Fish and chips at the beach

I met my small group of friends at the park earlier this week. It was really nice sitting in the sun and chatting. It was lunchtime when I got home and I suggested to Warren that we should do F&C at the beach.

He was agreeable so off we went minus Lucy. We have often taken her but when seats need cordoned off and separated it can be difficult with her.

I parked at the small takeaway and once we had our white paper package we headed to the small park overlooking the beach. To our surprise, there were kids mucking in the water. They were having a whale of a time, in the water and throwing wet sand at each other.

I was surprised at the cost of the fish and chips, $34. We didn't like we had ordered very much but it was too much to eat and heated up became our dinner as well with a salad.

 Blue skies and sun plus I didn't have to cook.

This guy was just asking for his photo to be taken.

Generations gap

Today watching Ellen, there was a competition. Apparently in a previous show, they had a Baby boomer on and suggested that she take a photo with a digital camera and she had it back to front. I would have thought that someone from that era would have been okay but no. I checked the ages for BBs and they were born between 1947 and 196, put me slap bang in the middle.

Today they chose a millenium which I thought should have been born since 2000 but Mr Google tells me that the ages are between 26 and 40 years of age. The girl who they pulled out of the audience had graduated from uni and she looked about 20.

Anyway, they showed her three items from Baby boomer times. One was a boom box, a manual typewriter and lastly a 35mm camera.  She had a couple of guesses before she got to a boombox, the other two she did know. Then the test. She had to find a certain radio station, Ellen had to help with the aerial. With the typewriter, she had to load the paper and type a sentence putting the paper in was a challenge an trying to load the camera with film was a nightmare for her. She ended up closing the back with half the film hanging out. She did receive a 65cm tv for her five minutes of fame.

Good to know that we do have skills that not everyone has. 

Pocket scarves

I took a week off creating thing for K4BN, a charity that I knit, crochet and sew for, to make something for me.

I had read and seen these pocket scarves   and bought wool to make one, actually I bought two different lots of wool because I was undecided which one I liked better.

Just shy of the week and I had it finished, it was my own pattern and it ended up bigger than I imagined.

It is quite heavy.

The colour is more true in this pic.

As I had the other wool, I made that up as well but did make it smaller

The green one took three days and has longer tassels.

Now back to crocheting some beanies and now a squarish blanket in red grey and black.

A visit with Duncan.

Who the heck is Duncan?  Well, I discovered that Duncan or Lieutenant Duncan to give him him full title was the first guy to alight at Anzac Cove.

He seemed to be a small man and reminded me of three of my uncles who were a similar size and height. The fourth brother, who was the second born was over six foot and quite broad, the other three were around five foot four or five.

Back to Duncan, there are replicas of boats in the background posing as flower beds. At the base of them up to his statue are footsteps. Closest to the boat, they are quite deep showing that he jumped into the sand. I guess, reasonably simple to do but I was amazed at the detail. Around the area were stones with amplifier telling the stories of the landing etc. On one path, there was gun fire and sounds of marching which made Lucy move as far away as she could get from the noise.

Coolum Beach

We drove up the coast last week and walked along the boardwalk before sharing a banana split at an outdoor cafe.

This was the board walk, nice and wide. It's was a beautiful winter's day.

Fig trees

Saw this massive tree and it's roots or vines.
I thought it may have been possible to walk through it but the vines were too thick. It did throw a lot of shade though.

From a fair distance away.

The kid about to walk through was about ten.

A great mural

Wow, this mural certainly catches people's eye.

It is entitled "On top of the world".

The gardens around it were pretty impressive as well.