It’s been a great day.
We set out to weed the garden, clean up the pool and put down the first dose of ‘death in a can’ to deal with the roaches and spiders. y’know, for those people that don’t like the things, that might be coming to visit us soon… 😉
well, we got finished faster than we expected – so what else could we do?
yep, one of the hazards of joondalup is the roving papparazzi, who will catch you unawares and post you on the interwebs..
After a strenuous (ahem) morning, we grabbed some lunch and headed off to the skip in our ute – the recycling here puts anything in the UK to shame.
Here’ s a novel idea – rather than throwing stuff in the skip, they look at it and decide if someone else could use it… so if you want plant pots, or old wooden chairs, or any other sort of tat, you can go along to the municipal tip and help yourself – it goes to landfill eventually if nobody wants it.. cool huh?
Anyway, we then headed to IKEA for some boxes and odds and ends, and settled down to another strenuous afternoon in the pool. This time it actually was strenuous, due to my swimming practice.
Meet ‘Subbie’. He’s a sub bug, and we have two of them – a blue and a purple. Basically, you pop a battery in them, and they have a little prop on the back – they go like stink, and are pretty erratic.
Subbie here is helping me to learn to swim – basically I drop them in the water, then chase them. simple, but very effective – today I was diving to the bottom and clearing out my snorkel like a pro.
Dinner was steak from the Barbie, and a nice ice cold drink.
That’s where things went horribly, horribly wrong.
We forgot one little thing, you see.
Sunscreen.
Half a tub of nivea after sun later, and it still hurts like being dragged along behind a truck, across some salty gravel. probably.
Jen’s in a worse state than me – I guess the only consolation here is that it’s the first serious sunburn incident since we got here.
pack a hat, folks!!