23 July – Wednesday
One might say it rained last night!!! The grass was very squishy underfoot this morning. We are constantly told by locals that there is a very complex weather system over us at the moment and it is very unseasonal. I wish it would go away.
I think my mobile phone is starting to feel is age (nearly 2) and it keeps logging itself out or erroring. Today it would not recharge, so it was back to a Telstra shop. I am getting to know all the Telstra shops in Cairns by this. A helpful lady at the Telstra shop in the local shopping centre tested both the phone and charger and it was definitely the charger not working. As I still have three months left on my current plan, she offered me a new phone/plan but it would cost me $60 to pay out the old one. A new charger would be $30. If I was within two months of the plan expiring, there would have been no penalty. Decided on a new charger, but of course, they didn’t have any – I would need to go to the Fone Zone shop. After removing the charger from the blister pack, making sure it worked and paying for it, the nice lady at Fone Zone offered me a new phone and plan because I was only three months from the end and there would be no penalty. Grrrrr
This afternoon it was off to see the Kookaburras (Australia’s hockey team) play the third, and dead, rubber in a test series with Korea. We were very impressed with the skills of both teams, very fast play. With two and a half minutes to go and Australia leading 2:1, the Korean goalkeeper decided he had had enough and walked off the ground. Just as he arrived at the gate, Korea scored a goal and it was possible to see the little wheels turning as he quickly decided he should still be guarding his goal.
During the match we spotted Jan and Richard Killack (ex Ulverstone) and caught up with them after the match. While we were in the crowd waiting for the Australians to leave the ground, one of the team came and threw his training clothing to the crowd. A shirt came in our direction and Les Cazaly flew 10 feet in the air above the 6 foot 3 inch bloke standing behind him and took a beautiful mark! I now have a very nice Asic Kookaburra shirt in the wash.
One might say it rained last night!!! The grass was very squishy underfoot this morning. We are constantly told by locals that there is a very complex weather system over us at the moment and it is very unseasonal. I wish it would go away.
I think my mobile phone is starting to feel is age (nearly 2) and it keeps logging itself out or erroring. Today it would not recharge, so it was back to a Telstra shop. I am getting to know all the Telstra shops in Cairns by this. A helpful lady at the Telstra shop in the local shopping centre tested both the phone and charger and it was definitely the charger not working. As I still have three months left on my current plan, she offered me a new phone/plan but it would cost me $60 to pay out the old one. A new charger would be $30. If I was within two months of the plan expiring, there would have been no penalty. Decided on a new charger, but of course, they didn’t have any – I would need to go to the Fone Zone shop. After removing the charger from the blister pack, making sure it worked and paying for it, the nice lady at Fone Zone offered me a new phone and plan because I was only three months from the end and there would be no penalty. Grrrrr
This afternoon it was off to see the Kookaburras (Australia’s hockey team) play the third, and dead, rubber in a test series with Korea. We were very impressed with the skills of both teams, very fast play. With two and a half minutes to go and Australia leading 2:1, the Korean goalkeeper decided he had had enough and walked off the ground. Just as he arrived at the gate, Korea scored a goal and it was possible to see the little wheels turning as he quickly decided he should still be guarding his goal.
During the match we spotted Jan and Richard Killack (ex Ulverstone) and caught up with them after the match. While we were in the crowd waiting for the Australians to leave the ground, one of the team came and threw his training clothing to the crowd. A shirt came in our direction and Les Cazaly flew 10 feet in the air above the 6 foot 3 inch bloke standing behind him and took a beautiful mark! I now have a very nice Asic Kookaburra shirt in the wash.
2 comments:
Nice. May be if Dave wore that shirt he would win the grand final this year.Shan
I like the shirt! Very nice indeed. Much better than catching something like Barry Hall's jumper.
You guys certainly have been busy - have just caught up on about a weeks worth of blogging. I take it you weren't tempted to take a quick detour to Hinchinbrook Island when you were driving past the Caldwell area? It's pretty nice, but to be honest I'm not sure what the resort there is like, or what there is to do if you're not planning on going for at least an hour or two walk. I think that you can go for a nice boat trip around the top end if the island to look at the mangrove swamps, try and find a dugong and check out some reef areas!
And that's enough wisecracks about not winning grand finals, wife of mine...
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