Southbank Sunday.

We spent most of the day today at the Southbank in Brisbane.First we wandered through the market, listened to the musicians and discovered the potato tornado!

I have never seen one before but what a great idea! We didn't get one but I would like to try one sometime.

We went for a swim at the 'beach' on the Southbank. The water was much cooler than the sea here and in Fiji that we have swum in recently but once we were in it was fine.

We had some lunch surrounded by ibises and then went on the Brisbane Wheel. We had a gondola all to our selves and travelled around five times. Will did not enjoy it that much and did not appreciate me rocking it when we stopped at the top.

We then wandered down to the Gallery of Modern Art. Phoebe and Will went down to the children's art area and I had a wander about the galleries.

We wandered back and had an ice cream before heading back home.

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Little Monkey!

Daddy's Girl.

We have visitors from Canberra.Today we went to the airport to collect Deranie and Phoebe, Will's daughter. They are visiting us for the weekend.Daddy has already been out in the garden building a house for the Fairies...( no comments please Steven!).They have visited Dulcie before but it is the first time that Dulcie has seen Will and Phoebe together. 

Dulcie's Birthday.

(Warning for Vegetarian readers....This post contains ‘Roast Pork’.)Dulcie is 91 today.The phone has rung all day with family and friends wishing her a happy birthday.We were up late. Julie from Blue Care was already here when we went up. We gave Dulcie our card.

You can imagine what happens when you open it....

She thought it was very funny.This evening Wendi, Geoff and Danny came for tea.Will cooked roast pork, with roasted vegetables tossed in couscous, roast potatoes and pumpkin.Wendi brought mini pavlovas, fresh fruit and cream for dessert.It was a feast.Dulcie had a lovely day. We did not play cards tonight as it was 9.00 pm when everyone left.“Good God!” she said seeing the clock, and she hurried off to bed.

"Bloody Pigweed!"

The ‘Mole’ People came today.(Actually they are the ‘Mower’ People, who cut the grass but when we first heard Dulcie talk about them we both thought she was saying ‘Mole People’...and the name stuck.)When the ‘Mole’ People had gone the, soon to be, 91 year old whirlwind was off down the steps and I found her sat on a pink plastic bag on the grass under the front steps trimming the plants.She was being quite ruthless with the secateurs and quite a pile of discarded shrubbery was building up. I wheeled the bin closer and was drawn into binning the off cuts and the next thing I knew I was handed the secateurs as some of the stems were too thick for her to cut.When I was finished I thought I had been ruthless enough but obviously had not done it as she would have and she spent another 10 minutes trimming more off.Then she started under the lowest steps and was almost lying prostrate on the grass to reach the weeds under there. I busied myself with the brush so it did not look as if I was being idle and with me around I hoped that if a neighbour happened to glance out of their window they would not come rushing out at the sight of an old lady lying awkwardly at the bottom of her steps.“It all looks good to me,” I said at last, hoping that she was finishing off but she headed off to another bed,“Bloody pigweed,” she said ripping up handfuls. I had never heard of pigweed.I helped her clear it all but then I was asked to fetch the hose pipe and she began to water the garden then the steps and then the garage windows. She ended up watering all the plants in the fernery too before she finally came in and sat down.Tonight I am off to the cinema on my own as Will is out at a staff meeting. It will be the first time I have driven into the city on my own.Ooh, er.