Marguerite
Active Member
G'day everybody.
It's Australia Day today! it's also difficult child 3's birthday, which makes him a true blue Aussie. A Vegemite kid.
We just had a small family birthday dinner for him, easy child & BF1 arrived at last and were able to stay just for the meal. They're sleeping tonight at mother in law's (not enough room for them at our place, with BF2 in the spare room). They wouldn't have stopped over, except for difficult child 3's birthday, because they have to meet their removal van in Newcastle tomorrow morning.
We had a classic Aussie Day today - went to the beach. Because we were there in the middle of the day (when the sun is at its worst) we didn't stay more than an hour or so.
We were at home relaxing, when the phone rang. It was girlfriend, calling from her uncle's catamaran. They were moored off our beach, did we want to meet up?
So we did a fast change into swimsuits and headed down. She and difficult child 1 sat on the rock and watched everyone else. difficult child 1 isn't a strong swimmer, girlfriend had already had a long swim, coming ashore - the boat had to moor a long way from the beach, the whole bay was full of boats, more coming in, most bearing Aussie flags.
At our tiny sub-beach (it's off one end of the main beach) the surf was rough but not too high. difficult child 3 & I tried some body-surfing but it was tricky with many more swimmers than usual.
One group seemed to almost fill our little beach - they had a beach umbrella up, had put an esky full of beer in the shade and had a small portable barbecue going (probably cooking lamb). They'd found a dead branch off a gum tree, tied a large flag to it and stuck it in the sand, with the flag fluttering high over the beach. It looked very appropriate.
They set up some stumps and bails and were playing cricket on the beach. difficult child 3 joined in for a while; the game was hampered a fair bit with every wave, which would inundate the pitch and almost threaten to wash the stumps out to sea. I don't think anyone was serious about keeping score! The outfield was a bit tricky - rocks in one direction, surf in the other. And if the batter had to make any runs, he either splashed to the other stumps or bogged in sand.
A very Aussie day indeed!
girlfriend swam back to her uncle's boat but later on drove to our place for dinner tonight. She was the colour of a lobster, badly sunburnt in places. difficult child 1 isn't used to the midday summer sun either, I was anointing both of them with fresh aloe vera juice.
I suspect tomorrow at church, the congregation will be a sea of sunburnt faces.
I'm off to shower away the salt before bedtime.
Enjoy your Saturday, everyone. And if you see any green and gold today, think of us Aussies - 220 years to the day since the First Fleet arrived!
Marg
It's Australia Day today! it's also difficult child 3's birthday, which makes him a true blue Aussie. A Vegemite kid.
We just had a small family birthday dinner for him, easy child & BF1 arrived at last and were able to stay just for the meal. They're sleeping tonight at mother in law's (not enough room for them at our place, with BF2 in the spare room). They wouldn't have stopped over, except for difficult child 3's birthday, because they have to meet their removal van in Newcastle tomorrow morning.
We had a classic Aussie Day today - went to the beach. Because we were there in the middle of the day (when the sun is at its worst) we didn't stay more than an hour or so.
We were at home relaxing, when the phone rang. It was girlfriend, calling from her uncle's catamaran. They were moored off our beach, did we want to meet up?
So we did a fast change into swimsuits and headed down. She and difficult child 1 sat on the rock and watched everyone else. difficult child 1 isn't a strong swimmer, girlfriend had already had a long swim, coming ashore - the boat had to moor a long way from the beach, the whole bay was full of boats, more coming in, most bearing Aussie flags.
At our tiny sub-beach (it's off one end of the main beach) the surf was rough but not too high. difficult child 3 & I tried some body-surfing but it was tricky with many more swimmers than usual.
One group seemed to almost fill our little beach - they had a beach umbrella up, had put an esky full of beer in the shade and had a small portable barbecue going (probably cooking lamb). They'd found a dead branch off a gum tree, tied a large flag to it and stuck it in the sand, with the flag fluttering high over the beach. It looked very appropriate.
They set up some stumps and bails and were playing cricket on the beach. difficult child 3 joined in for a while; the game was hampered a fair bit with every wave, which would inundate the pitch and almost threaten to wash the stumps out to sea. I don't think anyone was serious about keeping score! The outfield was a bit tricky - rocks in one direction, surf in the other. And if the batter had to make any runs, he either splashed to the other stumps or bogged in sand.
A very Aussie day indeed!
girlfriend swam back to her uncle's boat but later on drove to our place for dinner tonight. She was the colour of a lobster, badly sunburnt in places. difficult child 1 isn't used to the midday summer sun either, I was anointing both of them with fresh aloe vera juice.
I suspect tomorrow at church, the congregation will be a sea of sunburnt faces.
I'm off to shower away the salt before bedtime.
Enjoy your Saturday, everyone. And if you see any green and gold today, think of us Aussies - 220 years to the day since the First Fleet arrived!
Marg
It reminds me of how I would love to spend our Fourth of July! I'm glad a fun day was had and hope everyone sleeps well-hard to do sometimes with a bad sunburn.
! Glad you all had a great day.
