The Ascot Lot

These food truck parks are popping up.  I'm not completely convinced. This one does not have the infrastructure like the one in High St.  We used to ride to the food vans near Footscray Park. They had real grass in a parkland setting, much better than fake grass but you had to byo drinks. The cranskie in a roll was a good one.  Daniel had a RocketRobbo Cake for the birthday.

Burgers

Dirty Thirties  (Baby Poo ahead)

Beefy Baby

Travel Umbrella

For the first time we have properly used this contraption without it moving around too much.  We have occy strapped the insides and used the professional sand bag at the base. As well the two handed screw mechanism has driven it full length into the sand. It wasn't a windy day but it worked well. I also went for my first face mask swim although I had no flippers this time. It was a stop start affair but would have been around 200 metres. There were waves and waves of V shaped bombers. They would break formation on the thermals and just circle ever upward.

Photos into the Sun

Sand Bagged

Good Deed

I went for a quick bike to the Library for the last of the SGSOTW volumes on the rehire. I have all six again for the second time.  I had worked up a bit of energy for this so I grabbed a shovel and headed for the beach. There was a large teenage party a few weeks back and everything has been removed, broken tents, broken chairs etc etc.  The thing that is left is an enormous hole most likely to bury people in.  IT took me an hour to fill most of it in. An old lady was wandering past at 0.25 Km/h. She said I was doing my good deed for the day! This deed needs to last a month as it will take that long to rest my arms.

2m x 1m x ½m = 1 cubic metre of sand to shift

When is a stamp like a coin?

When it is made of Silver.  It seems the Dutch wanted to go out with a bang when Guilders were to be replaced by Euros.  So the last ever Dutch stamp to be priced in Guilders was cast in Silver. I was sifting thru my pile of stamps when my finger struck the edge of a saw blade in the pile. Turns out these were the metallic teeth of the silver stamp. Makes for a heavier envelope when one corner is weighed down by a silver stamp. 

A bit tarnished - needs some Silvo

How does your garden grow?

Out of control if not maintained. The previous residents did not pay too much attention and the original's could not keep up the effort for the growth they designed.  I have stepped up with much observation and the odd glance at the sweat being expended. It must be five days of back breaking grunt so far and there is still more. 

Cherubic Garden

Spy Photos

I was right about the round photos however there is potential to edit out the curves depending on the subject matter and it's size within the keyhole you are looking through.  The positioning of the attachment ring is critical, as this time around the main focus wheel was clamped, so only fine adjustment focusing  was possible.  I have since freed this focus dial but removed the camera to get at the media. Another trick is to use the two second timer to stop any hand shake.

Spy Cam 101

Spy Scope

I have attached the camera to the front of the spy scope and it is a very fiddly operation with the alignment of the camera in parallel with the eye piece in three dimensions.  I have taken a few photos which look completely round. The camera is still attached to the scope and will be left in place until tomorrow morning to see if the light may yield a better picture.