Whilst the cats are away...

Whilst the cats’ where away the mouse did… not very much indeed.

There was plenty of music and shape throwing with Bruce but apart from that and walking on the beach there was not much to report.

I was very kindly invited to the neighbours for a couple of drinks the day after my birthday, which I have titled 'Australian birthday'. Whilst there we had much wine drinking and good conversation, they also BBQ’d some burgers, they were massive! I have always wanted a BBQ for my birthday so that was awesome. I managed to out-men the men by having two, they were simultaneously impressed and scared.

 

I also went for a walk on the beach, a few times. Again trying to avoid the ass-splash from being a repeat, I think I achieved just that and I also had a mid-waist dip, no hair wetting on this occasion. I did see a purple shell and think it was beautifully colourful and was slightly amazed, only then to realise there were quite a lot of them…

 

There were a lot of escaped chicken incidents! The chickens were organised. Chilling by the side doors like “sup ginga?”.

The worst incident was when I was hanging washing up and came across this rather vibrant spider, red and white striped and not one I knew about. I took some pictures and started scanning the internet, as well as seeing if anyone I knew in Australia could answer my “is this poisonous” question. With no immediate response and no desire to kill the poor thing, I went back outside to take another picture. I went behind the spider on the web and was looking at the back of it, I then quickly looked down at my phone to make sure it was pointed directly where I wanted it, instantly looked back up and it had gone! Holy moly! I dived back in the house with epic speed and shut the door. I then peered from the safety of the house (after checking the vicinity inside for rogue spider) to see where it had gone. No sign until it was back on its web a few days later.

I also booked my mini trip to Perth to explore the city and do a bit there before I head around the coast in an anti-clockwise fashion… at least that’s the idea.