Annie's Blog

 Gosh. Now it is NOVEMBER! How time flies while having fun.  Or perhaps bring otherwise engaged ...mainly in (thankfully) minor medical procedures. Most notable being cataract surgery ..all done but waiting on new glasses!  Went to the beach the other day ..thinking I'd beat the schoolies! Almost. There were a lot of people swimming at midday on a warm day....and kids running around in school uniforms etc  https://photos.app.goo.gl/ Nn3JuFyyf5T5Ag9g9 This is a bit of a boring way to show photos! (I'll leave it here for the moment  to see if it worked ok) I will have to try to show at least one here differently! ( whew, I did it ...not sure how!! ) It has been very warm lately and as I write this we have had a very wet morning, with a little low sitting over us here on the Sunny Coast! Looking forward to some family gatherings to come in the next months!! That is me with my sunnies after surgery! Haha. Been doing some reading, a fair bit before the cataract surge...

  There has been an Anzac Day parade since I talked last also some birthday celebrations A quick visit at the Craft Cottage while popping into the church as well the zygocactus tries valiantly to flower each year! plus the usual popovers to the beach occasionally Altogether a fairly unremarkable few months, with the French Open tennis along the way!

 It's now February 2024! Christmas has gone, The Australian Open is over, and the kids have all gone back to school! I finally got to visit the beach again after letting the visitors have it to themselves over the holidays! Always a nice little trip for me, especially on a reasonable day, although today was verging on a little too warm! I didn't stop for fish and chips today, did that a week or so ago, on a rainy day with a friend! So I scurried back to get petrol and groceries, had a quick look at the craft gallery on the way home! There is not a lot of news, apart from it has been a frightful summer with too many warm days, requiring a retreat into the air-conditioning! At least we have had more rain than we were expecting, verging on flooding at times, with a cyclone or two around, mainly they stayed in the north, though rainfall effects were felt throughout the state here! Last week a trip to the beach was included in a trip to the dentist for a lovely friend! I was able to...