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Coast, October

Friday. Kit was desperate for some company with friends, so we headed down. Left around 18:00, getting Scottish Restaurant drive through for dinner on the way.

Otherwise a fairly uneventful drive and we even managed to find the driveway in the dark first go when we arrived at around 20:30.

We met Biscuit's seven new little crumbs (9 days old).

Chatted for a while, and not tooo late a night.

Saturday.

Who wouldn't want to wake up to this crap every morning? Literally the view out the bedroom window when I woke up.

Found myself some leftovers that I'd brought down for breakfast.

Then did all the animals. There's still Arthur and Frankie the cats, Vicki, Biscuit and her seven crumbs, and Jasper. Eight ducks (down from fourteen as she sold six of them that morning), about seven or eight guinea fowl, about thirty chickens and a couple of turkeys. Then Scout and Ricky the horses, Al and Kerry the alpacas, and I dunno like twenty or thirty sheep. And don't forget that little cow (bull) above. There were two. Now there's one. And a freezer full of the other.

Headed down to the beach, walking all the way along Kioloa and part way up Shelly Beach and back.

Picked up some pies on the way home for lunch. I started a jigsaw in the afternoon. We found some luv-a-duck in the fridge, so had that with some spring onion and cucumber in rice paper rolls (not as good as peking duck pancakes but who cares). Then chatted and went to bed at normal time.

Sunday. Did the animals first up. Then headed into Batemans Bay for brunch.

Eventually left a bit after twelve. Did some food shopping on the way home so didn't get home til after 15:00. Exhausted. And just in time to do my end of weekend routine.

Coasting Along

Saturday morning we packed up and joined the rest of Canberra in heading down the coast for the long weekend.

I started a jigsaw and other people just chilled and read and programmed etc.

For dinner we went to the Little Restaurant and Bar again for more delicious food. We couldn't get a seat inside because they were all booked out, but were able to book the outside bench. But that's cool, cause you know we're Canberrans and all and we're used to the cold.

Then spa til about 1am.

Sunday we'd been intending to go to the beach, but the sun never came out, so we didn't bother. Went for two separate walks to the shops (one to hack portals and another get some stuff to make pikelets (C had a craving)). In between I did jigsaw.

Dinner was pizza's from Stevo's (the Sandy Foot cafe had run out of dough! *gasp*). Oh my, Stevo's pizzas were insane! Huge, and *heaps* of cheese. Completely decadent and we mostly all stuffed ourselves silly. I had one and a half pieces and that was *plenty*! We ordered three large pizzas, but only ate two of them. Had a full pizza's worth leftover.

Then spa til after midnight.

This morning was just eating and packing up and cleaning, then came home.

Battled Sunday night depression, and then lost it when I dropped one of my corningware dishes onto the kitchen floor and it *smashed* :(:( But then watched a very moving docudrama on Hiroshima on Netflix. Did my washing, now time for bed.

How'd it get to be Tuesday already?

Thursday night: after Wednesday night's insomnia I got to sleep quite quickly. But then I woke up at around 3am on Friday morning and never got back to sleep. Actually I lie. I got up at 6:15 and made up a potato bake, and went back to bed while it cooked, and got about half an hour more sleep.

Friday: got home, spent three quarters of an hour packing the car up, then headed down the coast. Arrived a bit after eight, fired up the spa, then realised the Sandy Foot pizza place closes at 8pm :( So had potato bake for dinner. Then went in the spa and stayed up entirely too late.

Saturday: had a very slow start. We might have all been a bit seedy. Well ok not all of us. D and F were suitably restrained and were only a bit tired heh. I cooked some bacon and eggs for brunch, then we headed up to Myrtle Beach for a swim. The water was nice and it was all very pleasant until we all got a bit out of our depth and then struggled to get back. I managed ok, but I could see how easy it would be to panic. Stu and C got a lot more stuck but were ok in the end. Had some bubbly and some fruit on the beach, then had another quick dip before heading back.

Went into Bateman's Bay for dinner - to the Little Restaurant and Bar. We'd been there before, and the food was just as good this time. I had a very nice wagyu steak. Went for a bit of a walk to walk off dinner, but ended up getting some ice cream for dessert. Went in the spa again, but didn't stay up as late.

