Piano for Two

Asher has shown her prowess with the violin, moving up to solo performances on school stage this year. Now we have the all singing, all ivory tickling duo. Not sure how this was put to music. I think they found an age old tune that fitted the words from Asher's book.  Nana kept up the motivation for a bit more practice and a good showing was produced after an hour or so.  Of course the piano could do with some tuning work as it only gets a pounding when the grandies are around.  It is a magnet for them everytime.  Take a bow.

The Games

 Tried another new author, for me at least.  What are the odds of picking up a book, judging it by its cover and then finding out it has a theme around the World Cup Soccer and Australia still has at least one game to go. That's like when I read 1984 in 1984.  Here we have yet another action character who seems to be able to do everything.  You can't ask these guys what their super power is. You have to ask what is your ordinary power?  At least there were a few casualties along the way.  This was written just a few years before COVID but then again killer viruses have always been the rage.

Insurance Time

 Yes we are now back on the road of the travel insurance claim.  It is an uphill road and we have been on it many times.  This time we are getting the help of the Travel Agent. They have already been working at it and there has been a refund from airlines and train operators.  I can never understand why some businesses give refunds and others like cruise lines and hotels just keep the money.  One problem is that I booked the insurance under an IT industry membership scheme and not with the travel agent, so they do not get their payment from the insurer. We will have to pay for this and add it to the claim.  There are also numerous doctor receipts that we have to locate.  I was having my apple a day but it did not keep the doctor away. 

Grandies Stamp of Approval

It was a very rainy day, it was also school holidays so what better time to try a stamp session with grandies.  I got two albums out that I had previously cleared and were in very good condition. I also got a tub of stamps together maybe 500 or so which got dumped on the table and spreadout. My first suggestion was look for animals and you look for birds.  This worked very well as we have now had two sessions and as well as animals and birds, there is a page for plants and flowers and also fish.  I think interest was waining for the five yar old but the seven yar old is still keen.  I will be keeping the albums here with the other books in the nook.

Flip Out

 These all running, all climbing and all bouncing places are springing up like mushrooms in Winter. No matter which one you go to they are always packed. This is a new venue for us and whoever built this string of warehouses must love these guys as they have bought out the whole row.  This place is huge and the whole thing was covered in kids. You used to just bounce around. There is more neon here than Times Square.  Asher and Estelle were all over it for two hours. There was a section that required helmets but these two need to grow some more. A good place on a wet school holiday.

Finger Mold

 Session one today was the cutting off of the cast around the finger. Now this surgeon did not want that thing to move. The finger man filled his waste bin with all the offcuts, layer after layer of padding. We got down to the actual finger which looked messy but alcohol swipes soon cleaned it up and some movement is already possible without pain.  A splint was molded out of a synthetic board that melts and reforms around any shape that you want. So instantly there is a hard shell that fits the finger perfectly which can be slipped on and off.  There are a lot of stitches still in there.

I count eight stitches

Navel Gazing

The second session today was more accurately described as "through the navel gazing". Some yar ago I was offered a film to take home as a souvenir of the extraction of my prostate. I said I did not need to see that.  So now there has been a revisited edition of that film. You could call it "prostate that was" with an appendix called "appendix that was' . So the doc is happily taking me on a tour of my insides. Here is where your prostate used to live. Look at all that scar tissue. Now I am moving your colon (:) out of the way so I can lasso what's left of the appendix.  There is a river of green muck here that is flowing down, see that.  Now watch this as I bag up the severed appendage and slip out this little hole.  He described it as acute and very fast spreading. 

The Sun has set on this saga