nearly got parking ticket

www.888dag.com Parked on the street in two hour zone and forgot to move it at 10am-rushed back at 11:20am thinking that a horrible ticket would be sitting on my windscreen -but "no"-lucky me the parking police were nowhere to be seen....I have now learned my lesson-thankfully without any cost-only park in a zone with no restrictions!

If we win Lotto this week

www.888dag.com I will retire! Last week had a bit of a brain explosion and spent Thursday stressing out about information I needed to receive and send by noon that day. Got information by 3pm and then realised I only needed it by noon the next day! Luckily all the stressing out on Thursday was invaluable because on Friday after returning home from morning coffee a geyser of gas was shooting up in our front yard and we were forbidden from entering until 3pm because of possibility of gas explosion-weird eh?

exploding gas pipe

www.888dag.com Hot Friday got hotter when men digging up concrete in front area to fix water leak ruptured gas pipe positioned much too near the surface....took a variety of workmen over four hours to fix it (partially) before we could get back into our house-watching a plume of gas belching upwards in our front yard was scary-spent too many hours walking around in the hot sun and worrying about faxes needing to be sent...thank goodness for a cooling ale at the pub to get the body and mind relaxed....

fingernails and toenails

www.888dag.com Years ago there were no multiple venues for having your toenails and fingernails attended to by hoards of girls in brightly coloured uniforms while you sit in a comfy looking chair.....just wondering why? and as I walk past these establishments now the numbers of women sitting in those chairs seems to be dwindling-is this a real sign of the financial crisis?

amazing recycled haute couture

www.888dag.com Found on my weekly "fix" of charity shop rummaging a truly amazing floor length golden gown with stiff petticoat and train-all for $10-now that will turn into a stunning costume for someone....

Top Gear Australia

www.888dag.com Three hours of standing around-retakes, fluffed lines, clapping, more clapping, poor sound, hot lights, make up girl dabbing presenters faces with powder, loads of people, one presenter looking very uncomfortable and trying to remember his lines, other two much more at ease-interesting to see the hoards of "crew" needed, miles of cables, equipment overload, cameras and people with important looking headsets...not a patch on the real Top Gear.....an experience but not one to be repeated!

off to Top Gear Australia taping session

www.888dag.com Very shortly...two and a half hours anticipated time at the taping-wonder if it will be fun and exciting or boring just standing around looking interested? watch this space....

seminar for older people

www.888dag.com Contributed to seminar on Wills, Powers of Attorney, Enduring Guardianship and Living Wills this morning. 30 or so mainly greying people with all their mental facilities-even one man who swims and goes the gym every day....probably in his late 70s and he looked fitter than we the speakers!

Bondi to Tamarama walk and back

www.888dag.com With coffee at Tamarama beach this morning-lovely flowers out along the cliffs and rocks-mowed grass and perfect weather-not too hot and not too cold-great start to the weekend!

walking and thinking time

www.888dag.com Walked round Centennial Park this morning-used the time to think through work stuff-I seemed to be the only person not tuned into the headphones...just wondering if people have any quiet thinking time these days as they exercise or is it all music music music?

Here comes de judge

www.888dag.com Met the judge today in East Sydney as he was off to lunch with the Senior Counsel-one degree of separation from the wheels of justice...as the cappucino greases those wheels..

mislaid a file

www.888dag.com Then it just appeared where it should have been even after I had searched in that very same place for it-weird.....must have been those gremlins 

friend's mum in hospital

www.888dag.com Went to visit her today-cant believe how lax the nursing is-they give her pills but dont stay to make sure she takes them or to make sure they dont end up on the floor-the doctor comes to answer her questions about her uncomfortable neck brace and he looked bored and disinterested for the whole two minutes he was there..maybe he was overworked and tired but he could have pretended to care for just two minutes!

Goldfish

www.888dag.com Man of the house cleaned out dirty fish pond -lots of elbow grease- now sparkling and clean -then filled it with clean water (or so we thought)-off we went to buy a goldfish or two! Not so fast...goldfish-shop-man said first you must prepare the water to take out the chemicals which would kill the fish-bought the appropriate bottle and added it to the water-need to wait two or three days before getting the new fish now....excitement is building!

Dr Who

www.888dag.com Got caught up in the Dr Who thriller on Sundays and forgot to blog! Phew-without giving anything away to those still to check it out-each episode seems to have a better cliff hanger than the week before! Sundays on ABC with captions available for those who havent yet joined the fan club!

Murder Ball Paralympics

www.888dag.com Gold medal playoff for the men-amazing work to get to the decider-nail biting-if you havent watched it yet-you must! What athletes-what skill-what a game!!

Beefeaters

www.888dag.com Dressed up in Beefeater costumes on Sunday for a Variety Bash fund raiser out west-rained on us a bit- watched lots of children's dance groups on the stage in beautiful costumes-spoke to some mums who said each costume cost them about $180 all up-the dressmakers are doing a good business as there were some kids in four different costumes for each four minute dance!

too hot today-29C!

www.888dag.com But before I wilted in the heat I had brekkie with a special little girl who has THE cutest personality....melts the heart!

Smoke and Mirrors launch

www.888dag.com Went to last night's launch of the new jewellery collection called Smoke and Mirrors-gorgeous stuff-puzzle necklaces in silver-lots of lovely people, music, food and us!

council elections

www.888dag.com Chatted to Independent, Liberal, Labour and Greens at the local library voting area today about what they wanted to achieve for Bondi in the upcoming council elections. Independent and Liberal (both ok with being filmed) just wanted to get rid of parking meters-and Labour. Labour and Greens (not happy to be filmed) wanted to help people and the environment. I know who gets my vote-even though they were scared to be filmed!