan - because that's exactly what we did - the one winner in six swipes was Sooz who won $25 Casino Dollars - more than enough! I had hoped we would win something for someone else ... but not to be this time. On the good side though, I did hear a machine call my name - and when I saw it was a 10 cent machine I hesitated, especially since I only had a $20 note but decided that if I listen to the air con while I'm playing CSP, I had no reason not to listen to a machine ... and it knew what it was talking about - on the third spin I managed 4 of a kind - $50 - so I pressed "COLLECT", took my ticket, and walked away.