Summertime

Recent days have been spent enjoying life around home. A little pool swimming, a 10k bike ride most days which usually takes us around the Bellvista Lake which is the centrepiece of this estate. From the lake the 'new' private school (a joint venture between Catholic and Anglican Churches - an interesting association) can be see with the new building dominating the skyline. The building is a covered assembly area and 'indoor' sports centre. You can see this to the left in the photo below.



I have been complaining about all the wet weather and cool summer we have been having. Saturday was the exception, a very hot day with westerly winds and as you can see from the photo on the left the temperature hovered around the 39 or 40 degree mark for much of the afternoon. The hottest day we have had since we came to live here. As you can see this is well over 100 degrees in the old temps! The air conditioner went on at about 11 am and stayed on all day till a cooler breeze came through at about dusk. I spent the day watching the cricket on TV from Hobart where the temp was about 15 all day! It was a bit too hot to go to Saturday's Computer Club

Sunday saw us head out for a bit of window shopping. I was after some shorts with an extra front pocket. Having a crook back (and some would say a fat wallet - all the credit cards!) I don't like to keep my wallet in my back pocket. When you sit down and sit 'on' the wallet it can cause your back to be thrown out. Therefore the wallet needs to carried in another pocket. It was end of season run out time for summer clothing in the shops so I was able to buy a couple of cheap pairs of shorts easily.

Today Monday is back to normal summer up here, overcast and rain developing! Still it will be 27 degrees or so so very comfortable.

As our estate is developed , new bike pathways become available for us to use. When we first came here there was no way you could ride 10 kms around the estate. Nowadays it is easy to do this length ride around here!

We watched the movie "Evening" the other day. It had Vanessa Redgrave and daughter as well as Meryl Streep and daughter acting in it. The movie was a little slow for Trish but I didn't mind it.

Thanks to people who dropped us a quick email with their news, it was great to hear from you! It looks like Trish and I will be able to catch up with a family from Malaysia who are making a brief visit to Melbourne for a week while we are down there next week.