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I visited the scout hall on Venturer scout night tonight to invest some Joey and Venturer scouts and stayed on to find that I'd been left with them (11 mixed) while all other leaders had a meeting to discuss the Jamboree in Mayborough! They made cupcakes and other
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One of my favoured paddle trips with Probus kayakers. It was choppy and we experienced a bit of sea kayaking with two capsizes-one in the bay and another near a bridge with fast running tide going through it. The pic is exiting the creek at the end of the
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Our annual event -attracted 22 people on two tables this year, with lively bilingual conversations. Mary's galette shown.
Family
We visited Jacqui and family for this . I managed 2 pics from the tv of midnight fireworks and one shows a new spectacular colour arrangement they can achieve, the next the Harbour Bridge coming alight
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Mary progressing well now, back gardening in small doses and joined her choir for their recent concert performance. I continue to kayak most Fridays but don't blog them all as it gets repetitive. The garden benefits from the La Nina rain and here's some bright colours
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A few flower pics of this season.
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The family all came over for lunch We found an opportunity to join all the daughters on the lawn
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We enjoyed a thoroughly entertaining trivia night at St Phils last week. 14 tables of about 10 each . It was so well contrived and managed and included food and drinks (softy of course!) Our table were at the top end of the results but beaten by tables with a few
Bushwalking
We walked 10.4Kms, not quite as as far as the lighthouse. Very cold early morning but 20deg C by noon. All the walkers are also Friday kayakers and some also cycle. Mary enjoyed it too and her dodgy hip behaved itself! In the photo we are whale watching --we
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"Visitors warned that some works may be confronting" So read the sign at entry to a display of "Subconciousness in an exhibition of 'women, feminism and surrealism artworks' I left out the most 'challenging' ones out of respect for your sensibilities! It was
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Because we stayed at nearby Cockcatoo Island, we had time to see a lot more and in a relaxed way. The Botanic gardens were good. Historic Cadman Cottage has a quirky comic strip, as it did last year. The evening ended with a massed drone dsiplay over the water, with
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We spent two nights on this island (reported on a first visit with Probus visit a few months ago) , in order to see the annual Vivid light display in Sydney. We had an apartment (converted very nicely from officers quarters in WWII) with a view over the harbour and bridge.