Caboolture arbortureum

I'm not sure if that is the correct spelling but Lucy and I visited there the other day. What a great spot, it was shaping up to be a warm to hot day but because of the massive trees along the pathway it was a very pleasant walk.

Ii was that impressed that I took Warren back there and we took some bread for the ducks as well.

In throwing out the bread for the ducks there were some other visitors.

Warren took the photos and was able to capture some turtles in the water, a couple were about the size of dinner plates and there was also an eel.

There were some water lilies out as well but wouldnt you know it, the battery in the camera decided it had had enough, of course i cant remeber the last time I charged it so no pics of water lilies.

Doc Martin

We chanced upon this series awhile ago and watched a few episodes. Its funny in a bizarre way. The trouble was it was hit and miss with what was shown on TV. One day it was as if he had just arrived and the next episode he had a baby. We realised that it was being shown on two different channels so we decided to have a look online and buy the series provided it wasnt too expensive.

Warren was successful in locating the whole lot, I think seven seasons for less than $20, wow! As each season had between five and seven episodes, it makes it very reasonable.

we have had them for awhile and would watch one when we deemed therte was nothing worth watching on TV. However we have got sucked into the story and the last week we have watched one while we were sitting down to lunch. Today there was a wedding and of course anything that could do wrong did. People were coming to the see the Dr to wish him all the best for the afternoon. The Vicar arrived as he did not have the hymn list, of course the Doc couldnt have cared less about hymns and noticed the vicar was trembling, hence an examination which ended up in the vicar being carted off the hospital. The place were the reception was going to be held have plumbing issues and ended up moving the food into a marque by the church. As the father and son moved from the marque to the church, I was expecting dogs to run in and eat it, the tent/marque fell in, which Warren had predicted.

The doc managed to get another vicar who had sworn off doing weddings, first though he had to pay. The payment was to administer to the new vicar pig, he told him that he wasnt a vet but the vicar insisted. Then his drycleaned suit was mixed up, oh boy it was a comedy of errors.

At the end of it, it was although the last on that disc and Warren changed them over and started the next one. Saying to me "We cant leave it like that, we need to see what happens, dont you want to?" Of course i did and I settled down to start another scarf.

Fish and Chips on Bribie

Our Red Hat group ventured across to Bribie Island yesterday for our monthly get together. The fish and chips just near the beach are some of the best I have tasted. They will cook grilled, crumbled or battered fish and we all had a separate plate with a serve of fish, a half serve of chips and a salad.

A couple wanted grilled or battered rather than the usual crumbed and the cafe had them all packaged with individual names on them. Brilliant!

This is us in our finery enjoying a chat and the scenery. It was a warm day but as usual being at the beach a breeze was blowing and that made it very comfortable.

AFLW

Stands for Australian Football League Womens, sounds weird but they wanted to stay with AFL and needed to add the W for women is there. There was a big push last year to add women's footy to the big league and this year 2017, they will be playing a game before the mens.

We have seen a few games as they have been televised and they are good. The rules are the same but it is 16 aside rather 18 and they play for fifteen minutes each quarter as opposed to twenty five for the men and the ball is slightly smaller to cater for smaller hands.

Before the season starts there has been for many years a pre-season competition but it doesn't get televised, I guess because there is cricket and tennis commitments but the girls comp played late afternoon has been televised.

We were out on Saturday night when the two top undefeated teams played each other so we recorded it and watched it yesterday. What a match, it was on for young and old. finally Brisbane Lions won against Adelaide Crows and it was played in Adelaide too so a big coup for the girls.

Really looking forward to seeing more of the girls play. Already there are some big names coming to light, Department of Defence and Chemist Warehouse are supporting/sponsoring the teams as is the AFL itself. I think it is a good move for the game.

Placemats

I saw an idea the other day and thought was a great idea that is. This morning I acted upon it and made place mats for Maggie Two.

Again I had everything to make them as I had bought the teal silk fabric to make something else but hadn't gotten around to it. The stiffest and the colour suited this project well. The beige linen was an off cut of something I had made long ago and kept because it was a decent size. Now it has been made into pockets and serviettes.

I didnt add any lining to the inside as I wanted to be able to roll them and also want them dry reasonably quickly after washing. 

A quick little project that took less than an hour to do with no pattern, I used an existing place mat for the size, I didnt even hem the serviettes!

Knobs vs levers

We were watching QI at lunch and there was an interesting topic broached. The question was "What was deemed illegal in Canada in 2014" I think it was 2014 I know that it seemed very recent.

The answer was door knobs, strange as it may seem. Now, I got to thinking about this and I do not recall being in any house that does not have door knobs. Anyway they continued talking about it and it is because door levers are easy for people to open. Apparently some people were up in arms about it because they said that they did not have any people who were infirm who would live in the house but the law was passed.

Surprisingly in Colorado house can not have levers, the reason being?       drum roll, because of bears and other animals can open door levers.

How is that for a bit of trivia? Now I will be taking note at peoples homes to see if they have knobs or levers.

Heart Coasters

I receive emails on sewing projects and sometimes I see one that I think I would like to make. It was called heart drink coasters and the inserts were slightly different colours which I particularly liked.

It took me two days and it shouldn't have taken that long to make four 'simple" coasters. They were fiddlier than I thought. (I dont usually do fiddly!)

There was no actual pattern except the heart which i downloaded and printed off and the measurements were in inches, thats not a drama as thankfully I have a tape measure that has inches on one side and cms on the other. I made one and decided it was too small and the heart was also too small so back to the drawing board. I ended up cutting squares five and a half inches alround as apposed to the four and a half inches. I thought that any glasses would catch on the insert of the heart. I had a heart shaped small note pad so I traced around that to use.

Two pieces and sew around the heart then cut out the heart and turn in the right side. I ironed a light stiffening on the fabric.

Sew around the two pieces to hold into place.
Next the fabric for the insert and then another piece on top and sew together, then turn through.

Finished product, after sewing around the outside and the heart again.

I was thinking of making them for a small gift but no, I wouldn't make these again. Too fiddly and i dont think they are that practical, these four will be going into the caravan.