Hot & Steamy

Many of you will have already come across this on Facebook or the like.  But just in case you haven't!

The few degrees of wind direction turning a northerly into a north westerly has been back the last day or so.  I now leave the 'garden Vac/Blower' continually hooked up to the power outside and do a sweep every hour or so around the pool area to pick up leaves from next door's plants.  We got a northerly the other day and didn't get any dramas.  A few degrees of direction to the west and we get the hassle back again.

I am 'stuck' at home with deliveries from overseas due in the next day or so.  I got an "Out For Delivery" email this morning from DHL but I am not sure if it means it is on a truck coming to my place today or if a truck is heading to the Sunny Coast with the delivery on it ready for me to get tomorrow.

Trish's new phone is now listed as "In Transit" from Hong Kong.  But that message is now 3 or 4 days old and could arrive on the doorstep at any time.

Things are beginning to fall into place for our trip to Melbourne as far as accommodation is concerned.  We will prop at Newcastle for the Wednesday and Thursday of the journey down to Melbourne.  That makes Friday a huge day with around 950k's from Newcastle to Attwood (near Tullamarine Airport Melbourne) to do.

That will be the biggest day on the road for us for the whole time we are away.

We have booked accommodation in Glen Waverley for Christmas Eve and Christmas Night and set ourselves to catch up with friends on Boxing Day and then stay at Chris's that night. The last couple of nights we will spend with Eddie and Patsy Riordan.

Being a hot and steamy day today the pool will be a popular spot this afternoon.

Trish is out for much of the day, a meeting and then a Christmas get together will follow.

We were supposed to get storms last night but it seemed extremely heavy rain fell here for less than 10 minutes but that was enough to put 8mls in the rain gauge.