A full on sports day

 With Warren on crutches last week, he decided that he should volunteer this week but our roster was full so he went to the one closest to home. I told him that if he was pkay to run, I could fill in for him. Jyst an aside, he is a iming to do 50 parkruns in the year. No, he said he had offered so he would do it regardless. Two days later, their second bar code scanner pulled out so he and I ended up doing the scanning together.

Our day started at 5.35am when the alarmwent off, we were required tove there at 6.30am, it was a 20 minute drive for a 7am start. A ll fimished by 8am, home for breakfast and we watched some darts,four Aussies but none got thru to second round.

10.30am, we headed into Brisbane for the Davis Cup, Australia against Poland in tennis. Saw two games, won the first by our top player, lost second game in three sets.

Home by 5.15, ready to see the AFL prem finals, Lions against Warrens team. Of course he thought his team would win by three goals, I thought it would go the other way by three goals.

Wow, what an exciting match, it seesawed to anf fro with the Lions on top by 22 points, then there was a come back and it was neck and neck, only one kick in it with Lions and one of my favourite players kicking a goal with about 30 seconds to go.

Next week is the grand final, a Western Australia team against a Qld team,unheard of but how it goes.

Tomorrow afternoon is more Davis Cup on TV. The powers that be decided to take the trains offline the one that goes past the tennis centre so we had to drive in and walk a couple of kms, up a hill and down the other side.

S pr.ing cleaning.

 A few weeks ago, we started the housework. Well, we got a bit carried away and ended up doing a fairly deep clean and tidy of the living areas. It took about three hours with both of us working.

Good to see things were back in their correct place and floors and walls dusted and washed.

Funny how getting stuck into those areas gave me the incentive to continue so next was my sewing room.

I have a set of drawers in there that is attached to the wall. So far I have gobe yhrough four drawers and found things that I had forgotten about. Between us, we delivered four bags to the opp shop, two bags out to rubbish that I had kept just in case I could use them.

I did find a series of crochet squares that I had made in crochet class. I stitched them up and then crochetted around making two lap blankets for the hospital.

The six middle squares I sewed together and there were four bigger ones, I unpicked the bigger ones and used the wool to continue the pattern. I think the intent was to make a jacket for myself but I run out of puff.

I have two more middles to use. I am amazed at some of the crochet projects that I had started and put down. Two down and at least two more to go.

Shoes

 Well, Spring has arrived and with warm weather. During winter, I wear moccasin type slippers to keep my feet warm. I figured they needed a wash before putting them aside for Spring and summer.

I have a pair of slip on sneakers and another pair of fabric shoes that I bought when working in China.

The China ones I located in the back of the wardrobe a few weeks ago. I decided that I should wear them now that I found them. They have to be over ten tears old.

They are quite comfy but they dont have a tongue so they need to be pulled on.

This is the back loop to help pull them on.

Warren regularly washes his runners in the washing machine so I loaded the machine with my three pairs of fabric shoes with a couple of shed towels.

Whoops, the glue didnt last.

The soles came off! I havent put them in the bin yet, wondering if I can glue them back on. One is off completely, the other is about half off. I will ponder on it.