Monday

It was another morning for sleeping in at Latimers - for Sooz anyway as I am still on morning pet duties. It was good though because I was able to get a couple of small jobs out of the way before she woke and we moved on with the day.

Pearl was a bit upset this morning because the wind has come up - and she doesn't appear to be a big fan of wind! It was an interesting furries morning though. Maggie, on being offered her breakfast the first two times assured me she wasn't in the slighest bit hungry and then settled into devouring hers before going over to Tinka and insisting she move out of the way - which she did - and then Maggie wolfed into Tinka's breakfast as well. Tinka wasn't put out ... just marched straight over to Maggie's dish to forage what she could there until Maggie came back over and nudged her out if the way! It was a wonder Pearl didn't muscle in on the act but she didn't - she stood aside until the cats had finished, been let outside, and only then did she swoop in to eat any morsels that had fallen onto the floor. Luckily there were some.

Hose fix

We did make it to Bunnings today - managed to avoid the sausage sizzle and came out with Sooz's plants and a hose joiner. Who knew there were such things? I had asked for some waterproof tape to fix a leak but apparently that hasn't been invented yet. The hose turned out to be easier to fix than I'd thought - and tomorrow when the gray water starts running again, we'll see what kind of a job I did.

It turned quite cool this afternoon and it threatened to rain as well. It didn't though. And it's just as well because if it had been raining I think it would have been much harder to get ourselves to go to Trivia. It's not that we didn't want to go, just that it would have been very easy to stay at home.

Even without An (who is still away in the Caravan with Syl) we were six tonight as Ca has not yet returned to Melbourne ... she's been sick so she rescheduled her flight. So, because of Ca, we correctly answered the question - in which Winter sport do competitors lie on their stomachs. St said if she was right with "Skeleton", he would put a $1000 on the table next week. Well, Ca was right but since St will be well on his way to France this time next week, we've suggested that perhaps Ni can bring it.

St and the grid

St was good tonight: he showed us his "memory" game - where he gets you to put the names of things into a twenty-cell grid, you read it out to him in whatever order you want, and he'll tell you what is where. It's a pretty good trick - because there is a "trick" to it - or actually a system - but it is good. He's shared it with us so we can practice at home before we take it out into the world.

Did I mention that we managed a first in trivia tonight? We scraped in by one point on 74; but not before we'd realised that one team (the declared winners at that point) couldn't possibly have scored 75. They were at the scorer's table at the same time as me to say the same thing, so we didn't have to argue the point (quite literally).

Just before we set out for Trivia, we received a call from M, currently in Lisbon. It was a short call as M was in transit, off the boat, and moving on to the next port of call (not literally of course).