Monday.  28th.  Backdating.  No symptoms from my second Pfizer jab, other than a sore arm, which wasn't even as bad as the first time.  First day of "the mask" except I didn't actually leave the house.  A project forced the hand on a cleanup I'd been wanting to do in forever only I was hesitant to get approvals to do it - cause if it ain't broke don't fix it.  Except it was broked, so was going to have to do the cleanup which was a big win.  Finished all of my labelling by dinner time.  Same club leftovers as last night - empanadas, potato, salad.  Finished off day 21 labelling after dinner, then Alfred Hitchcock and first episode of Diagnosis (produced by someone who was actually a consultant on House!

Tuesday.  Did the cleaning I planned yesterday.  Took my lunch so I wouldn't need to go to the mall and wear a mask.  Had a big outage in the afternoon although luckily I wasn't affected so pretty much business as usual.  Leftover club potatoes (one tray thinly sliced, one try a bit smashed, then baked - the smashed ones needed to be more smashed) and wings for dinner.  Labelled 220 photos after dinner.

Wednesday.  Woke up at 1:47 and didn't get back to sleep til well after 5am, stressing about All The Things.  I might have actually gone back to bed, except I had a dentist appointment in the morning - first in two years since I didn't go last year because of covid.  This was the first time of wearing a mask indoors.  Except I'd just been out in the freezing cold air, and as soon as I went inside the mask made my glasses fog up instantly.  I hadn't been to the dentist in their new location, and so I was trying to figure out where to go but I literally couldn't see.  No wonder people don't like wearing masks.  Zombie day.  Took my lunch again so I wouldn't have to go to the mall.  Did some bits and pieces of work but not terribly efficient.  Late home.  Even had a beer, tv dinners, and watched Fantasia 2000.

Thursday.  Woke up at 2:20 and didn't get back to sleep til nearly 5am.  Sigh.  Although strangely didn't feel as much of a zombie as yesterday.  Wearing the mask and having it fog up my glasses the whole time got pretty old pretty quickly.  First time at the mall, and (almost) everyone wearing masks.  Such a strange sight to see in Canberra!  There were police patrolling too, although they didn't pull up the one guy we saw not wearing his mask properly.  But also school holidays which made the mall all kinds of horrendous.  Neil bought a pack of ten reusable masks, so I bought a couple off him.  Pretty quiet drinks, then pizza, Simpsons, X Files, and the start of Fantasia.

Friday.  Woke up at 12:40 and didn't get back to sleep til around 3am.  Epic sigh.  During that time I felt like I was getting a bit of a cough and sniffle.  Started to work from home in the morning, but definitely sick, so gave up and went back to bed.  Spent most of the day in bed.  Not a single minute of sleep though.  Like I've missed about seven hours of sleep during the week and I was sick, you'd think I'd be able to sleep.  Nope.  My body simply refuses to sleep.  So fricken annoying.  Loaded potatoes with mince, parsley, cabbage, cream and sour cream for dinner then just watched crap on the internet.  Stu also started getting sick in the afternoon.  Most likely we both picked it up at the club on the weekend.  Hurrah. 

Saturday.  Took forever to get to sleep - couldn't breathe and restless.  But then did sleep okish after that til after 7am.  Stayed in bed all morning (aside from getting up for breakfast, and later cheesy hash browns with club potatoes for brunch).  Not sleeping of course. 

Spent the afternoon just watching stuff on the internet (a fair bit from Oversimplified), and puttering through rss feeds. 

Performed surgery on one of the masks I bought off Neil - simply threaded a paper clip through the top of it to make a nose bridge, to see if it'll make any difference to my glasses fogging up.

Tried to make NQN's accordion potatoes for dinner, but I think they really need to be raw first so they didn't really work.  Simpsons/X Files/stuff on internet in the evening.

Sunday.  Another very slow day, mostly just watching crap on the internet.  Cooked roast pork for dinner, although pretty fail on the crackling - possibly because I was using the deeper dish, so not as much air flow.  Also some mince to use with whatever, and lots of veggies.  Early night (didn't process photos or blog though).

