A Fun Day

School holidays again so we thought a walk would do us good. Across the playing fields where the Kanga Cup (mini world cup?) was being played out with all the screaming Mums and Dads, and then across the bridge and onto the path.

But what did the bridge cross? A drain, so guess where the kids walked to get to Dickson?


Water Rats

That photo was taken by one of the others but you get the idea. The fun part was to place a leaf in the running water and chase it down stream.

Eventually we arrived at the library and spent an hour there, found two Goosebump books which were taken out together with a stack of other books, hope they remember to return them. Then off to maccas for lunch, chips and cones, healthy eh?



Proof that maccas doesn't really kill you :-)

Then off we went, over the road to the tradies to see the bicycle museum, but alas, it had moved and was now back at the old Darra Club but open apparantley on Wednesdays, see the Museum web page for details.

So we just wandered home, up the gutter this time, but a bit more exercise as the picture below shows.


Jumping Girl

Runway 35

Canberra's airport has been undergoing a fair bit of development, including a 600 metre extension to the southern end of runway 35 (or 17 if you are coming in from the other end)

For reasons best known to the developers, the extension was opened for bicycle riders, skateboarders or any other man powered form of transportation. My guess there were 2000 people there at 9:30am.

Anyway I rode up and down it and do declare it suitable for 737s!

 

Here I am waiting for clearance on Rwy 35. (No piano keys yet) .  

 

 

 

 

 

And here is one for the Kids 


B.E.R.T
Baby Emergency Rescue Tender

The first of July

No particular signifigance to the date, though it is a reminder that the year is half done and time is slipping by all to quickly and tax will have be started for the 53rd time.

Returned from Queensland mid Jun, totally exhausted and have gone through several stages of recovery. Today did my first "big ride" to Queanbeyan where I indulged in a gigantic breakfast. The Central Cafe there is famous for it generous sized meals. I feel good for having done it!

During the getting better stage, installed Xubuntu 6.06. It uses Xfce and it is cool but has used a bit more space than I bargained for after installing 600 megs(->2 gigs?) of compressed downloads.. This is where it stands;
Filesystem   1K-blocks      Used         Available   Use%   Mounted on
/dev/hdb5       5044156    3919988     867936    82%         /

Maybe I won't need to install much more. Have absolutely no idea why anyone would want to use (and pay for) Windows (<-Registered Trade Mark symbol there please). Will be getting a Kubuntu DVD I hope and will install that on another, larger partition. There are some advantages to using the KDE base but they are all pretty cosmetic.

The lap top I used in Queensland is now mine, after an exchange of $100 in folding money. I can now sit in front of the TV and play computers...Yikes.

The TDF starts tonight on SBS, it's inspirational, better than reading magazines and dreaming. Still want to do a big ride, Brisbane to Sydney maybe, but always can find an excuse for not doing it. Dream on I guess.