Ain't No Sunshine!

The last couple of days have been cloudy, gray and quite cool. We have had no rain yet but the temperature has struggled to get to the high teens. Maroochydore had a 16 as a max one day. The last two days have seen the temperature get to about 18. However if the sun were to break through, the temperature would quickly go up several degrees. We are expecting some light rain overnight.

Trish flew back home again on Tuesday in quite reasonable condition after baby sitting two x under 5 yo's. She had visits from friends while down there, (she couldn't go out herself) and it seems they were very enjoyable evenings.

Since returning home it is 'back to usual' for her with Stitchers on Wednesday, Trivia Thursday night and Quilters this morning. We had a quick trip to the shops Wednesday afternoon.

I have been riding a little later recently doing between 12k's and 15k's most days. I meet up with more people at this time of the day and spend some time having a chat. This morning I didn't get back to the house till after 10 am but then gave the front lawn a quick mow and tidy up. The grass wasn't that long, it just looked untidy!

We are both off to the Bellvista Home Brew Appreciation Society meeting this afternoon. It is good to catch up, have a few drinks and see everyone.

We saw a show on TV about how much power is used when electrical items are left on stand-by. They say there are some good savings to be made by actually switching things off at the wall. I set up the main entertainment electrical equipment recently with a power board but with individual switches.

I have now done the same thing with the Computer room. There are a lot of things to plug in for power attached to the computer: speakers, PC, monitor, printer, a lamp, the modem/router, the cordless phone system, and each external hard disk drive (three of them) have their own power plugs. The plugs look a bit messy but I can now turn everything right off!