Monday.  21st.  Accidentally slept in til my alarm because when I woke up earlier I thought it was 5:08 not 6:08 because my glasses were blocking the clock.  Had an ok day.  Fought with Powershell and XML.  Put on beef brisket at lunch time.  Labelled 166 photos before dinner and another 60 after dinner and cleaning up the kitchen.  Then watched the second episode of Netflix's Pandemic documentary (I think I watched the first one Sunday night).  It was filmed in 2019 and released in January 2020.  Which makes the timing of it especially eerie.  But omfg I can't stand anti-vaxxers.  They're fricken dangerous.

Tuesday.  Trying to concentrate on one thing, only to be hit with another big important thing, (it never rains but it pours) then had to go to a BS meeting in the middle of it all which was the biggest waste of my time ever.  Third episode of Pandemic in the evening.  Yesterday I'd had pain in my hamstrings, I'm guessing from all the weeding I did on the weekend, but Tuesday night my neck hurt if I turned my head side to side.  Very strange.

Wednesday.  Neck still hurt.  Mostly worked on the two big projects that needed rules.  Then the same firewall that caused me so much grief last year stitched me up again.  Sigh.  But did get caught up with photo labelling.

Thursday.  Woke up at dentist time but didn't get back to sleep til after 4 :( Neck slightly better.  But omfg all the stoopid.  All the firewalls being stoopid and people being stoopid made me lose it.  But there was cheesy garlic Subway for lunch and drinks.  Finished up season 11 of The Simpsons.  X Files, and 5th episode of Pandemic.

Friday.  Neck slightly better.  Busy day trying to get *one thing* done in between interruptions and questions and people wanting stuff. Lunch was pesto pasta I made (using jar pesto).

It rained a few times in the afternoon.  At 4pm this was the light level in my study..

Finally got it done a bit after 5pm and tested it and it worked!  Into season 12 of The Simpsons, then X Files.  Then I watched Black Swan, which was pretty intense.  I think I'd lose if I didn't know what was real...

Saturday.  Did some washing but really nothing much all day :(  Headed out to the club in the afternoon for a winter solstice carnivale.  The brief was "colourful dressups", and, being winter solstice, I figured I could do Elsa again and get another wear out of the dress ;)  (and finally got to use the hair pins that hadn't turned up in time last time).  Numbers were down because of all the cancellations because of Covid.

Lots of food..

I had a relatively early night (maybe 10:30), but I couldn't get to sleep for hours.  Felt too cold which probably didn't help.  I lit the fire when I woke up after 7, but didn't get much more sleep.  Got up and cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast, then went back to bed to try and get some more sleep.  Think I got a smidgen.  So didn't end up getting up til after 10:30 :(  Went up to see if anything needed cleaning, but it had all been done, so just took away heaps of the leftovers.  With assurances from people that the rest would get taken (last month I didn't take it all, but noone else took any, so a whole bunch of food ended up getting thrown out :( ).  We put orders in online for Chemist Warehouse, but they still weren't ready by the time we got home.  It was at least an hour and a half after putting the order in that we got smses.  Hopeless.  Headed out again (via the chemist) to Garran so I could get my second Pfizer jab!!!

They were a lot better organised (and had more staff on) so I was in and out in twenty minutes (five minutes signing in and answering questions and fifteen minutes after to make sure I didn't keel over).  Had leftover club empanadas and potatoes and salad for dinner. 

Watched the last episode of the Surgeon's Cut which I realised I hadn't seen, The Simpsons and the X Files with the sweetie, then the final episode of Pandemic: How to prevent an outbreak.  Which really didn't have a whole lot on actually how to prevent an outbreak, only that we're underprepared if there is one.  Covid-19 anyone?

And download and processed my photos from the week, and blogged.  Last week my phone wasn't taking photos sometimes.  This week I found it took like five in a burst a couple of times.  Fricken hopeless Apple. 

So far no symptoms from my jab, although I did warn people I may not be in tomorrow...

