The Sunshine Coast.

So.....yesterday as I was lurking in the Man - Cave, I heard a buzzing sound. I immediately thought it was some nasty, irate beetle but it turned out to be my phone.It was strange because no one rings my 'Aussie' phone.It was Blue Care."Hello, is this Dulcie?""No, it's Nick," I said, a bit affronted that they thought I sounded like a 92 year old woman."Oh, Nick, you have respite booked for tomorrow.....I wonder if you would mind moving it to the morning?""Erm.......Do you know what? Can we just cancel it?" I said.We could.I had been thinking earlier in the week that it would be nice for us all to get out for a day this week rather than stay home watching the 'screaming bitches' at the Australian open.We leapt out of bed at 8.30 today when Ellie, the podiatrist arrived to tend Dulcie's feet. We were expecting her....just not so early.....but it meant the rest of the day was ours!We headed to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.

It was a lovely day!

Banana hunter!

Another practically sleepless, muggy night!I heard Will leave at 7.00 this morning. Jaxy starting first time after her recent nut tinkering.Dulcie was up at 8.30.I soon realised that Will had taken the car keys to school with him which meant that I couldn't use Roxy when Blue Care came for Respite later.I would just have to go out for a local walk instead.At 9 ish the phone rang......I thought she said it was Rihanna.......could she come at 11 instead of 10 for respite?......what the heck!?.......it didn't really matter.........'Ok,' I said."Hi Rihanna" I said as she came in at 11."It's Riona" she corrected me. Oops!I plugged myself into my Ipod and set off through the back streets to Woolies for bananas. Dulcie loves bananas, particularly at the moment.The Ipod was on shuffle and playing a very melancholic selection.I passed two schools......today was their first day back after the summer holidays.....the start of the new school year.I didn't care that I was dripping with sweat, listening to melancholic music in search of bananas.....I was much happier doing that than being back in school any day!Returning home I needed a shower before relieving Riona of her charge.Dulcie had a banana sandwich for lunch and I left her watching the 'screaming bitches' at the Australian Open and came down to the muggy Man - Cave.Down by the river this weekend Jen and I had sat and listened to Will and Tracy playing mandolin and guitar, respectively, together.Jen suggested we start practising with our guitars......so I did. I practised for half an hour and then did some Spanish revision for an other 30 minutes.I felt most productive.I wonder how long I will keep at it though?

'Lady of the Flies.'

We had a family barbecue yesterday here in the back garden. Wendi and Geoff, Danny, Xiaoling and Leslie came over in the afternoon.We had a lovely time sat under the pergola wafting away the flies that were trying to vomit on our lunches.While waiting for everyone to come back down for some of the cake that Danny had made specially, Dulcie grabbed the cake slice and killed a fly that landed in front of her."That' s one less," she said, laughing.Of course we had to take the cake slice in to be washed again as most of us don't like our cake with fly innards, preferring cream or ice cream instead.Someone brought back her trusty fly swat. She killed two more with it."This cost a dollar," she said, brandishing it."Never was money more well spent," I said. 

Sorry!

Cabarita Beach.

Driving back up to Brisbane today we stopped at Cabarita Beach for a dip in the sea.....as you do.