Little Restaurant and Bar flatbread

Little Restaurant and Bar sourdough

Little Restaurant and Bar wagyu steak

Bateman's Bay

Sunday: fairly early start. Headed out around 9:15 and headed down to Armand's Beach. But the weather closed in, so after a bit of a swim, we adjourned to shelter to have some bubbly and cheese (too cold for fruit). Headed back to the beach a bit later for another quick swim. Got some ice cream in Bermagui at the Gelati Clinic. Then headed back to the house. Chillaxed for a while, then ordered some pizzas for dinner. Then we danced for a while to C's music before getting in the spa. But after a long day we were pretty tired and were all in bed by 10pm. Silly really.

Monday: had a biggish breakfast of bacon, eggs, mushrooms and zucchini hash browns, then cleaned up the house then headed home. I got part way through unpacking and doing some washing, before heading up to Mount Rogers to kill a layered blue field (good for the step count though). Then a quiet evening just gathering ourselves.

Tuesday: back to reality. Downloaded all my photos, but haven't chosen any for the blog yet. This will probably get updated at some point in the future :)

Coast Weekend

Went to the coast on Friday night for the weekend.

Saturday was lovely. Walked (ran) the dog, did a jigsaw, went for a swim at Myrtle Beach (swimming in the ocean in late May - unheard of right??) and watched the moonrise.

As for the rest of the weekend, probably the less said about that the better.

Coast Weekend

Friday night after the party, we headed off down the coast.

I always love coming down this bit of road

This spider terrorised me in our bathroom. The next morning it ran up my arm. I screamed a bit.

Had a bit of a go in the spa Friday night, but was pretty tired after the party so didn't stay up late.

Saturday morning I started a jigsaw. Someone had mostly separated out the sections into baggies, so I emptied the baggies and sorted them one at a time. The pile at the left there is all the trees. The pile at the top is the lake. The pile at the front is all the edges. The stuff on the right is the "interesting" pieces - ones with bits of building etc in them. The one small thing missing? All the pieces for the castle!! Fail!! So had a look for the missing bag in the other boxes of jigsaws that came with this one, but it was nowhere to be found. So threw it out :(

Saturday afternoon went up to Myrtle Beach. It was pretty hot, although not sunny. But the water was a bit chilly. And it was the calmest I've ever seen the place.

Kangaroos on the road on the way back

Saturday night's dinner was three medium pizzas - a puttanesca, a big mama, and their meatlovers. There was basically one whole pizza leftover, which got eaten at breakfast and lunch the next day.

Aftermath

Finished the other jigsaw on Sunday morning.

Then packed up and came home.

Coast Weekend, July

Friday after work we headed down to the coast. We listened to a Harry Potter audiobook. Other than that, nothing eventful.

So arrived, and marvelled at the STARS!!

Then set about turning everything on. Except I couldn't turn on the gas. Knob was jammed. I was already hungry at this point, so was getting stressed and grumpy from low blood sugar level. Then we heard from Dave - he hadn't even left home yet! (people had bailed at work so he had to fill in for them). So we abandoned thought of using the spa that night, and went into Bateman's Bay to get some dinner.

We went to "Little Restaurant and Bar". With a super friendly waitress and chef. Lovely service.

Stu had a pork croquette dish off the specials board.

And I had lamb cutlets

For dessert Stu had banana and pecan nut pudding

And I had a Lindt Swiss chocolate slice

Accompanied by a nice pear cider.

All super delicious, a great find.

So we get back to the house and Dave had just arrived, to tell me I'd been doing it wrong, turns out there's knobs on each gas cylinder as well. That I couldn't actually see, from my angle, in the dark. Yeah so I felt completely useless. So had a breakdown and went to bed. As you do.

Saturday was just doing a jigsaw, a walk to the shops, crosswords, and that was about it for the day.

In the evening we cracked open the Heineken keg and ordered pizza (three smalls which got demolished in short order).

Warmed up the spa and enjoyed that for quite a while, getting through almost all of the keg between us. I was quite impressed with our effort heh.

This morning just more jigsaw, although I didn't finish it - sky is taking far too long.

Then we tidied the house and headed home, stopping at the Scottish Restaurant for lunch.

Did some fish tank stuff when I got home, as well as geotagging holiday photos and house tidying. So a productive afternoon/evening, but that didn't stop the Sunday night depression :(

Coast Weekend, November

Headed down to the coast for the weekend.

It was pretty much a case of the usual - eating junk food, eating pizza, drinking beer (and a sparkling shiraz), going to the shops for the paper, going to Myrtle Beach for a swim, jigsaw, wii, crosswords, kenkens, and of course, going in the spa :):)

Also had a play with the new Eee PC and got some stuff setup on it, including the GPS software so that made me happy.