Monday. 14th.  Here's a photo of the cauliflower and mushroom bake I did that night.

Tuesday.  15th.  After a long weekend Tuesday felt like a Monday.  Got to do some cleaning in the afternoon.  In the evening I passed the halfway mark of my Eurasia photo labelling!   

Wednesday.  Finally finished the doco I wanted to have done by the end of last week.  Finished labelling day 19 of Eurasia photos.  Just over a third of the way through the holiday, but half way through the number of photos.  Started watching The Social Dilema.  Interesting and somewhat depressing.  

Thursday.  Garlic subs are back!

Finished The Social Dilema.  

Friday. Super busy afternoon cleaning.  Simpsons and X-Files with the sweetie, then I had a look through Disney+ for something to watch.  Happened across a Pixar movie I hadn't heard of, so thought "that'll do".  I didn't see any pictures, and all I saw in the review was "coming of age" film in Italy.  The film was "Luca" and it was lovely, and it had literally been released *that day* !  So that was pretty cool.

Saturday.  Day of doing all the things at home.  We did go out at lunch and did our food shopping at the markets.  Made crumbed basa for dinner, which I'll put in another post.  It was good but I put in too much lemon juice so it didn't really crisp up.  First thing in the morning they had the Batman soundtrack on the radio, so I thought was should watch Batman in the evening, so we did!

Sunday.  Spent most of the day choosing and processing photos for my This Day in History posts, which are getting further and further behind (I keep finding photos of Dad's to use and the perfectionist in me wants to use those but I haven't finished processing them yet.. hrmmm).  Still didn't get it all done though.  Immy came over for an hour in the afternoon to play with Stumpy.

Then I got stuck into prepping dinner - the second recipe out of my Women's Weekly Gratins and Bakes book.  I'll post that in its own post too.  But by the time I was done with dinner it was 17:45 and I still hadn't downloaded and processed my photos for the week, so it all just got too hard.

Backdating this entry by a week...

So this year's Classic 100 was "Music You Can't Live Without". 

Which was surprisingly tough to narrow down to ten choices!  There's so much good stuff.  John Williams doesn't help of course, taking up like half of it, leaving me very few other choices.  In the end I went with John Williams for Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, James Horner's Titanic, Saint Saens' Organ Symphony, the Hallelujah Chorus and Beethoven's 9th. 

But what to pick for the last two.  More John Williams?  Some Hans Zimmer?  Beethoven's 5th? Zadok the Priest? Prince of Denmark? Finlandia? The Planets? Pomp and Circumstance? Rhapsody in Blue? Wedding Day at Troldhaugen?  (And plenty more I thought of in the days after I voted).  I even went down a rabbit hole of Bolero, watching Torvill and Dean's routine at the 1984 Winter Olympics, something I probably haven't actually even seen since 1984!  

In the end I put in Beethoven's 5th and Finlandia (the latter at Stu's suggestion).

So yesterday and today it was all on.  We did have to go out yesterday morning so missed Pomp and Circumstance and Schindler's List (heard a bit of that in the car).  Zadok the Priest was 54, Bolero was 34, the 1812 Overture was 42.

This morning between 7 and 9am they were clearly playing stuff that didn't quite make the top 100 - things like Ave Maria, Jurassic Park, Zorba the Greek, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen.  

Then into it all day today.  Finlandia was 40, Beethoven's 5th was 39 and Star Wars (just the main titles) was 37.  Rhapsody in Blue was 29, then Saint Saens was at 20, unfortuantely we had Stu and Immy over so I couldn't crank it.  Jupiter was 12, the Hallelujah Chorus was 6 and Beethoven's 9th was number 2.

So there you go.  Six of my things got up, with one in the reserve list.  It was certainly distracting too, I really didn't get much done this weekend!

Monday.  End of the weekend.  Cooked all the veggies for dinner.  Potato and sweet potato, tomato with buffalo mozarella I got for 80% off, brocollini and facon, cauliflower with paprika, and capsicum and zucchini.  And a bit of lamb I dug out of the freezer.

