from down under
dear blog, how are you? are you well? good. well, firstly, ive only just rediscovered this 5-point mission that loz has assigned me so its a bit like drat! Cos ive done most of the thingsd on it but i just dont have the pictures to prove it. shes just gonna have to be convinced by my pictures which almost show thewse things, but which are like a scene away from the actual thing. oh well.
Dear blog, the weather that we have here at the mo is the best ive experienced over the course of a week since the summer before last prob. we had a high of 35 last week - lovin it! we had quite a scary happening the other nuight when we got back from somewhere. we got back to our house and as i was cooking up some pasta for tea i heard this slightly bizzarre noise which sounded like a house alarm in the distance. so me and my mum went outside in the back garden after a bit - and boy is it massively overgrown - and discovered that the noise was actually coming from our garden, from somewhere near the ground. We decided that the thing it sounded most like was crickets, but as this sound ws rather loud, consistent and it was still light outside we were in a little bit of doubt. Anyway, we walked into the middle of the garden and the noise ws unbelievable. it was so shrill it was actually hurting my ears. The decibals must have been 120 at least - louder than the speakers on a sunday morning, no joke. I located an area which appeared to be the hub of the noise and stamped on the ground, immediately it stopped in that area but continuede elsewhere in the garden. eventually we realised there must be loads of these things all over the garden. man, it was unbelievable to think that so much noise could be generated by a virtually invisible insect no bigger than a joint of my finger. i put my head down to the ground after a bit, to see if i could actually opull away some leaves and see one, and my head started vibrating with the noise. fortunately they moved off by about 8.20 so we werent in any danger of having our sleep disturbed.
Speaking of which i had virtually no jet lag when i arrived. i was thankful for that - mainly for the 7 hours sleep i managed to get in on the way over on the planes. i was tired, sure, but not hanging like the last time i came.
seen a few things like, but the main emphasis of the holiday has been to spend time with my sister. this sometimes means not doing an awful lot cos shes got her baby like, which is obvoiusly half of the reason were there. He takes an awful lot of feeding too - like 6 times a day or something - so we cant always get out very far but hey, the suns still shining!
We have been out on a vineyard that her father-in-law works on, and plucked a handful of merlot grapes off the vines and chomped away on them, before spitting out the skins and pips. that was cool. weve also been to glenelg, which is just a short way up the coast from where we're staying - and got a parking fine for facing the wrong way! Can you believe that? it was a legal place - no lines or anything - but we were facing with our headlights towards the oncoming traffic, not that there was much in this little sidestreet. Apparently, thats technically illegal in england too, so my sister tells me!
The beach just down the road from my sisters is quite nice, well, very nice actually - seas in nice and close and the waves are a decent size too. we're planning on going to the main town centre tomorrow, and just pottering around there looking at shops and whatever things of interest they got there. kangeroo for tea tonight, yum! Anyway im off to the beach now.
Dear blog, the weather that we have here at the mo is the best ive experienced over the course of a week since the summer before last prob. we had a high of 35 last week - lovin it! we had quite a scary happening the other nuight when we got back from somewhere. we got back to our house and as i was cooking up some pasta for tea i heard this slightly bizzarre noise which sounded like a house alarm in the distance. so me and my mum went outside in the back garden after a bit - and boy is it massively overgrown - and discovered that the noise was actually coming from our garden, from somewhere near the ground. We decided that the thing it sounded most like was crickets, but as this sound ws rather loud, consistent and it was still light outside we were in a little bit of doubt. Anyway, we walked into the middle of the garden and the noise ws unbelievable. it was so shrill it was actually hurting my ears. The decibals must have been 120 at least - louder than the speakers on a sunday morning, no joke. I located an area which appeared to be the hub of the noise and stamped on the ground, immediately it stopped in that area but continuede elsewhere in the garden. eventually we realised there must be loads of these things all over the garden. man, it was unbelievable to think that so much noise could be generated by a virtually invisible insect no bigger than a joint of my finger. i put my head down to the ground after a bit, to see if i could actually opull away some leaves and see one, and my head started vibrating with the noise. fortunately they moved off by about 8.20 so we werent in any danger of having our sleep disturbed.
Speaking of which i had virtually no jet lag when i arrived. i was thankful for that - mainly for the 7 hours sleep i managed to get in on the way over on the planes. i was tired, sure, but not hanging like the last time i came.
seen a few things like, but the main emphasis of the holiday has been to spend time with my sister. this sometimes means not doing an awful lot cos shes got her baby like, which is obvoiusly half of the reason were there. He takes an awful lot of feeding too - like 6 times a day or something - so we cant always get out very far but hey, the suns still shining!
We have been out on a vineyard that her father-in-law works on, and plucked a handful of merlot grapes off the vines and chomped away on them, before spitting out the skins and pips. that was cool. weve also been to glenelg, which is just a short way up the coast from where we're staying - and got a parking fine for facing the wrong way! Can you believe that? it was a legal place - no lines or anything - but we were facing with our headlights towards the oncoming traffic, not that there was much in this little sidestreet. Apparently, thats technically illegal in england too, so my sister tells me!
The beach just down the road from my sisters is quite nice, well, very nice actually - seas in nice and close and the waves are a decent size too. we're planning on going to the main town centre tomorrow, and just pottering around there looking at shops and whatever things of interest they got there. kangeroo for tea tonight, yum! Anyway im off to the beach now.
posted by Timmay!! at 5:28 AM
4 Comments:
Tim you've still got plenty of time for your tasks.
And DO NOT put your head to the ground when you are hearing freaky noises, what if it had been a snake of some kind that then came and ate your head. GEEEEZZZZZ LOUIZZZEEEEEE.
Have fun at the beach and enjoy the kangeroo.
Sounds like you're having a great time! I agree with Loz...careful of those overgrown Ozzy gardens...Ozzy himself might jump out!!
I'm actually jealous of the kangaroo...I wanted to try it a while ago when I spotted Sainsbury's sold it...but they stopped selling it shortly after that because it turned out it was wild kanga that they were (inadvertantly) selling and not farmed...d'oh! Blog about it and let us know how it tasted :)
I'm going to try and text you now to see if you've got your phone on.
Lovely to hear from you but you do realise that this story is the sort of thing you see in a scary movie where the girl goes to explore the ghostly creak in the cellar!
PLEASE BE CAREFUL(nag)
Have a fab time!
I'm so jealous, I haven;t been to a beach in England for ages, let alone one in Australia!
Have fun!
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