It Got Me!

While on holidays, I came into contact with many, many people who were carrying some kind of virus.  They were coughing and voiceless and lethargic.  Even BGWLBH was ill for a time.

I fought it as best I could by taking regular doses of Olive Leaf Extract, Manuka honey, Vitamin C, drinking lots of water, eating apples and onions.

Unfortunately during the night of my first night home, I woke up feeling like I had swallowed razor blades.

I have spent the day locked in my bedroom, hoping to keep my nasty germs away from little Chicklet ... we all know that she needs to build her immunities, but I am NOT going to be the one who causes her to feel this crappy!

Hopefully if I take it easy for the next day or two, I will get well quickly and be able to give her big kisses and cuddles again.

So my posts between now and when I'm well again, may be brief or non-existent.

Just thought I would let you know, in case there is anybody out there who cares.

I fought a good hard battle, but in the end, it got me!!

Nite all  

The End of my Holiday

Sadly, I have to farewell BGWLBH tomorrow.

I fly out early tomorrow morning and will be home by lunchtime.

I'm all packed.

I had to mail a big box home, full of most of the stuff that I bought while here.  It cost me $21 to post!!

I am also leaving behind, my big wool coat, a pair of slippers, some winter pyjamas and a tracksuit ... and STILL, I will have to sit on my suitcase to get the zipper shut!!

It has been a really great week.  Even though we did nothing spectacular, it's been so nice to spend some time with my friend.

We've laughed and whinged and bitched and gossiped and moaned and sniggered and giggled and teased and debated and argued and smiled and shared and dreamed.

I hope that we get to do it all again next year if she decides to come up and spend some holiday time with me at my end of the world.

It will be sad to say goodbye tomorrow.  It's always sad to say goodbye and there are ALWAYS tears!!  Ugh!

On the other hand ...

It will be wonderful to be back in the arms of my Adoring Husband and I am so looking forward to seeing my little family again ... Vegan Chickie, the Bare-chested Chef and little Chicklet.  

I am also looking forward to soaking up some of the warmer weather!

The weather here has ranged from a minimum of 3C degrees to a maximum of 12C degrees for the past few days (did I already mention that in another post???) and the cold is beginning to set in my bones.

It might take a day or two to completely thaw out.

Anyway, it's now midnight and I have to be up in four hours!!

Nite all.

My Little Sweetie Possum

Another trivia packed day, along with some shopping, gambling, cooking, eating and knitting.

I thought it was time to bring you some updated photos of my little sweetie possum!

Looking a little bit grumpy

But not for long!

Too cute for grumps!

Vegan Chickie has been emailing me photos every day while I've been away.  I'm looking forward to some big cuddles when I get home ... from everybody, but especially from my sweetie possum!

Pretty colours to look at

Ready to move, but just not quite sure how!

Won't take me long, just you wait and see!

Gotta make sure she gets her vitamin D every day with twenty minutes in the morning sunshine.  We'll have to cut that back to ten minutes when the weather starts to change for Summer!

She's such a cutie pitootie!

Nite all.

Trivia Queens

A few years ago, BGWLBH came on holidays with Adoring Husband and I.

At the end of the holidays, she and I decided to extend our stay an extra week and Adoring Husband returned home because he had to work.

During that week, we attended a trivia night at one of the local hotels.  It was a regular weekly event that was attended by quite a few locals who filled tables with six and eight people per team.

BGWLBH and I only had each other, so we sat at one of the tall tables and joined in the fun on our own.

By the end of the night, we were victorious!!  The two of us, on our own, defeated about six other teams!

We walked home from the hotel carrying our prizes (which were silly little tokens not worth much) and singing the Queen song 'We Are The Champions' at the tops of our voices.  We were sober!

It will always be one of the highlights in our friendship and something that we brag about to others and reminisce about with each other often.

We have always enjoyed trivia.  Our brains are full of useless information!  In our younger days, we often held trivia parties on the weekends (along with pictionary, balderdash among many other games).

Years ago, we found a trivia site online, where we competed against other people from all over the world.

BGWLBH had the fastest brain and I had the fastest fingers on the keyboard, so between us, we did pretty well and developed a bit of a reputation.

The reason I tell you all of this, is because it's been a good while since we played trivia regularly together (a good six or seven years) and today we found a new trivia site online and spent about eight hours playing trivia!

It was fun ... although I must say, we are not as fast as we used to be!

We spent a lot of time yelling things like "You know!!  That boy!!  In that movie!!  The movie with that young girl in it!!  You know!!??  Yes you DO!!"

A bit more frustrating than it once was!

If anybody out there is interested in a bit of trivia fun, try this site ...

www.sporcle.com

We've had many enjoyable trivia hours on it and expect that soon we will be Trivia Queens again!!

Nite all
 

A Bird is a Bird is a Bird.

Here we are safe n sound.

All of those lovely birds that we saw on the drive over on Friday, were nowhere to be seen on the drive home today.

The first fellow that caught our attention, drinking out of the gutter??

They were all right between the river and the road.

Stretching on tippy toes and stretching his wings!

I have a couple of photos of ducks, geese and other feathery creatures to share with you, but photographic opportunities have been rare.

Feeding time!

I do believe that this is a shag on a pole!  A goose and a galah in the background!

27 Top Notch (or crested) pigeons on the power lines. 

BGWLBH and I spent the evening playing trivia online.  She trotted off to bed at midnight and here I am trying to create a new post with a frazzled, sleepy brain!

So, at 1am, it's time for this bird to slide between the sheets and get some beauty sleep myself.

Nite all.

Shots in the Night

How convenient that our motel is situated within walking distance of Maccas!

That's how we started our day.  We walked to Maccas for breakfast.

We all slept restlessly last night.  Our motel is right on the main road and we each live in areas that have absolutely no traffic during sleeping hours, so the traffic disturbed our sleep through the night.

At one point during the night, we all three heard what we thought were gunshots.  There were about 20 shots and I heard some yelling in the distance, but then silence.

When we woke this morning, it was the first question we asked each other ... had we each heard it?

There has been nothing on the news and I found nothing online to indicate that there was any disturbance reported.

It definitely happened, but perhaps it was something innocent like a cap gun or fire crackers or any number of less sinister things.

We are right next door to the hospital, so we would have heard further commotion if it was serious!

The rest of our day was filled with a trip to the local markets early this morning, hospital visits, shopping for important stuff (I only bought a pair of socks today!), lunch, deciding to stay one more night and then dinner at Hog's Breath.

Sorely disappointed in Hog's Breath for the second time in a row (two different locations) so it's now crossed off my list of social eating establishments.  Poor and slow service.  Very average food and not reasonably priced at all for what it is.

So now BGWLBH and I are watching the end of a movie (Copycat) before hopefully falling into a deeper and more relaxing sleep than last night.  (Although the movie, Copycat, is hardly conducive for relaxation!)

Looking forward to the trip home tomorrow and hopefully getting some good photos along the way.  They will be happy day shots instead of scary shots in the night!

Nite all!