40,000

Another grey day so I have spent some time tidying up loose ends, by that I mean stamp loose ends or just loose stamps. When you have thousands of these lying around you have to keep on top of it. Some people take every stamp that ever comes their way and place it neatly into an album and to make sure they all fit, the stamps are placed ontop of each other. There are so many crammed in they cannot even be seen and the albums are weakened by the volume.  I have just cleared some old books where multiple stamp copies are poring out onto the floor, as the book is bursting. This approach never makes sense to me. I have been using tubs to hold the overflow and I have just filled one with the Australian variety. It weighs over 6kg and I am now coming to the top of another much bigger tub holding stamps of the world. Good thing I don't collect cars.

how many aussie stamps

Calm Morning Session

We have had two days of socked in light rain, mostly enough to annoy and not enough to fill the tank.  There are some people who have arranged time to go fishing and dam the weather. The guy below was out there for hours.  After it cleared this morning I went across equipped with a few ideas. I took the rubbish bag and did two laps of the sand as a warm up. It is a clean place lately with only one bottle, one butt and a few small plastics to pickup.  I have not thrown the shot for some weeks as my feet were wrecked.  I did maybe 10 throws this time around without over doing it.  Lastly I finished off with a dunking in the water. The temperatures are still ok but the low tide would not allow for a snorkle round the rocks. 

but are there fish

Small Pain Dental

I pushed in to see the dentist because a week ago I could feel something but it was vague. He prodded and poked in the area, tapped and scraped, also applied a cold torture device to check feeling was normal. In the end there was nothing to find. OK cheap visit let me out I will see you next time. Just before you go I may as well check the rest of your mouth. OK then.  He did more pokes, cleaned some plaque, applied some fluoride and said all clear. OK I'll be going then.  There is an X-Ray we could do as one section is now two years old. Right let's be doing that then.  Bad news I am afraid. There is a tooth with a large concealed hole under a filling,  sooner rather than later it will break. You're not going anywhere overseas are you? Derr.  OK I suggest you get it pulled out and replaced by an implant tooth drilled into your gum bones. How did I go from a faint pain to a $7000 tooth replacement. 

PB CleanUp

I started this a while back and in one of those fits of energy, Debbie got years of back dated PB records seperated from the folders where I had previously filed them.  Back at the start we were selling  information on paper. So to get on board you also filled out paper forms with all your details, bank accounts, addresses no holding back.  I can remember spending a lot of time in a spreadsheet that recorded this stuff then filing it all away for a rainy day.  Well that rainy day is today.  It has all been tranferred to an online database so this paperwork has to go. Three large boxes were emptied and I literally tore the papers up for added security.  My hands need a rest.

Ride for Recovery

Debbie is trying a range of exercises in order to get some strength back after lying low for a year or so. Getting back after drugs seems to take as much mental effort as dealing with the original problem. The morning was calm and sunny so we got the bikes out for a lap of the town. The bay front was awash with boats getting out for some fishing. Elsewhere there were many dog walkers and bike riders to dodge around and as usual jams of Sunday drivers.

The Man who Died Twice

It has taken a while but I have filled in the missing book title, having jumped clear over this one previously.  The four elderly sleuths are at it again and I have now joined the dots having read book one, book three and now book two.  Bogdan has become somewhat of an enforcer for the the Thursday Murder Club and in this story they needed one.  Somewhere along the way one of these octagenarians is going to get hurt. Netflix have taken up the filming rights again with the same cast playing to this sequel and the film coming out in 2027. However the film strayed well off the storyline last time which put Bogdan in gaol but he is out and active all thru this book.

Ride Mule Save Fuel

Well I can't ride a mule but I can ride a bike especially if you only need one of the shops up the road like the chemist where the packages are always small. I took the long way round though, via the jetties and boat ramps. The whole area there and the beaches are looking good. There was a photographer setting up for that iconic shot with the YouYangs at the end of the pole line. I saw that shot as a microsoft background photo once. They got the caption wrong saying it was in the US of A.  There does not seem to be too much fuss about fuel here. We are paying $2.00 a litre but there are no queues or shortages as yet.

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