It’s hot and muggy. This temperature suits my mood, which is quite lethargic.
We’re slowly sinking into some lazy days here in Hervey Bay. Yesterday and today I spent hours down by the pool alternately working out (briefly) and reading (lengthily). The beach is just across the road but…today the water’s kind of brown, churned up by the rains and pounding surf so right now the pool is more alluring.
Hans got in a long-awaited golf game this morning after two weeks of no opportunity, and feels much better about everything.
A local bookstore is selling off new, unsold books for $3, so we picked up Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” as well as 3 others. While the books are new, other than Sarah Palin the authors are mostly unknown to us but what the heck, at $3 the books are a bargain and we’ve run out of reading material so we bit the bullet and took a chance.
I’ve probably mentioned this before, but things in Australia are generally more expensive than Canada and the U.S. Eating out is one of those more expensive pursuits and Hans and I don’t like to eat fast food. But we’ve found a fairly decent way to eat out, which is dinner at a local RSL club (Returned Serviceman’s League, I think). The clubs all have ‘pokies’, the local term for one-armed bandits, and other ways to gamble away your money. Because they are private, members only clubs, we have to sign in but there’s no cover charge, it’s just a legal formality. And of course you don’t have to gamble, you can just go in for dinner.
And for some completely unrelated trivia, P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, comes from Maryborough, just a few kilometers down the road from Hervey Bay.
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