G'day, all.
Sharon/WO, I don't envy you those temperatures. Surely you don't need the gym? Just stand outside and shiver, that should give you enough exercise for months!
Sharon/LDM, your temperatures almost sound as warm as our cooler days. We've been getting unseasonally cool summer weather, apart from the occasional hot day.
Rabbit, I hope your eye appointment goes well. Maybe you can recruit the three little pigs to clean up after themselves.
Smallworld, it's worrying when your child gets injured. I hope it is nothing more than concussion and the rest over Christmas does her some good.
Today we had a bit of a breakthrough with difficult child 3's schoolwork. We'll see if we can capitalise on it tomorrow. Basically, I need him to learn to show working, and not try to do these problems in his head. He is going to have to learn to show working as he goes further in his studies so he may as well begin now.
I rewarded him with an immediate trip to the beach, as soon as he finished his work. We have king tides at the moment, the surf was very big and the beach was almost entirely covered, at times, under white water. I sat right near the top of the beach and still got my feet wet from a freak wave.
That is not as bad as some people are getting - in Tempe (a suburb of Sydney near the airport), the king tide has submerged the street, they had boats going along the streets! The local council are now talking about raising the street level. In other parts of Sydney, the freak tides have undermined building foundations. We're fine where we are - our house is high on the hill. I do wonder how the church is getting on, though - a freak tide will deliver seaweed to the church step. The sea wall there is already partly submerged under the shifting sands of the beach.
On the beach we go to mostly (at the end of our street) we can watch as the sand gets rearranged. Right now, the rock where we usually leave our towels is partly buried under sand so it's easy for me to step off it onto the beach. Maybe by morning, it will be high and exposed again. We couldn't leave our towels there today, the waves were breaking over it. The beach had about half a dozen youths there, surfing on body boards. It was wild - waves breaking in about five different directions, doubling in height suddenly when two crests met. No wonder we call it the washing machine! It's a fragment at one end of a much bigger beach, not a place to take non-swimmers. However, not far away is a tranquil sand-floored rock pool which is ideal for babies.
Tomorrow I have to give a prize at the local school's presentation day. Then it's a fast trip out to the pediatrician, for the kids. It will be difficult child 1's last appointment with his pediatrician; once he's 25, he has to move on. I told him to bring his new wife, to meet his old doctor. I think it's funny, introducing your wife to your pediatrician...
Enjoy your Monday, everyone.
Marg