Tuesday.  We're into season 11 of The Simpsons.  Then photo labelling and the first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (I'm sure we used to watch this a bit when we were young).  

Wednesday.  Finally got caught up with my photo labelling, into Egypt this week.  More Alfred Hitchcock.

Thursday.  OMFG why is every interaction I have with the government so damned painful?!?!?  So it was announced on the news Thursday morning that 40-49 year olds are now eligible for Pfizer - win!!  So I logged on to book an appointment, except you need to create a myDHR account.  Sigh.  Don't they have some sort of centralised system attached to Medicare for all this crap?  So I went through the process of registering an account, except it died half way through with this error:

So I'm like.. did it go through or not??  (my tweet about it *still* hasn't been answered!!!)  Fricken hopeless.  So started all over again, and this time it went through.  Except then you have to wait up to 24 hours for them to confirm your eligibility before you can book an appointment.  Sigh.  In the end it probably only took an hour or so for them to get back to me, so booked an appointment for Sunday afternoon.

My Aunty Rhonda sent me this work of art this week, made by an aquaintance of hers.  It's a journal, but it's more like an adventure, with little pockets and fun little bits and pieces all through it.  Not quite sure what I'll do with it, but it sure is pretty!!

Friday.  Finished watching tv with the sweetie over dinner just after 6pm, so watched The Wolf of Wall Street.. which was very.. long..  I didn't realise it was based on a true story (what I get for not ever reading up on movies before I see them).

Saturday.  Took *forever* to get to sleep - my feet were freezing.  Woke up early though, tried to get back to sleep, ended up getting a bit more, slept til nearly 8am.  Bit of a slow start, and in the end pretty much all I did was play with my USA 2000 photo gallery.  The sweetie cooked dinner of chilli mince.  Then we watched a few hours of Gettysburg.

Sunday.  Took *forever* to get to sleep - this time I was too hot.  I think I'm dying. 

Made pancakes for lunch.

After cleaning the kitchen in the morning I just worked on my USA 2000 photo gallery.  In fact I got it to a point where you can have a look if you like.  I've still got some work to create the location index pages, and I need to setup a footer with contact deets and links back to my blog.  But if I die now, at least one of my holiday photo galleries will be online.  Saw my birds in the afternoon, then did a bunch of fish tank water changes.  Then I went and got my first dose of Pfizer vaccine!!!  I arrived about 17:15 for a 17:30 appointment.  Gave them my deets then waited.  And waited and waited and waited.  They didn't call me up to go in until 17:50, and then I had to wait while the single nurse there attended to the other person that came in at the same time as me.  It was 18:00 before I finally got my jab.  While I was waiting to make sure I didn't keel over, another person that came in was being seen at 18:05 - for an 18:15 appointment!!  No fair, how come I had to wait thirty five minutes, and he got in early???  Sigh. 

Got Kingsley's on the way home for dinner.  I'll probably wake up in the middle of the night hungry.  CSS is evil.  Or more precisely, how different browsers deal with it is infurating.  More Alfred Hitchcock while I downloaded and processed phone photos and blogged.

Now for the fun part.. waiting to see what side effects I get from the vaccine.. :)

Monday.  24th.  Not backdating ;)  Slept ok I think.  Had an ok day.  Updated our network diagram because it was WRONG, and we can't have that!  (discovered while trying to fix some monitoring dashboards).  Got 174 photos labelled before dinner and another hundred after dinner - past 10000!!!  Also downloaded and processed my phone photos from last week but didn't have time/energy to blog.

Tuesday.  Couldn't get to sleep for *ages* stressing about All The Things.  Had a big lunch (oops - people kept telling me to eat their chips! .. and I'm a seagull.. soo..)  Connor helped me take home three pallets from downstairs - just so that I can store some boxes in the garage without worrying about them getting water damaged for the once every year or two flood that we get through the garage.  

Wednesday.  Woke up at 5:30 from a dream where the sweetie had died during brain surgery.  I was so upset I couldn't get back to sleep.  Spent hours and hours during the day in meetings. Fun. Not.  Super late home but still managed to label all Dad's day 16 photos (nearly two hundred of them), even while watching Aircrash Confidential (watched all six episodes on 9Now this week).  Only a hundred behind in the photo labelling now, should be able to catch those up on the weekend.