On the walk to the shops, I took my new "random" camera to have a bit of a play with it. Generally I'm happy with it (especially for macros), however its noise reduction is very aggressive, to the point where it almost looks like one of those "paint" filters in Photoshop where big gloops of colour are the same and picture quality is lost.

(this one looks better at higher res - irfanview is pretty sucky at saving big blobs of red)

On our drive to Myrtle Beach we had to stop and wait for the bridge over the Clyde to open/shut. But we were so far back in the line of cars we didn't get to see it :(

A nice walk through the trees to the beach

We were actually worried that we were going to get rained/stormed on at the beach - this big storm was brewing to the west. However it moved to the north and the beach stayed in the sun.

These are some of the clouds on the way back.

After playing sports resort on the Wii if you just leave it it goes around the various sports locations and shows your Miis hanging out. Weird..

We had three small pizzas - a meat lover's, a ham and pineapple, and a putanesca for the sweetie

The jigsaw I did

A weird but kinda cute concrete chicken that's appeared in the house since last time.

Aftermath of our beers

Of course the suckiest part of going down the coast is having to clean the entire house before you leave. All my dreaded tasks (cleaning toilets, vaccuuming) and no way to escape. Especially when it's so humid. Blah. Jumped in the lukewarm spa at the end to recover.

Also the boys both had colds which means I'm pretty much screwed...

But otherwise, a lovely weekend.

Coast Weekend

So Dave had to do some urgent spa maintenance down at the coast, so asked if we wanted to go along. The cover of the spa had broken a couple of weeks ago, smashing a thermometer and leaving glass in the spa. Yay. So alas, spa use was out on Friday night.

The drive down was pretty cool. Gorgeous clouds and even a huge double rainbow.

Did a jigsaw on Friday night, another one of the mystery jigsaws with no picture on the box, and a puzzle to solve (which we failed at - the bomb would have gone off!)

Saturday morning had a nice sunrise.

Saw this interesting pigeon which we weren't 100% sure of identity.

Squirrel!

Went for a walk to get the papers, and took a heap of photos.

Vacuumed out the spa and found a chunk of glass from the thermometer. Hopefully we got it all.

Dinner was a delivery of pizza from the Sandy Foot. A small Zorba and a medium ham and pineapple. We finished them both.

Today we went to Bateman's Bay to get some tubing for the bath-tub spa, which was full of crud cause it doesn't get filtered. So got that and drained that spa out.

Were a bit later leaving that usual, because I wanted to finish this 1000-piece jigsaw of Neuschwantstein. So basically finished it, photographed it, then pulled it apart again. All those hours and hours effort and noone got to really enjoy it heh.

The drive up the Clyde was quite pretty cause the clouds were right down on the mountains.

And that was that.

Driving back gives you plenty of time to ponder life. I've decided I spend way too much time on the computer/internet just mucking around, and other things around the house and my hobbies just aren't getting done. So going to try a forced break from the computer for a while in the evenings to get stuff done. Will see how we go..

Coast Trip

Left fairly early on Saturday (9am) for the coast. It rained. It was rainy there. We saw the remains of one accident, Neil ended up being stuck behind a couple of accidents and some bicyclists so had a very long, slow run.

DC and I played some Wii Sports Resort. It's not too bad, I might get it. Maybe if I can get a good price on it in a couple of months ;)

When Neil arrived we did a 500-piece jigsaw of a fairy that he'd brought down. DC timed us, but we don't know if it was 1.5 hours or 2.5 hours. Shrug.

At beer o'clock DC and I played some Mario Kart and some olympics. We stopped when I kept winning :/ Started watching Young Frankenstein. It was .. ok.. heh. Paused in middle to cook and eat dinner (pasta and herb bread). Then jumped in the spa. It was too hot but cooled down after having the blowers on for a while. Went to bed around 12:15.

Sunday had a little bit of a sleep in. Played a few hours on the Wii. Started my "Fish and Chips" jigsaw with Neil before he went home. The day went very fast because of daylight savings.

At beer o'clock lost three games of pool to DC so played some Wii. Pizza for dinner. More Wii. Spa til 1am.

Monday was just doing more jigsaw and wiiing. The sun came out for a little while, and might almost have been worth going to the beach, except it clouded over and started raining again before we got around to it. Oh well.

Ever want to know where all the "i" info dots are on Wii Sports Resort? We found them all :)

Run home wasn't too bad. Lots of crazy clouds around from all the storm activity (which I'll post separately).

Wifi

Blogging from Batemans Bay Maccas for no other reason than because I can. Well sort of. It's so slow it's almost unusable.

Have had a rainy but quite relaxing weekend at the coast. On our way home now.

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