Collendina Report No 145

You'll be glad to know the current crop of two plovers are doing well. Seems there is  only a week to go for flight. Speaking of birds, we were attacked by a crazy seagull that persistently dive bombed. Otherwise the only other things are dodging all the new speed humps that have appeared, not parking the car on the grass and not using motorised scooters, hovers or pogo sticks. What is the collective name for a group of scooters?

Plover Proof

A propellance of scooters ?

Painting

Any house needs maintenance but a weatherboard house needs paint, roughly every 10 years and we have been around this one for 36 yar. I have done the job at least 3 times including the blow torturous effort which burned all the previous layers of paint off the boards.  Like the growth rings of a tree this house was getting thicker from the outside, until all of its growth rings were burned away.  In the latest effort, I have had no hands on. This must be another sign of the retiree.

Picasso at work

When things are tough

If it seems like you are surrounded by madness then get out side and have some fresh air.  And what better way than on yer bike. The bicycle layer on google maps is proving to be quite accurate. I did a loop today connecting the Main Yarra Trail with the Koonung Trail via the Ruffy Creek Trail. This last one is a start stop affair and I used some quiet roads in the gaps.  There were a lot of rough sections the further you go upstream on the Yarra however the Koonung Trail is a dream run with only one set of lights at Bulleen Rd.  Much better than contemplating that youth in Asia.

Swing Bridge  Finn's reserve

Michaela & Yelena

We revisited Hunky Dory. The fish and chips worked out to be $10 a head this time and those twins put away an adult share at least. We had to get there at 5:30 to beat the rush as there are still no bookings allowed and we needed a table for six.  Also this one near Puckle St does not yet have an alcohol license. Overall the service was Ok with big servings of good food.

That was a heaped tray full.

Picasa

For some years now I have been adding photos to Google maps as a way of tracing the route taken.  But from time to time the photos would stop displaying. I had been using the URL from Google Photos but these URLs can expire.  I believe these URLs are more like records in a database that can be searched and reorganised as required. In my database days the data is regularly unloaded and reloaded for efficiency.  However using Picasa Web Albums to view the same photos, this system uses a URL that references the photo with its filename. So far the URL has remained persistent. So I have just updated around a hundred URLs on all the grandparent photos I have been able to geographically place. I may have to go back to all my other maps and do the same thing using Picasa.

In my dancing coat

Port Melbourne Action

Nothing like a mid week trip to the beach. This time we bought a whole chicken and some rice salad plus a few travellers for two hours from around 5:00pm until 7:00pm.  The on shore breezes are tricky even though the temp is 29° but this does mean there is action for wind contrivances such as kite boards, kayaks and yachts.

Is that a winged keel?

Just passing

Spinaker

Uncle Jack's

There is a prominent corner in Ocean Grove that used to have a service station, which is now the Zebra restaurant. On the opposite corner the former Skinners Produce Store (1950 to 1980), later the video store (1980 to 2015), is now Uncle Jack's.  The food method was share plates and we had calamari, dumplings and sliders on three serves.  The food was good however five more servings of drinks and food kept coming to our table and sure enough this was all included in our bill.



Uncle Jack