Thursday.  More meetings.  Neil's beer(s) of the week this week were two from Moondog - the white chocolate white ale I first tried at Herbert's the other week, and a chilli vanilla stout (which didn't taste like chilli or vanilla or stout!).  

Friday.  Hurrah for working from home!!  Did a bit of cleaning, pretty quiet day.  Watched Gallipoli in the evening - forty years old this year and yet I've never actually seen it.  Hurrah for peeps uploading stuff to Youtube!

Saturday.  Had a pretty relaxing day.  ie, got practically nothing done around the house/computer.  Stu had a migraine in the morning so it was a pretty quiet day all round.  Headed out to the club in the afternoon and lit the fire and it was all very cosy, then we headed up for the evening's events - an Italian themed night.  All the food!

Sunday was pretty much just *work*, almost no fun.  Feel like I'm drowing in housework.  Did a couple of loads of washing, fish tank stuff, clothes sorting and a bunch of blogging.  Started watching the remake of Rebecca in the afternoon (I saw the Alfred Hitchcock version on the plane from New York to Singapore in early 2019).  Watched Lucy with the sweetie in the evening.

Today was much of the same.  All these boxes had been up in my "hobby" room until Stu converted it into his man cave, so they got moved downstairs, but it blocked up the whole dungeon room so we couldn't move in there, so now I had those pallets I could move them onto them in the garage.

Other than that just food shopping, all the work, caught up with photo labelling (finished day 16, into day 17), cooking an epic dinner of almost all veggies (ok so also a bit of leftover lamb i pulled out of the freezer) and some tv with the sweetie.  Finished up watching Rebecca in the evening.  Not entirely sure if I liked it or not.  It had more modern "values" but they could have written Maxim a bit better, altho apparently it did have Daphne du Maurier's ending not Alfred Hitchcock's censored version (I can't remember the book it was like thirty years ago).  

On the weekend of the 26-27 May 2001 the parents and I repainted the second bedroom of my flat.  It went from an actually pretty but very bright blue to boring off white.

Mum also took photos of the exterior, and with my bed made up in it

Friday 21st.  Backdating this.

Finished up work a bit early then got packed to head down the coast.  Took me an hour and a half to get organised.  hrmmm.

The sweetie was feeling super tired so I drove.  I felt pretty tense whenever anyone was behind me, because I wanted to take things a little slow on account of kangaroos, but also didn't want to be holding up traffic.  So went quite slow whenever there was an overtaking lane so people could pass me.  

Arrived at Kit and Pete's a bit before 20:30 and had a couple of drinks then went to bed.

Slept ok I think.  In the morning went and saw all the animals.  When I went outside the turkeys and guinea fowl all came over to see if I had food, but wandered off again when they realised I didn't.

Kit fed all the birds first.

Watched by an eastern yellow robin (raw pixels from phone)

The geese have gone - Solomon got eaten by a fox so Kit sold the two girls.  The goats have also moved on because they annoyed Kit too much.

Then down to the horses.  This is Scout, her newest horse.

Then to the sheep.

These are some of the new sheep

This lamb was born just after we were down there last time

More of the lambs - so cute!!

Then continued our wander.  How spectacular is their turpentine tree!

Over to the very dewey powerline paddock (my feet got very wet) to see the neighbour's horses.

How freaky are Rocket's eyes?

Then some brunch (good thing I had a light breakfast a couple of hours ago ;) )

Then Kit did a bunch of work with Scout while I supervised and played with Elle and Ziggy.

For lunch we headed up to Mollymook and met up with Chloe and had lunch at the golf club, which has a lovely outlook over the beach.

There was some very nice cheesy garlic bread

Kit was interested in the ribs for lunch, so I asked if she wanted to split it.  Turns out that was quite a sensible idea, as we ended up full enough without being stuffed silly.

