Blog Day 402 - 4 May 2021 - Star Wars Day

Safely back in Melbourne and catching up on my chores.

This morning I weighed myself and I was two kilos lighter than when I went away and given the eating and drinking that occurred that is quite amazing.  However I think some of the credit may go to a dodgy piece of chicken I had Sunday evening in Lakes Entrance.

In my drive to and from Broke in the Hunter Valley I travelled 2,620 kilometres and averaged about 6.2 litres per 100k which is better than most equivalent sized hybrid cars will achieve.  So take that global warming.

I took a lot of photos so will post a few each day over the next few days.


Happy campers prior to starting our wine tasting at Tyrrell's.  Tyrrell's is one of the original wineries in the Hunter Valley and is still family owned and run by the 4th or 5th generation.



Wine tasting in Tyrrell's.  The tasting room is in the a room of the original house and is over 100 years old.  We were given lots of facts and figures about the winery, most of which I have forgotten.  This room is not usually available to the public but the fellow who was in charge recognised the calibre of wine aficionado that he was dealing with and gave us special treatment.  As you can see in this photo some are taking it more seriously than others.


This was taken in the "back yard" of the house that we were staying in.  The house was in the middle of the grape vines and the olive trees.  Of an afternoon the kangaroos would come out and dine on the sweet grass around the olive trees.



This was taken at one of the wineries that we visited, not sure which one, but I reckon it would have been a pleasure to go to work each day.

Whilst on my travels I didn't take much notice of what was happening in the corona virus world apart from the fact that Australia is still doing OK and that India is going from disastrous to whatever is worse than that.

I will bring myself up to speed on the world situation over the next few days.

I am eligible to get my first virus vaccination which I will also arrange over the next few days, given the lack of community transmission I don't think that it is particularly urgent but I would rather get it sooner than later.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog day 3: Thursday 26 March 2020 Its funny to think that this time last year I was a couple of days away from heading off to Europe for 5 weeks, my how things have changed.  On that trip the only medical issues I needed to concern myself with was twisting an ankle on a cobblestone or recovering from a hangover, wouldn't want to be there now. I am wondering where the extinction rebellion people have got to, they seem to gone very quiet, maybe they are lining up in the Centrelink queues to take money from a government they despise from a society for which they have no respect. Haven't been for a walk today apart from up and down the driveway to collect the newspaper and check the letterbox.  I even excitedly opened the letter from the bank enclosing my credit card bill. Keeping in touch with people by email, SMS and phone, Leanne even suggested today that I join Facebook.  Maybe...….when hell freezes over! Catching up on my reading, and looking at inspiration...
Read more
Blog Day 522 - Sunday 05 Sept 2021 - Day 31 of Covid Lockdown V6.0 Extended   There was an interesting piece in The Australian newspaper yesterday with the headline "Catholic Health Plea to Protect Jab Objectors".  In part the article said, and I quote "Indeed Catholic teaching holds that no one should be forced to have a vaccine or be discriminated for exercising a conscientious objection". I would be interested which part of the bible discusses covid vaccinations or indeed vaccinations generally. I also like the story of the Sydney family who snuck into Victoria to visit family or friends and then snuck back into NSW using the backroads, naturally without any of the required permits or exemptions.  Everything was going hunky dory until the children of the family started boasting about their trip out of town to their mates at school.  SPRUNG! I gather by the name of the school that the family may have been of Irish extraction. In a rather rapid turnaround Victoria ...
Read more
Blog Day 589 - Tuesday 16 November 2021 - Day 18 of Covid Normal The Andrews government have back pedalled a little with their new draconian pandemic legislation.  The fine for individuals breaching the new pandemic rules has been reduced from $92,000 to $45,000 for individuals.  That is a relief, far better to be fined $45,000 than $92,000, I wonder if you could enter into a payment plan?   There is still a lot of opposition to the legislation from the most unlikely of bedfellows, including the Human Rights Commission, the Melbourne legal profession, the usual suspects of various flag waving ratbag groups and anti vaxxers as well as regular members of the public. A great day for Australia's giant leap into the space age.  Sometime over the weekend the first solid fuel, Australian designed rocket to be launched in the country since 1971 was launched somewhere in outback NSW.  This rocket in its mighty thrust into the outer reaches of the known universe reac...
Read more