Annie's Blog

while the rain continues, albeit not quite so heavily the lovely buckinghamia is flowering away and the little mickey birds indian mynahs seemed quite happy too...chirping away and flitting from branch to branch.

these two young women battled it out in the ladie's tennis final at the Australian Open tonight in Melbourne of course and Victoria Azarenka won over Maria Sharapova. A good match.

I hope you are enjoying Australia Day wherever you are It is warm and humid here with the promise of more rain around the tennis is on...the doubles were good this morning there's always the cricket on also if you are interested.. wherever you are even the kids love playing, in the backyard, at the beach, or at the cricket field but I'll definitely be watching Federer play Nadal tonight (Australian time) what a match that should be of course there'll be a lot of people at the beach today, I do hope they will be careful... and many more will be celebrating with a good Aussie barbeque yum.... but I am watching Aussie Kim (Kim Clijsters) play Azarenka at the moment in the semi finals at the Australian Open being telecast fromMelbourne...another interesting match I don't know why they still call her Aussie Kim when she is from Belgium, but I guess she has been coming here for many years, and seems to enjoy it here and do well. Apparently at 28 (and a mother) she is one of ...

on the weekend I was able to make a skirt for my daughter there was also a bit of dressing up the space commander meeting the ladybug but now there's a lot of this... I drove home in a lot of rain yesterday, there has been an awful lot more rain today...more than 2 inches here today, 8 inches (200mm)up at Caloundra and other places in South East Queensland and more predicted for tomorrow. Already of course there is flooding...prayers for those affected, especially the little family at Sippy Downs.

the indian laburnam is flowering and the buckinghamia is starting to also I'll really enjoy the buckinghamia when it is in full bloom but for the moment I'll really enjoy this one...there isn't a lot of it!

it never ceases to amaze me when a ship goes past Caloundra how close they seem as they go around the point this one is off down the passage between Bribie Island and Moreton Island to the Port of Brisbane. Still waiting for a special one to arrive...this one wasn't it, though it was supposed to arrive yesterday! Hope it won't be long. They say another week. We'll see. There's a scooter on it that a little boy is waiting for.

this was our last day at the beach we walked down to moffatt beach to buy some bread for breakfast there were plenty of people in the water already been though it was a little misty and rainy but we made it back up the hill before the rain came what a lovely holiday it was to catch up with family...from home and overseas...a great idea. We'll have to do it again.