After lunch we went for a bit of a wander

Then headed back to Kit and Pete's and hung out for a bit.

Then Pete lit a fire and we had snackages and roasted some marshmallows and had a bbq for dinner and a pretty chillaxed night.

There was even cheesecake for Kit's birthday

Kit blowing out the candles with her hand - very Covid safe ;)

Went to bed around midnight, but then woke up at 5:30 and couldn't get back to sleep for ages.  So a pretty slow start.

The turkeys and guinea fowl came over again when I went out.

Did all the animals stuff, then Kit cooked up an epic breakfast of buns, eggs, bacon, garlic mushrooms and hashbrowns.

Then we all wandered off.  Went into Batemans Bay to go over the new bridge and see if we could get a last look at the old bridge (didn't get a good view because they've only got the western half of the new bridge open at the moment).  We got home mid afternoon but didn't get much done and I was pretty tired.  I did cook up a cauliflower bake, potatoes, and broccolini with facon, so a relatively healthy dinner.  

Last weekend we had a five day long weekend and went to Bathurst, Lithgow, Newnes, Glen Davis, Gulgong and Dubbo.  When I've chosen some photos I'll get it up on the holiday blog.  We arrived home Tuesday afternoon maybe a bit before 4pm.  The neighbourhood dogs were yapping.. non stop.. til well after 6pm :(  Very upsetting.  Spent quite a while downloading and processing photos from the trip.  At 5pm I went to cook dinner, but by the time we'd eaten and cleaned up it was after 7pm :(  I put on Sunday's Lego Masters and started writing up the holiday blog entry text.

Wednesday.  Slept fairly well.  Didn't try to do any slide scan fixing, just too stressful, so just finished writing up the holiday blog text, finished unpacking, and tidied the house.  Felt a whole lot more in control.  At lunch I had another look in Kmart for jeans.  They had a whole new stock, and actually managed to find some that sort of fitted.  Apparently the fashion trend at the moment is for "high rise" or "extra high rise" which is utterly ridiculous.  So found some that were "mid rise" which are still a lot higher than they should be but look only somewhat ridiculous.  They have pockets that will hold my phone, but only just, and if I don't get it jammed all the way in it's likely to fall out.  Sigh.  In the evening I didn't try and do any photo labelling - just caught up on blogging from two weeks ago while watching Monday's Lego Masters.  Was hoping to have last week's blogging done too but that was not to be.

Thursday.  Caught up on last week's blogging in the morning.  Going into the office is pretty miserable at the moment.  Another team have decided to move themselves into our area, but they're super noisy (Thursday they talked literally non stop about mostly non-work stuff for the first full half hour I was in), and they're always in meetings, which means I'm in their meetings, which makes me *super* uncomfortable.  *Hating* going into the office at the moment.  Drinks was good though, and we made more Mexican pizzas for dinner.

Friday.  The sweet relief of not having to *go* to work.  My mornings are so much more relaxed, and I had time to put on my washing and hang it out and do some slide fixing before work.  Did a heap more cleaning in the afternoon.  In the evening Stu put on a new anime series - A Place Further than the Universe - which was a bit silly but ok.  

Saturday.  May Day.  How'd we get to be a third of the way through the year already?  A day of All The Things. 

We ordered a frame online for my paint by numbers.  It was all quite nice except they'd mounted the mounting bracket off-centre.  Idiots.  So it doesn't hang straight, I'll probably need to get some rubber feet or something to stop it moving.

I also dismantled the Titanic model, and got to look at the innards that David mostly did. 

I pulled it apart in sections to make it easier to do next time.  There was no way it was all going back in the box though!

Late in the afternoon I'd had enough so put on Playing Beatie Bow, which I saw a long long long time ago (we read the book in school), which someone had put on YouTube. 

In the evening we went over to Rob and Fiona's for Rob's 51st (we couldn't do a 50th last year because covid).  A lovely evening but a couple of hours past my bed time..

Good Friday.  Still wasn't really sure if I had a sore throat or not, but warned Mum anyway just in case.  Spent the morning tidying up the house.  Mum arrived just in time for lunch (of hot cross buns and leftover chicken and plum sauce). 

