A New Day, A New Brew!

What a difference a day makes!

Much of the last 24 hours has been spent recuperating!  Another 11 mls of rain overnight put a stop to any thought of bike riding this morning.  There was a quite a heavy shower outside when I checked the weather soon after 6am this morning.

Today is Trish's birthday and we won't go into what age she is but our financial arrangements take quite a turn in response to this birthday.  Trish is at her craft group Stitchers this morning and I recently had a call from her saying she and a couple of the ladies are heading out for a cheap lunch at the RSL to celebrate.

I did get another brew on this morning.  This one is also a 'gift' and is an Australian Black Ale.  Again it is one I have never tried so a new taste sensation is in store.

There was such a head on the brew after mixing and stirring this morning I ladled some of the froth off so I could get the lid closed!  It will be interesting to see how it goes.

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Our sun shelter in the backyard impressed our recent visitors.  Mick said on first look he thought it could get very hot under the tin roof.  He was pleasantly surprised at just how cool it was when sitting there.

As this photo shows there is a blind at the western end of the shelter to keep the hot afternoon sun at bay.

As you can see when it rains the water just runs off the roof and over the new blind leaving some marks.  These marks wash off fairly easily.  A guy came out today and quoted for a pelmet to cover the blind and I gave him the go ahead to get it done.

Hopefully the new pelmet will be up and providing protection for the blind in around a week.

I have another meeting this evening around 5pm.  It should be over by 7 as I am keen to back home and settle down and watch the cricket again from South Africa.

Friends from here where we live returned to South Africa to live a couple of years ago.  We both have installed "Whatsapp" on a phones and had a good old chat last evening.  They live around 80k's north of Cape Town where this Test Match is being played.  It was good.

Whatsapp let's you send a SMS type message via the internet from phone to phone..  It worked well.  This is no big deal here in Australia but when you begin to send SMS messages overseas it can be costly.  Via Whatsapp the cost is greatly reduced!