1st August – Saturday
The high pressure system is obviously still stationery – this morning was rather overcast, cool and windy, clearing this afternoon with a top of 26 degrees.
The day was spent book hunting as we have nearly completed reading our stock of books. As soon as breakfast was finished, we headed out with the newspaper to check out the garage sales in the area (ably assisted by Tomtom!). First call was to the local Lutheran school, where the kindergarten were having a trash and treasure sale. Lots of toys, plus a few books on offer. As we had no idea of street locations, we simply keyed the addresses into Tomtom and hoped we wouldn’t have to do too much backtracking. Didn’t buy any more books, but we did get to see parts of Redlynch we hadn’t seen before.
Continued this afternoon at the Freshwater Primary School Fete, along with half the population of Cairns, seemingly. It was quite a big fete (not as good as Illawarra, of course) with lots of different activities for the children, plus plenty for parents to spend their money on. The cake stall was rather unusual in that the cakes appeared to have been made by the students (some of the cakes, anyway) and they were all placed in boxes handmade and decorated by the students. Some of the boxes, and cakes, were really well made, some were made with enthusiasm! I never did find out what a box of cakes cost, but they were very popular. The books were very popular as well and we bought about ten novels – if they aren’t very good, we will swap them somewhere along the way.
That about filled in the day.
The high pressure system is obviously still stationery – this morning was rather overcast, cool and windy, clearing this afternoon with a top of 26 degrees.
The day was spent book hunting as we have nearly completed reading our stock of books. As soon as breakfast was finished, we headed out with the newspaper to check out the garage sales in the area (ably assisted by Tomtom!). First call was to the local Lutheran school, where the kindergarten were having a trash and treasure sale. Lots of toys, plus a few books on offer. As we had no idea of street locations, we simply keyed the addresses into Tomtom and hoped we wouldn’t have to do too much backtracking. Didn’t buy any more books, but we did get to see parts of Redlynch we hadn’t seen before.
Continued this afternoon at the Freshwater Primary School Fete, along with half the population of Cairns, seemingly. It was quite a big fete (not as good as Illawarra, of course) with lots of different activities for the children, plus plenty for parents to spend their money on. The cake stall was rather unusual in that the cakes appeared to have been made by the students (some of the cakes, anyway) and they were all placed in boxes handmade and decorated by the students. Some of the boxes, and cakes, were really well made, some were made with enthusiasm! I never did find out what a box of cakes cost, but they were very popular. The books were very popular as well and we bought about ten novels – if they aren’t very good, we will swap them somewhere along the way.
That about filled in the day.
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