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The Merry Month Of March...
Apr. 6th, 2019 03:45 pmPart II... of sorts
So yes... we went on a South Pacific cruise, visited a couple of islands, along with a few thousand other people, saw some coral & turtles...
Came home in the rain & headed off to our respective jobs, with the resolve to try saving for an Alaskan cruise among the icebergs & glaciers in 2021. My job has been more of the same as usual, crisis management, disinterested self-interest from one staffmember (it sounds impossible, but that's what it is... you should see it), but busier than February, which had set everyone on edge as we wondered where all the clients had gone. L-SP's dayjob was more of the same... in fact the above description will do for hers as well, with an extra helping of useless idiocy thrown in. Both of us have also become involved with the local lawn bowls club, which has proven to be a hotbed of political intrigue, both personal & office-related. You wouldn't think a bunch of retired & semi-retired 60 to 80-odd year-olds would have the time, patience, or energy for that matter, but boy oh boy, do they ever!!. I've been roped in for various manual duties & the occasional last-resort bowler for teams who are a player short & must be absolutely desperate... I'm not much good!!
Last weekend, we headed out of town to Mudgee - a few hours north-west of Sydney & one of our favourite places in NSW... we had our brief honeymoon there, back in the day. But this time it was for a photography evening with the Canon Collective, shooting stars at a suitably out-of-the-way location near Lake Windamere. Incredibly, a few hours drive away from any large population centre (not Mudgee!!), there was still a glow on the horizon from city lights. opinion was divided as to whether Sydney or Newcastle was responsible, but despite that, the night was clear & the stars were out in their billions...
Thanks to the 3 Collective members, who were informative & helpful when all my camera would show was a dark screen with a couple of smudgy white dots. NOW I know how it's done!!
April... the end of Daylight Saving time, the arrival of Easter & ANZAC Day in the same week... & hopefully the start of some cooler weather - I spent yesterday lifting & toting timber in various sizes & weights on a couple of job sites & was a sweaty mess by the time I arrived at the Showroom in the afternoon, hoping for an earlymark to go home & shower, but ended up staying 'til after my usual quittin' time... business as usual then
Last night, my one & only guitar student & his ad-hoc band played at a school concert, where there seemed to be a LOT of aspiring players & singers of all ages & abilities. The standard was pretty good, once you remember the oldest was probably only 16 or 17. My protegé took lead guitar duties on a medley of Pink Floyd's Dogs & Sheep. Pretty ambitious for a 16yr old beginner, but he acquitted himself well, handling the solo nicely & only missing one chord in the coda. Could I have done any better at his age? Could I do any better now??!!
So yes... we went on a South Pacific cruise, visited a couple of islands, along with a few thousand other people, saw some coral & turtles...
Came home in the rain & headed off to our respective jobs, with the resolve to try saving for an Alaskan cruise among the icebergs & glaciers in 2021. My job has been more of the same as usual, crisis management, disinterested self-interest from one staffmember (it sounds impossible, but that's what it is... you should see it), but busier than February, which had set everyone on edge as we wondered where all the clients had gone. L-SP's dayjob was more of the same... in fact the above description will do for hers as well, with an extra helping of useless idiocy thrown in. Both of us have also become involved with the local lawn bowls club, which has proven to be a hotbed of political intrigue, both personal & office-related. You wouldn't think a bunch of retired & semi-retired 60 to 80-odd year-olds would have the time, patience, or energy for that matter, but boy oh boy, do they ever!!. I've been roped in for various manual duties & the occasional last-resort bowler for teams who are a player short & must be absolutely desperate... I'm not much good!!
Last weekend, we headed out of town to Mudgee - a few hours north-west of Sydney & one of our favourite places in NSW... we had our brief honeymoon there, back in the day. But this time it was for a photography evening with the Canon Collective, shooting stars at a suitably out-of-the-way location near Lake Windamere. Incredibly, a few hours drive away from any large population centre (not Mudgee!!), there was still a glow on the horizon from city lights. opinion was divided as to whether Sydney or Newcastle was responsible, but despite that, the night was clear & the stars were out in their billions...
Thanks to the 3 Collective members, who were informative & helpful when all my camera would show was a dark screen with a couple of smudgy white dots. NOW I know how it's done!!
April... the end of Daylight Saving time, the arrival of Easter & ANZAC Day in the same week... & hopefully the start of some cooler weather - I spent yesterday lifting & toting timber in various sizes & weights on a couple of job sites & was a sweaty mess by the time I arrived at the Showroom in the afternoon, hoping for an earlymark to go home & shower, but ended up staying 'til after my usual quittin' time... business as usual then
Last night, my one & only guitar student & his ad-hoc band played at a school concert, where there seemed to be a LOT of aspiring players & singers of all ages & abilities. The standard was pretty good, once you remember the oldest was probably only 16 or 17. My protegé took lead guitar duties on a medley of Pink Floyd's Dogs & Sheep. Pretty ambitious for a 16yr old beginner, but he acquitted himself well, handling the solo nicely & only missing one chord in the coda. Could I have done any better at his age? Could I do any better now??!!
