I didn’t think yesterday’s post did Shorncliffe justice, so I’ve added a few more pics.
It’s a great place to chill out – especially in the late afternoon.
There’s an amazing new playground for the kids, plenty of BBQ’s, lots of shade, a wide beach, and that incredible pier you can walk along for what seems like miles!
But it’s the evening colours in the sky that I like best.
We took Skippy to Shorncliffe today. Here’s his story.
We had a great day at the beach today.
We walked along the shore for ages. Bella is such a flirt. She had to say hello to every dog we passed. I was too shy, and hid in Liz’s handbag.
When we got to where we wanted to sit, Bella and Lilly just wanted to dig holes in the sand. So Harrison and I went out on the end of an old pier and watched the sun go down.
I couldn’t think of a more relaxing way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Skippy wanted to write some more about today’s Geocaching hunt.
Being the obliging host, how could I refuse! Tell us all about it, Skippy!
We went Birdwatching and Geocaching today!
Well, Neilius calls our first visit “Birdwatching”, but I know the real story. No one could find the Geocache. They all crawled around on their hands and knees in the bushes for half an hour while I watched the birds and Bella (smart little doggie that
she is) took some photos of me.In the end, Liz told Neil that he had to go, so rather than call it a “failed Geocache hunt” he called it “Birdwatching”. Even though I was the only one looking at the lovely birds. And there are heaps of them on this wonderful suburban lake at Northlakes.
The next stop was at Clontarf – a small suburb of Redcliffe.
Neilius and his family must be mad! They were counting bolts on drink fountains and park signs, and recording numbers on lamp posts. They plugged all the numbers into a GPS, and BANG!!! out popped some co-ordinates where we found a small container full of goodies in the middle of the bush.
This family I am staying with is a little bit strange. But Bella tells me that despite that, they are a lot of fun and that I will eventually grow to love them.
We have a new guest in our household for the next few weeks. I’m very pleased to introduce you to “Skippy Kangaroo” who is a Toy Voyager.
Skippy plans to travel the world, meet someone famous, see lots of different animals, and climb a palm tree. Quite a lot of ambitions for such a small toy!
Rather than tell you about Skippy, I thought would let our intrepid explorer talk to you directly. Over to you, Skippy!
Hello Everone!
I arrived in Queensland today and will be spending a few weeks with my new hosts.
As soon as I escaped from the padded postbag, I wanted to explore this strange new place, so I bounced up stairs to the deck and watched the last rays of the sunset with Harrison.
There’s another furry creature here, Bella. She’s a maltese shih-tzu cross doggie, who tells me she’s very glad I am here. Apparently, Bella was getting tired of being the smallest animal in the house, and told me that it’s my turn to get picked up and hugged by Lilly all the time.
“I try to look pleased when Lilly picks me up all the time”, Bella confided to me, “but sometimes I find myself muttering ‘Oh no, not again!'”.
I heard some possums chattering outside last night while everyone else was asleep. Bella tells me the local possums are very naughty, and have a party every night outside her room. She yips at them but they just call her names and laugh at her.
Today, we’re all going geocaching. I promise I’ll show you some photos when we get back. Neilius tells me he’s going to try to introduce me to a travel bug, so that we can talk about our adventures.
I’m so glad Sara (my owner) rescued me from the Salvo’s!
Who would have thought I’d be a jetsetting little toy with so many people who love me!
Dammit! I have a cold, I’m as contagious as the plague, my voice is so deep I sound like I have three gonads, and I can’t go to music tomorrow.
So I did the next best thing and played a classical clarinet trio with two people I know pretty well – me and myself.
The piece is Rondo (from Divertimento IV) by Mozart.
I chose this piece because although it looks easy, the timing is a bit of a challenge. And I need to improve my timing.
Hope you enjoy it!
I thought it might be interesting to publish copies of postcards that I send and receive. Her’s the first one.
I bought this one on eBay because I love QE2. But as an added bonus, the writer got to travel on Concorde as well.
I’ve also joined PostCrossing so I’ll share what I send and receive from them also.
Click on either image for a larger version.
Oh – by the way, please send me your postcards if you’re feeling generous. Just send them to “Musings”, PO Box 30, Petrie Qld 4501, Australia.
We had a quick picnic down at the beach at Redcliffe late this afternoon.
It didn’t all go to plan – some kid’s football ended up in the middle of of our food, and splattered it everywhere. Plus we couldn’t find the geocache we were looking for.
But it was a lot of fun – really relaxing to get out of the house.
And the light was wonderful too – that lovely blue-hue that you get after sunset, which usually makes for good looking photos.
But the most fun was just watching the kids play, and not having to worry about everything.
They’re both on the right side of 40 (you know WHICH side of 40 that is don’t you?).
They’re both unique.
They both have an elegance, class and beauty which seems to improve with time.
And I love them both.
Well in different ways of course.
The floating Lizzie won’t be with us for much longer. She finishes up in October. And I’ve never actually “met” her. But I do “watch” her a lot.
But the flesh and blood Lizzie? I’m hoping we both turn 100 together. She makes my life sweet.
What a woman.
By the way, I took the photo of “my” Lizzie a few months ago on our deck one afternoon over a bottle of wine.
I took the video of QE2 from a series of webcams as she made her last transit of the Panama Canal.
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