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Location:Moculta Rd,Penrice,Australia

PLO - as in Port Lincoln, Sth Aust

Having never been to Port Lincoln before I figured a weekend away would be nice, so back in May Qantas had cheap flights, some six months later we were at Adelaide airport waiting to head to PLO.

Ok so its not an A380, but for 40 minutes in the air, it was ok, and fun. We got a drink and crakers & dip, there was no mad rush from the pax to leave the plane, luggage arrived at the terminal in minutes and you just collected it off the trailer.




Staying at an apt on the Lincoln Hwy, overlooking the bay, about a 10 minute walk into PLO.

a meander around tanunda

Whilst waiting for new tyres to be fitted to the i30 I had a wander around Tanunda

farm dayz

Stepping outside this morning, I noticed three things.  First, when shooing the chooks away from the back door with the hose - that the new ivy growing on the water tank, is a really pretty green.  Then looking over towards the barn, watching the "big cat" meander towards the house. That the pear tree is in full bloom, and whislt taking photos of the pear tree wondering "whats growing in the paddock this summer" so I braved long grass and possible snakes to take a look, and its (or will be) pea straw, which right now is a sea of green and purple.

dont go into the light - hugo

Put the bins out and took the dog for a walk up the hill, then came home again.

yo alice!

  

 






John & Don came to town for a visit from Alice Springs, here we are haing dinner with Dave and Ben, and then a quick trip to Spotlight for Don.

a wet week, a chemo week, a writting week & a holiday booked for feb!

Its official, Tim, myself and our friend Sarah are heading to Hong Kong for a week in Feb next year - Yeah!  I'm already excited, I love HK - this trip is brought to us by the fabo Ben wolf76 who now works at STA travel in Adelaide.  With recent events, I asked Sarah to do all the work with the bookings etc and since Ben now works in travel, its nice to support friends in their careers.  So thank you Ben and Sarah.



This week we have had yet more rain, and sitting at home I should have been productive but instead I've procrastinated over finishing my Uni assignment, but I have re-written one part and forwarded to the "marker" as he asked me to do - he is still in NYC and cant seem to open the document, so will get back to me next week when he is back in Sydney.  Which gives me more time to work on the second half.  I really hate having to resubmit assignments, expecially when I cant see where I have to change something.  But "mine is not to reason why" just finish the damn thing and finally get it over.  Who would have guessed that last assingment was going to take so long or be so annoying.

The white cat is almost 100% - antibiotics and varies other pills and creams have him back in the land of cat living - which means he is keen to sleep on my knee when ever I sit down, rather than under the warm air stream from the air con.  Even the black cat seems happy the other one is well enough to attack and play with.  On the dog front, as Hugo gets older his eyesight is failing, he stands there with his head cocked to one side looking, but not seeing.  Poor old bugger, in human years he is about 82 years old.

Our friends John joncub and Donovan are heading down from Alice to Adelaide for a few days, we are looking forward to catching up with them as well as seeing Ben wolf76 and Dave ozzyskip again - oh my two catchups with Dave and Ben in less than a year - the planets are aligning :-)

In other news this week, I took Tim's mum to see her oncologist on Wednesday, Dr Giri - Daph had no idea who he was, she was that sick when they first met.  But he is very happy with her progress, and started her on Chemotherapy this week.  She had received one small dose previously, but he now has her on a 6 treatment plan, one every 3 weeks.  Tim took her in on Friday, and by all accounts she did well.  She is convinced that she will not have any side effects - if thats what it takes to get her through it then all power to her.  She is champing at the bit to get out of hospital and back home, hopefully this week sometime.

Of course the news from two of our favourite cities Christchurch, and San Francisco hasnt been all that good this week, first a huge earthquake ruining some of Christchurch, and last night a huge gas leak explosing raising 50 houses in San Bruno, San Francisco. Both Tim and I are gobsmacked at the news from both cities - and wondering where else we have been we might have hexed.

If something happens in Hong Kong, I'm handing in my passport  :-)