Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, everybody.
A quiet day today. I didn't go to that book launch after all - went to church though. First time in a while - the family timetable gets really busy sometimes. husband didn't go, he was busy with some work he couldn't leave.
After church we were having lunch or drinking coffee on the church verandah, watching the boats and the people at the beach. I probably should have rushed home and taken difficult child 3 to the beach but I was just too tired.
But we saw the eagle (White Breasted Sea Eagle) - it wasn't fishing, it just seemed to be checking out its range, circling around the beach a couple of times before heading back to the cliff. There's something about the way they soar, their 'fingertips' extended and slightly curled upwards as if feeling the air. We only saw one, which could mean the other is sitting on the nest. A few weeks ago we were walking near the clifftop and saw again - a single eagle.
There was a funeral yesterday for a woman who fell off the cliff last week. There was a day when difficult child 3 went to go for his walk and the police stopped him, the area was closed. There were helicopters too, probably rescue. So sad - she left a little girl and her husband. difficult child 3's best friend's mother was at the funeral (I didn't know about it) and told me all about it, showed me a photo and I realised she had attended one of my writing classes. They think she had gone to the clifftop for her usual meditation, which often involved her lying down at the cliff edge. Her husband was looking for her and was walking up the cliff path when he saw her roll off and disappear. And with our sandstone cliffs they are a sheer drop, as if someone had taken an axe to the cliff.
Last week a child's body was found, in a suitcase tossed in a lake. Found by children. Today they announced that they have arrested the child's mother, it looks like a case of shaken baby syndrome. Apparently the day the body was found CPS were knocking on the mother's door to take her children. Two weeks too late. The police had absolutely no leads, until CPS got in touch and asked if it could be their missing child (the mother had told CPS that they had already taken the child). He was two years old. The woman is in protective custody, there's a lynch mob after her.
Never a dull moment...
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg
A quiet day today. I didn't go to that book launch after all - went to church though. First time in a while - the family timetable gets really busy sometimes. husband didn't go, he was busy with some work he couldn't leave.
After church we were having lunch or drinking coffee on the church verandah, watching the boats and the people at the beach. I probably should have rushed home and taken difficult child 3 to the beach but I was just too tired.
But we saw the eagle (White Breasted Sea Eagle) - it wasn't fishing, it just seemed to be checking out its range, circling around the beach a couple of times before heading back to the cliff. There's something about the way they soar, their 'fingertips' extended and slightly curled upwards as if feeling the air. We only saw one, which could mean the other is sitting on the nest. A few weeks ago we were walking near the clifftop and saw again - a single eagle.
There was a funeral yesterday for a woman who fell off the cliff last week. There was a day when difficult child 3 went to go for his walk and the police stopped him, the area was closed. There were helicopters too, probably rescue. So sad - she left a little girl and her husband. difficult child 3's best friend's mother was at the funeral (I didn't know about it) and told me all about it, showed me a photo and I realised she had attended one of my writing classes. They think she had gone to the clifftop for her usual meditation, which often involved her lying down at the cliff edge. Her husband was looking for her and was walking up the cliff path when he saw her roll off and disappear. And with our sandstone cliffs they are a sheer drop, as if someone had taken an axe to the cliff.
Last week a child's body was found, in a suitcase tossed in a lake. Found by children. Today they announced that they have arrested the child's mother, it looks like a case of shaken baby syndrome. Apparently the day the body was found CPS were knocking on the mother's door to take her children. Two weeks too late. The police had absolutely no leads, until CPS got in touch and asked if it could be their missing child (the mother had told CPS that they had already taken the child). He was two years old. The woman is in protective custody, there's a lynch mob after her.
Never a dull moment...
Enjoy your Sunday.
Marg
