G'day, folks.
WFEN, I hope the weather stays clear enough for you to get to the beach.
Linda,a enjoy your birds. Even if nesting is over, there can still be a lot of youngsters to enjoy watching.
Adrienne, I'm glad you got some more peaceful work time. I hope you get "fair weather" at the end of the week!
Sharon (WO), the movies sound like fun. Back when we had our regular village film nights, "The Birds" was a very popular screening.
Sue, our kids seem to grow like grass sometimes. Here's hoping he follows trough for his appointment.
Kate, I hope your daughter isn't too jet-lagged. Our TV & radio news has been full of the festivities; tonight's TV news also showed the light show on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it looks really good.
The meeting with husband's niece never came off - which means that she wouldn't have got into the city for today's parade, either, since the parade goes right past husband's work and terminated only 100 metres away. He has no windows, so he wouldn't have seen anything - his office is like a bunker in the basement. And with all the road closures, I'm glad I didn't try driving mother in law into the city, on the off-chance of meeting up with her granddaughter.
Today was a surprisingly warm day in Sydney, although it's chilled off again tonight. At this stage there's unlikely to be ANY rain until maybe Sunday, and that won't be much, if anything. There is a very bright full moon shining tonight, I had to go out in the backyard for something and didn't need to turn the lights on. The kids won't see it in the city, we're a long way out. Kate, I'm sure your daughter is either catching up on much-needed sleep (ready for the official opening tomorrow) or exploring the city's lights tonight with the rest of the HUGE crowd. I think they shut off the Harbour Bridge light show at about 10.30 pm - that's about half an hour ago.
They tell us Sydney has had far more people arrive than were expected, which could have accounted for some of the delays. A lot arrived from Africa and the islands and hadn't brought enough warm clothing; when they were told that it's cold, they were thinking as cold as they've ever experienced, such as 25 C. Yeah, right. Try below 10 C, in the city. Colder, to the west. But an appeal went out and they've all been supplied with donated clothing and bedding. It would have been even colder on the Harbour today, as they brought in the cross and the icon. More road have been closed than we even had shut down during APEC last year. And this time, people don't mind anywhere near as much; even total atheists and non-Christians are saying, "Well, there's a good reason this time."
Australia loves people. it's politicians we dislike so intensely!
Marg