Saturday 24 August 2013 – Happy Birthday Lis!

Well another big day at the office!  Up at about 8, did the usual stuff before leaving a bit after 9.30 and walked to Torquay where they had a bit of a market on the foreshore.  It was a beautiful morning (today has been 26 degrees), and today we stuck to the pathway that winds along between the Esplanade and the foreshore.  As we wandered along there I was almost tempted to do my morning drill on the exercise machines that are along the way, but I didn’t want to show up the try-hards who were already occupying some of the machines.

The market was quite a small one, and a few stalls had some bits and pieces that were different or interesting, but we came away only having bought some honeyed macadamias and some chilli macadamias, and with a sample sachet of ‘Mims Magic’ – a cure-all lotion that helps with arthritis pain, cracked skin, sprains, insect bites, cold sores (just to name a few things it helps) – handed to me by a stallholder who obviously had noticed my arthritic gait.  I tried it out this afternoon, and it seemed to help my knees, so I’ll get some when we next go to the market.  On the way back to the park we had an ice-cream from a speciality ice-cream shop which had far too many flavours, making deciding difficult, but we were both happy with our choices.

Back at camp, settled down with a cuppa, we had a chat with the neighbours behind us who are from Whakatane in NZ and come over here every year from May to the end of September to get away from the cold.  They fly to Brisbane, then hire a car and caravan, and amble around the coastal places stopping wherever they decide to spend a few days (or weeks).

At about 1.30 we had just finished lunch when we had a visit from my cousin Adrian and his wife Linda, so we sat out in the sun and solved the problems of the world over a cuppa for about an hour and a half.  And during the afternoon we had various of our neighbours stopping for a yarn, including Colin who brought us a map showing where to find a caravan park they suggested we stay at on our way home.

Oh! Before we left on our walk this morning we booked a day visit to Fraser Island for next Wednesday, so that should be good.

At the moment (almost 5pm) the wireless is on, but all you can get here is rugby, though they kindly share AFL scores very occasionally.  I keep check of them though on the internet, and so far I’ve picked 2 out of 3 winners, and Grant has a perfect score.  Melbourne let me down this afternoon!

Well it is now almost 10 o’clock and I delayed posting this blog entry in case we won Tattslotto, but as we didn’t, that’s about the news for today.