Weigh Station Crash

It all went so smoothly last time, not so this time.  The auto weighing pads stopped working.  We got in a queue to have the bag tags activated.  This meant a staff member scribbled orange texta all over them.  We went back to the first queue for bag weighing but was told it was another activation queue.  Getting this so far.  Please jump forward to the weighment pads.  We were glad to get out of the 200 metre queue.  Having found our way to the weigh station, they would not take our bags because more immediate flights were a priority.  So we waited on the side and eventually our flight was accepted.  No phasement mode is fully engaged as I am now in the bar sipping Mountain Goat beer.  PS I was pulled up at the screening station for a suspicious item. Turns out the hand weigher I carry has a handle that looks a bit like a gun from the wrong angle. No Phasements.

                                               PS The airport WIFI works really well here..

Airport Fare

 We have a three hour wait for our three hour flight, so 6hrs before we get there. I might be putting up some more posts at this rate.  I have checked out some of the works here.  I thought the new overpass being built may have something to do with the new train line, but I think not.  The train approach is via Airport Rd which is the newer road into here. I can also tell you a new station will be built as part of the project. I did hear rumours of a station underneath that was put in at construction time in the 70's but I guess that is too out of date.

Neither here Nor there

 I have now read a few of these Bill Bryson travel books. This one came from the Clunes Booktown fair and is the last of the books we got from it.  It is about travels in Europe and covers many places that we have also been to. There is a sameness about his books, about a haphazard travel routine and always getting into awkward situations.  We have forgotten what it is like to travel of late, but with this guy it was always churchs, museums and pubs.  He did do some walking at least.  I don't think he mentioned the seaside once.

                               One church we did go to in Copenhagan was up the outside of the steeple.

Doctor Free

 Went on yet another outing to the Docs this morning however on exiting I have no further appointments for any reason. Hooray.  The older you get the more doctors you end up seeing. It must have been back at the start of the year where a series of appointments started and they multiplied.  Not sure how long this free period will last.  It all seems well timed to go to QLD this week.  I notice masks are now removed from Tullamarine but last time I was there a lot of people were ignoring them anyway.  Even the doc acknowledged that some normalcy was returning.

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Beach Clean No 275

With a low breeze and a small amount of Sun it didn't take much to convince myself to get outside for a short beach inspection.  It has been two weeks since the last one and have been mostly cooped up with a flu bug. I have been hearing people are now preferring a Covid dose rather than this flu bug and I might agree with them. The beach clean up is never much different. I picked up many items to fill my bag again. The most spectacular was a nicely chromed tube that may have been part of a bicycle. The biggest issue was rope, at least 20 pieces. Otherwise there was the usual plastic caps, straws and wrappers. The barrel is still down there but needs to be a two person retrieval.

50000 reads

 I am continuing the isolation phase for this flu bug thing but I did go out yesterday for a birthday outing. The weather has fined up a bit ie its not raining.  This Blog has been going for some years now and the stats page has ticked over the read count of 50000.  It seems to me this is better than so called 'Likes' where you just push a button.  To register in this count, you have to go to the page and open up an article for reading.  Hooray this has been done over 50000 times for this blog.  So there must be an interest in it, which means I will need to keep a commentary going about what ever happens during any given day.  Today seems a bit slow. I can tell you on a calm Sunday in Winter, fishing boats are still out there, even kayak fishermen. Go fish.

Campbell Point House

 So at the end of a dirt road,you pull up at a huge wrought iron gateway and type in the code and proceed down a long long tree lined avenue to a water front chateau type mansion. The stables are to the right, the lake house with the horizon pool is to the left, the topiary gardens and marble statues are spread to the waters side.  The three storied mansion is dominating the centre.  No not France, it is the Bellarine Peninsular.  We arrived for High Tea at the mansion. The usual eggytine sandwiches, scones in the middle and cakes on top.  There were 36 of us in the ballroom 32 of which were female.  Now that is a different birthday outing.  

Birthday Scone