A Day In our Lives- Monday 26th September

 

I haven't done a post in a while and am having computer issues (working off Lucy’s laptop) so thought I would do a day in our lives.  I thought it was going to be a quiet day as it was school holidays.  I really  needed to get up early, unfortunately I hit snooze several times too many when the alarm went off at 6am.  This was the time I got up, not a good start to the day.

It’s a beautiful sunny morning, Milly  loves to sit out in the morning sun.

 

After breakfast a bit of cleaning and washing (always lots of washing ) was in order.

Dont think Lucy’s going to be any help today.

Its really hard to clean with Milly around she has to attack everything.

Burning  my favorite candle.  Looks a bit worse for wear

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the housework a nice shower was in order.  I love my Reclaim products.

Time for a cuppa and finish the menu planning.

Four Lists one for IGA, Woolies, Butchers and the fruit shop

Milly’s really sad because she knows she’s not coming with us and is going to get locked in the shed (she escapes all the time).  Don't worry Fred you will get some soon the promise of biscuits if Milly goes into the shed.  Fred always makes sure he gets some to

Off to Nambour to meet Lucy’s friend Rhiannon and her grandmothers at Michelles for a coffee, Rhiannon is staying at our house tonight.

They are finally fixing the road into Mapleton so for the next few months we are going to come across a lot of roadworks and yes the car windows are putrid.  A job for Lucy on the weekend.

I do my grocery shopping here and here

Got my drugs I always need these by this stage of shopping my head felt ready to explode

Then we drove out to Bli Bli to get our fruit and veg.

I know bad photos but it’s small and always busy I was feeling like a real dork so no inside photos only bad  outdoors.

 

Called into our post office,we don't get a mail service so all of Mapleton have to call in to the PO to collect their mail

Home again Home again jiggity, jiggity, jig Fred was on the footpath eating a bone that the dog food lady had given him and Tony was as always on the phone

I dare anyone to take his bone away, look at the look on his face lol

Worse thing about shopping is putting everything away. Got to love a full fridge

Time to start thinking about dinner, marinated some chicken then went outside to have a game with Milly

Tess has to be at work by 6pm,  thankfully Tony runs her down to Nambour while I get dinner

I looked into the pantry and decided I could not live with it for one more second so I started cleaning it out, not a good move at that time of the day.  I had made a start on this and it didn't take too long to get it looking good and to be able to fit things in better.  This photo is obviously during.

Despite the salads appearance it was delicious.  Balsamic Chicken and white bean salad from www.taste.com.au    After dinner the usual night time duties, washing up, making Tony’s lunch then I had to drive down and pick up Tess from work.  Got home and collapsed in front of the TV and watched an Inspector Morse show I had taped and went to bed about 12.30am. Until next time

Bye for now

Jackie

Uluru- Up Up and Away

One of my favourite things to do is to fly around Uluru and Kata Tjuta, it’s not that expensive to do.  You can go on a brief 15mins to an hour flight, we did the half hour flight.  This is the second time that I have done this and next time would really like to do the hour which includes flying over Kings Canyon, Mt Connor and Lake Amadeus. You are unable to fly over the top of Uluru and Kata Tjuta and have to fly a certain distance away from them  but that really doesn't matter.

Ready to go Tony got the front seat as usual.

Connellan Airport

Ayers Rock Resort.  Everything from camping grounds to 5 star Motels.

 

You can see the  climb where the cars are parked,

You can see the surface is full of small craters not smooth at all.

This was one of the highlights from our trip.

Bye for now

Jackie

Uluru – On top of the World

I know people have different opinions on the climbing of Uluru so this is not a right or wrong post and my views are irrelevant.  Tony, Stitch and a few of the other guys that were with us decided to climb and I must says their photo’s were wonderful. I'm sorry for what’s going to be photo overload but it’s really hard to get a handle on how huge this rock is.  Off the top of my head and I could be wrong but I think it’s about a 9km walk around the base.

  

Empty car park at the start of the climb and also the walks around Uluru. At this stage the rock was closed to climbers.  The picture below is very deceiving  it really doesn't show just how steep it is.  It’s a steep little climb up to the hand rails.

The first climbers of the day.

Tony said once they reached that top bit, it dipped then went up again, he said you thought you had reached the top but had not,  it was never ending

There's always one idiot that strays off the track, seriously what a dickhead this was so steep.

From here on  are Stitchy’s photo’s

yep it’s straight up

No where near the top just having a rest.

 

The next few photo’s taken by David Andrews.

A few more of Stitchy’s

You can see our trailer from here it’s the biggest vehicle in the car park. Lucy waited patiently for her dad to climb back down.

Everyone had a very enjoyable morning and it was only 12pm.