She made good use of the shelves I got for David :)

Spent most of the afternoon going through about fifty boxes of Dad's slides so she could fill in any details and memories.  Mum brought down Five Crowns card game, so we had a game of that.  I started off well, but Stu won.  Had salmon and salad for dinner.  After dinner we went for a drive around Canberra to show Mum some stuffs, and then we went up Mt Ainslie to have a bit of a looksee.

I also might have taken some photos of stars

Saturday morning we got ready then Mum and I headed north to go west.  We stopped in Jugiong for a pitstop and thought we'd go for a walk down to the river.  There was heaps of campers and horse floats about, as it turned out there was a Polo Cross tournament that weekend!  We went down to the river, and watched some of the guys practising.

On the way back to the car I found a wallet just sitting on the ground.  There was a medicare card, but no licence that I could see.  Not that we looked very hard, we felt a bit odd going through someone's wallet.  We did find one slip of paper with some possible phone numbers on it, but none of them worked.  Maybe there was some contact info in there somewhere, but it certainly wasn't obvious.  Pro tip: always leave an easy to find contact information card in your wallet in the case of loss!!  I asked some of the people camping nearby if they knew the people, but they didn't, but did agree to hold onto it for us and sort it out, since they were planning on being there all weekend.  The lady tried messaging them on Facebook, but they didn't answer while we were there.  Anyways, she called me back later in the afternoon to let me know that their daughter had heard someone asking about the wallet, so it was returned to the owners!

We drove past Stu's dream home in the country

We stopped in Cootamundra to have a wander around the station and look at the rail yards.

Then onto Junee in time for lunch - of noodles :)  Had a look through David's photos of the RAAF Air Show (just some random selections throughout the five thousand or so of them that he took ;) ).  David was supposed to have a sleep and Mum thought she would too, so I went and found a jigsaw to do.  But it was more like a model made of cardboard - of the Titanic!  So David stayed up and we did it together.  Took a couple of hours.  And Mum ended up coming out but having a bit of a snooze on the lounge.  

Then we helped David do some DVD sorting.  Then we got ready and walked down to the Junee Hotel for dinner.  Mum and I split a "rump and ribs" which was very sensible - just the right amount of food, and the ribs were lovely!

Went back to David's and watched most of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, followed by the new Storm Boy in an attempt to stay up a bit later to try and sleep in a bit with the end of daylight savings.  I enjoyed the remake, as I seem to remember the original being fairly slow and bleak.  

Sunday.  Slept quite well, and because of the late night I slept in a bit - which meant I woke up exactly on time for my normal routine :)  The problem was David was at work and didn't know what time he'd be home, so we just hung around the house bored.  I did a few logic puzzles which was a good distraction.  He ended up getting home at nearly lunch time, by which time was a bit frustrated that I hadn't achieved anything useful all day.  David organised (in the space of ten minutes!!) for a bunch of peeps to meet up at the Junee Hotel for lunch for roast lamb - Peter, Nick, Ben, and Ben's sister and kids who were down visiting. 

So quite a nice lunch.  But it was pretty big, and we didn't finish eating til nearly 2pm, so decided I'd call off doing the lamb roast I'd planned for Sunday night.  After lunch Mum and I headed back to Canberra. 

Didn't get home til about 17:40.  And not at all hungry.  Put on a documentary about Machu Picchu, then had a game of Five Crowns, which I won, over pepperoni and cheese that I had for dinner.

Kings were wild this hand, and look what I got dealt!

Monday.  Slept well, and woke up exactly on time for the new time.  Mum got ready and went home.  I tried to catch up on everything I'm behind in.  I failed.  Abysmally.  Stu wanted to go out at lunch to see the new works they're doing at Lake Burley Griffin.  I just have this feeling like they're further ruining the circular shape of the area that was in the original design...   Still, it was a lovely day and nice spending time with the sweetie.

Came home and put on some Asian Style Beef Cheeks, and watched some tv in the evening.